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| o Contention of some personality theorists, Freud for example, that one’s gender determines, to a large extent, one’s personality characteristics. |
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| o Exemplified when issues arise that have no clear solution one way or the other, and a person arbitrarily chooses one solution, thereby ending debate. |
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| o Psychological state that exists when basic hostility is repressed. It is the general feeling that everything and everyone in the world is potentially dangerous and that one is helpless relative to those dangers. |
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| o Anything parents do that undermines a child’s security. |
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| o Feeling generated in a child if needs for safety and satisfaction are not consistently and lovingly attended to by the parents. |
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| o Denying or ignoring certain aspects of experience because they are not in accordance with one’s idealized self-image. |
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| o Dividing one’s life into various components with different rules applying to the different components. |
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| o Person who uses moving toward people as the major means of reducing basic anxiety. |
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| o Strategy in which a person believes in nothing and is therefore immune to the disappointment that comes from being committed to something that is shown to be false. |
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| o Person who uses moving away from people as the major means of reducing basic anxiety. |
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| o Opposite of arbitrary rightness. The elusive person is highly indecisive. Without commitments to anything this person is seldom, if ever, wrong. |
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| o Guarding against anxiety by denying oneself emotional involvement with anything. |
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| o Belief that the causes of one’s major experiences are external to oneself. |
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| o Person who uses moving against people as the major means of reducing basic anxiety. |
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| o Fictitious view of oneself, with its list of “shoulds” that displaces the real self in the neurotic personality. |
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| o Adjustment to basic anxiety that uses the tendency to exploit other people and to gain power over them. Horney referred to the person using this adjustment technique as the hostile type. |
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| o Adjustment to basic anxiety that uses the need to be self-sufficient. Horney referred to the person using this adjustment technique as the detached type. |
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| o Adjustment to basic anxiety that uses the need to be wanted, loved, and protected by other people. Horney referred to the person using this adjustment technique as the compliant type. |
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o “Neurotic needs”
o Ten strategies for minimizing basic anxiety |
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| o Giving “good” but erroneous reasons to excuse conduct that would otherwise be anxiety provoking. Horney used this term in much the same way that Freud did. |
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| o Self that is healthy and conductive to positive growth. Although each person is born with a healthy real self, the view of this real self can be distorted by the basic evil. The basic evil causes a person to view his or her real self negatively and then attempt to escape from it. Although the neurotic views his or her real self negatively, it remains a source of potential health and positive growth. |
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| o Child’s need for security and freedom from fear that Horney believed must be satisfied before normal psychological development can occur. |
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| o Meeting of such physiological needs as those of water, food, and sleep required for a child’s biological survival. |
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| o Process of self-help that Horney believed people could apply to themselves to solve life’s problems, and to minimize conflict. |
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| o Innate tendency to strive for truthfulness, productivity, and harmonious relationships with fellow humans. |
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| o When one’s idealized self is substituted for the real self, one’s behavior is governed by several unrealistic “shoulds.” |
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