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| The unique and relatively enduring set of behaviors, feelings, thoughts, and motives that characterize an individual. |
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| The point at which a person moves from not having a particular response to having one. |
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| A disposition to behave consistently in a particular way. |
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| Quantitative trait loci approach |
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| A technique in behavioral genetics that looks for th location on genes that might e associated with particular behaviors. |
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| Freud's term for the sense of self; the pat of the mind that operates on the "reality principle." |
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| The level of consciousness containing all drives, urges, and instincts that are outside awareness but nonetheless motivate most behavior. |
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| Freud's term for the seat of impulse and desire; the pleasure-seeking part of our personality. |
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| Freud's term for the part of the mind that monitors behavior and evaluates it in terms of right and wrong the conscience. |
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| Unconscious stretegies the mind uses to protect itself from anxiety by denying and distorting reality in some way. |
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| A defense mechanism that turns an unpleasant idea, feeling, or impulse into its opposite. |
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| A defense mechanism in which a socially unacceptable impulse is expressed in a socially acceptable way. |
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| Defense mechanism for keeping unpleasant thoughts, feelings, or impulses out of consciousness. |
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| A defense mechanism in which people deny particular ideas, feelings, or impulses and project them onto others. |
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| Psychosexual stage theory |
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| Freud's stages of personality development;in different stages a different region of the body's is most erogenous. |
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| According to Adler, the major drive behind all behavior, whereby humans naturally strive to overcome their physical and psychological deficiencies. |
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| A defense mechanism whereby a person continues to be concerned and even preoccupid with earlier stages of development. |
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| An unhealthy need to dominate of upstage others as a way of compensating for feelings of deficiency. |
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| According to Jung, the shared experiences of our ancestors that have been passed down from generation to generation. |
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| According to Jung, all our repressed and hidden thoughts, feelings, and motives. |
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| Ancient of archaic images that result from common ancestral experiences. |
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| According to Jung, the female part of the female personality. |
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| According to Jung, the male part of the female personality. |
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| Unconditional positive regard |
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| Acceptance of another person regardless of his or her behavior. |
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| Big five or five factor model |
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| Theory of personality, that includes five dimensions:open-ness to experience, conscientiousness, extraversion, agreeableness, and neuroticism. |
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| The essence of personality: the big five personality dimensions plus talents, aptitudes and cognitive abilities. |
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| Level of activation in the brain. |
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| Measure of how much agreement there is in ratings when using two or more raters of coders to rate personality or other behaviors. |
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| Thematic Apperception Test |
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| A projective test in which the participant is presented with a series of picture cards and asked to tell a story about what is going on in the scene, |
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| Personality questionaires |
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| Self-report instruments on which respondent indicate the extent to which they agree of disagree which a series of statements as they apply to their personality. |
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| Personality assessment in which the participant is presented with a vague stimulus or situation and asked to interpret it or tell a story about what they see. |
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| A projective test in which the participant is asked to respond to a series of ambiguous inkblots. |
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| Rational (face valid) method |
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| A method for developing questionnaire items that involves using reason or theory to come up with a question. |
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| A method for developing questionnaire items that focuses on including questions that characterize the group the questionnaire is intended to distinguish. |
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