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| What is the Myers-Briggs? |
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| A personality test; not much validity |
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| Definition of personality |
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| An individual's characteristic pattern of thinking, feeling, and acting |
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| What are some of the key components of the psychoanalytic theory? |
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| Early childhood experience has a big effect, as does the unconscious mind. |
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| Unconscious psychic energy, ruled by the "pleasure principle". Tries to satisfy urges |
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| Your internalized ideas and moral principles |
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| The conscious mind, tries to balance the id and superego. Operates on the "reality principle" |
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| What are Freud's psychosexual stages? |
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| Freud proposed that there are different stages in development where a child fixates on certain erogenous zones |
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| What are some criticisms of Freud? |
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| Not testable, not much evidence. |
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| What is free association? |
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| A procedure where the patient is told to relax and say whatever comes to mind |
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| What is an Oedipus complex? |
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| A boy's sexual desires towards his mother and jealousy and hatred towards his father |
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| The process where a child incorporates his parents' values into his superego |
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| A lingering focus during a psychosexual stage? Ex. sucking the thumb from the oral stage |
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| The ego's way to reduce anxiety by distorting reality |
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| The basic defense mechanism that banishes anxiety-inducting memories and thoughts |
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| What is the collective unconscious? |
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| Jung's idea that our species has a reservoir of memories to draw from |
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| What are projective tests? |
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| A test with ambiguous stimuli, meant to expose the unconscious |
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| What is the terror-management theory? |
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| People's emotional and behavioral responses to thinking about death |
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| What are humanistic theories? |
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| Personality theories with a focus on the potential for healthy personal growth |
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| What is self-actualization? |
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| The peak of Maslow's hierarchy of needs, our want to fulfill our potential |
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| What is unconditional positive regard? |
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| An attitude of total acceptance toward another person |
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| All our thoughts and feelings about ourselves |
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| A characteristic pattern of behaviors or a disposition to feel and act |
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| What two axes can personality be measure on? |
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| Introversion-extraversion and instability-stability |
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| What is a personality inventory? |
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| Long questionnaires designed to gauge a wide range of feelings and behaviors |
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| What is the social-cognitive perspective? |
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| Behavior is the result of the interaction between a person's thinking and the social context. |
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| What is reciprocal determinism? |
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| The interacting influences of behavior, cognition, and society |
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| What is personal control? |
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| The extent to which we perceive control over the environment |
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| What is the difference between an external and internal locus of control? |
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| External locus of control means you believe that outside events decide your fate, and internal means you believe you control your own fate |
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| What is learned helplessness? |
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| The helplessness and resignation learned when unable to avoid repeated aversive events |
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| The center of personality, organizer of thoughts, feelings, and actions |
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| What is the spotlight effect? |
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| Overestimating how much people pay attention to us |
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| One's feeling of high or low self-worth |
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| What is self-serving bias? |
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| Our readiness to perceive ourselves favorably |
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| Excessive self-love and self-absorbtion |
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| What are the "Big Five" personality traits according to Costa and McCroe? |
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| OCEAN: Openness, Conscientiousness, Extraversion, Agreeableness, and Neuroticism |
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| What is the MMPI and how was it derived? |
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| It's a personality inventor that was derived by asking many people a lot of questions about themselves and selecting the questions that had different answers between groups |
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