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| according to freud we block from consciousness unacceptable or unbearably painful thoughts wishes feelings and memories the blocked material surfaces in disguised forms for example in physical symptoms dreams or slips of the tongue this unconsious blocking of unacceptable thoughts is |
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| according to freuds view of personality structure the executive system the ________ seeks to gratify the impulses of the _________ in more acceptable ways |
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| freud proposed that children incoorate parental values through a process called identification closely associated with this process is the developement of the voice of conscience the part of the personality that internalizes ideals and that freud called the |
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| according to the psychoanalytic view of development we all pass through a series of psychosexual stages such as the oral anal and phallic stages conflicts unresolved at any of these stages may lead to |
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| freud identified many defense echanisms including regression and projection all defense mechanisms distort or disguise reality and all are |
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| projective tests ask test takers to repond to an ambiguous stimulous for exmple by dectribing it or telling a story about it one well known projective test which uses inkblots as stimuli was created by |
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| according to the psychoanalytic view of development we all pass through a series of psychosexual stages such as the oral anal and In general neo freudians such as alfred adler and karen horney accepted many of freuds views but placed more emphasis on |
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| Psychodynamic theorists and therapists tend to reject freuds view that sex is the basis of personality but they would agree with freud about the |
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| existence of unconscious mental processes |
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| Sigmund freud viewed the unconscious as a reservoir of repressed and mostly unacceptable thoughts wishes feelings and memories which of the following is not part of the contemporary view of the unconscious |
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| repressed memories of anxiety provoking events |
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| Abraham maslows hierarchy of needs proposes that we first satisfy basic physiological and psychological needs then we become motivated to fulfill out potential through self actuallization maslow based his ideas on |
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| his study of healthy creative people |
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| According to carl rogers a growth promoting environment is one that offers genuineness acceptance and empathy the total acceptance rogers advocated is called |
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| unconditional positive regard |
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| The Humanistic perspective which focused on the potential for human growth and self fulfillment has influenced counseling education child rearing and pop psychology the humanistic perspective hs been so well received because |
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| its emphasis on the individual self reflects and reinforces western cultural values |
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| Trait theory describes personality in terms of characteristic behaviors or traits such as agreeableness or extraversion a pioneering trai theorist was |
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| trait theorists assess personality by developing a profile of a persons traits for ex they administer personality inventories long ?? that ask people to report their characteristic feelings and behabuors the most widely used of all personality inventories is the |
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| Hans eysenck and sybil defined personality in terms of two primary factors extraversion introversion and stability instability. Most researchers today believe that dimensions are too limiting which of the following is not one of the big five |
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| Peoples scores on personality tests are only mildly predictive of their behavior such tests best predict |
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| behavior that depends on the situation or context |
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| Albert bandura a social cognitive theorists believes that interacting with our environment involves reciprocal determinism or mutual influences among personal factors environmental factors and behavior an example of an environmental factor is |
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| the presence of books in a home |
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| When elderly patients take an active part in managing teir own care and surroundings their morale and health tend to improbe such findigns indicate that people do better when they experience |
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| an internal lovus of control |
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| Working with animals an people martin seligman studied with an attitude of passive resignation which he called learned helplessness if it has received repeated shocks and has had |
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| no control over the shocks |
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| A goal of many personality theories is to be able to predict a persons behavior in a particular situation __________ is very senitive to the way people affect nd are affected by particular situations but it says little about enduring traits |
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| Psycologist thomas gilovich demonstrated the spotlight effect by having students wear barry manilow tshirts into a room where other students were gathered the spot light effect is our tendency to |
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| overestimate others attention to and evaluation of our appearance performance and blunders |
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| Researchers have found that high self esteem is beneficial low self esteeem tends to be linked with life problems how should this link between low self esteem and life problems be interpreted |
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| the answer is not clear bc the link is correlational and does not indicate cause and effect |
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| Research inicates that peole tend to accept responibility for their successes or good qualities and blame circumstances or luck for their failures this is an example of |
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