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| The distinctive and relatively enduring ways of thinking, feeling, and acting that characterize a person's response to life situations |
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| Psychodynamic Personality Method |
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| Emphasizes the role of unconscious thoughts in personality |
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| Type and Trait Personality Method |
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| Describes behavioral dispositions |
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| Humanistic Personality Approach |
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| Emphasizes integrated personal experience |
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| Freud's Psychoanalytic Theroy |
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| Most influential theory of personality. Believed that their symptoms were related to repressed memories and feelings. Used free association and dream interpretation to uncover buried contents of the unconscious. |
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| Assumption of Frueds personality theroy |
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| unconscious forces (wishes and motives) influence behavior. |
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| the only part of personality at birth, exists totally within the unconscious mind. Operates off of pleasure principle. |
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| Has direct contact with reality, develops second after id. Operates primary at the conscious level. Uses reality principle: tests reality to decide when and under what conditions the id can safely satisfy it's needs. |
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| The last to develop, contains the traditional values and ideals of family and society. Strives to control the impulses of the id. |
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| constant struggle for control with id's impulses and ego and superego. Anxiety results from conflict, to cope the ego uses defense mechanisms. |
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| A statistical tool used to identify clusters of behaviors that are highly correlated with one another, but not with behaviors in other clusters. |
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| Proposing traits on the basis of words or concepts from our everyday language/ |
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| Openness to experience, conscientiousness, extroversion, agreeableness, neuroticism. |
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| Eysenck's Extraversion-Stability Model |
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| Proposed that personality can be understood in terms of two basic dimensions. |
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