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| The unique and relatively stable ways in which people think, feel, and behave |
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| Sigmund Freud's theory of psychology |
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| Theorist behind psychoanalysis |
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| Freud's theory of personality |
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| Theorist believed that mind was divded into the preconscious, conscious, and unconscious mind. People were controlled by the unconscious. |
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| Level of the mind in which thoughts, feelings, memories, and other information are kept that are not easily or voluntarily brought into consciousness. |
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| 'If it feels good, do it.'; Part of the personality present at birth and completely unconscious. |
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| Part of the personality that develops out of a need to deal with reality, mostly conscious, rational, and logical. Relies on reality principle |
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| Part of personality that acts as a moral center, contains the conscience. |
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| part of the superego that produces pride or guilt, depending on how acceptable behavior is. |
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| Oral stage; Anal stage; Phallic stage; Latency stage; Genital stage |
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| Freud's Stage of Psychosexual Development |
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| Jung's theory of personality |
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| neo-Frudian; believed in a personal unconscious and a collective unconscious, came up with archetypes. |
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| Adler's theory of personality |
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| neo-Freudian; people all develop feelings of inferirority when comparing themselves to the more powerful in their world. |
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| Erikson's Theory of Personality |
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| neu-Freudian; focused his emphasis on the social relationships that are important at every stage of life. Eight psychosocial stages. |
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| Focuses on aspects of personality that make people uniquely human, such as subjective feelings and freedom of choice. |
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| Unconditional positive regard |
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| Positive regard that is given without condition or strings attached. |
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| Conditional positive regard |
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| Positive regard that is given only when the person is doing what the providers of positive regard wish. |
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Trait theoriest who believed traits were wired into the nervous system to guide one's behavior across situations.
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| Opennes; Conscientiousness; Extraversion; Agreeableness; Neuroticism |
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The Big Five Personality theory
(Hint: OCEAN) |
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| Examples of projective tests |
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| Rorschach Inkblots, Thematic Apperception Test (TAT), Senctence completion test, |
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| Personality assesments that present ambiguous visual stimuli to the client and ask the client to respond with whatever comes to mind. |
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| Paper and pencil or computerized test that consists of statements that require a specific, standardized response from the person taking the test. |
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| Gardner's theory of intelligence |
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| Intelligence theorist; Believed in mulitiple intelligences. Originally listed seven different kinds of intelligence but later added an eighth and ninth. |
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| The tendency of a test to produce the same scores again and again each time it is given to the same people |
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| The degree to which a test actually measures what it's supposed to measure |
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| Mild (55-70); Moderate (40-55); Severe (25-40); Profound (below 25) |
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| Classificaitons of Developmental Delay |
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| "Termites"; Boys and girls who were gifted and tested. Found to be socially well adjusted, good leaders, above average in height, weight, and physical attractiveness, turned out to be very good adults too. |
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| Terman's Study on Gifted Intelligence |
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| Mental retardation resulting of physical conditions such as severe malnourishment, may be possible to improve. |
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