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| Thoughts and feelings that answer question "who am i" |
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Maslow
Ultimate psych. need
the motivation to fulfill ones potential |
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| Unconditional Positive Regard |
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Rogers
An attitude of total acceptance towards another person |
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Theory of death related anxiety
Explores peoples behavioral and emotional responses to remninders of death |
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Most widely used projective test
10 inkblots
inner feelings |
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Thematic appreciation test
Projective test
Measure inner feelings based on stories they makeup about ambiguous scenes |
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A personality test
TAT, Rorschach
Ambiguous stimuli to trigger inner dynamics |
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Carl Jung
Concept of shared, inherited, reservoir of memory traces from our species history |
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Defense mechanism
people refuse to believe or perceive painful realities |
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| Psychoanalytic defense mechanism that shift sexual or aggressive impulses towards a less threatning more acceptable object or person |
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psycho analytic theory
Egos protective methods of reducing anxiety by unconsciously distorting reality |
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| Banishes anxiety thoughts feelings and meories from consciousness |
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| Where one regresses to a more infantile psychosexual stage. WHere some psychic energy remains fixated |
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| Ego unconsciously switches an unacceptable impulse to its opposite |
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| Disguises ones own threatening impulses by attributing them to others |
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| Offers a self-justifying explanation in place of a real, more threatening unconscious reason for one's action |
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Childhood stages of development where ids pleasure seeking energies focus on specific erogenous zones
1. Oral 0-18months
2. Anal 18-36 months
3. Phallic 3-6 years
4. Latency 6-puberty dormant sexual feelings
6. Genital (puberty and on) Maturation of sexual interests |
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| Children incorporate parents values into developing their superegos |
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| A lingering focus of pleasure seeking energies at an earlier psychosexual stage in which conflicts were unresolved |
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| A reservoir of mostly unacceptable thoughts feelings, wishes, and memories. |
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| Unconscious(Contemporary Psychologists) |
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| Information processing in which we are unaware |
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| Theory of personality that attributes thoughts and actions, unconscious motives and conflicts. the techniques used in treating psychological disorders by exposing and interpreting unconscious tensions |
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| Psychoanalytic method of exploring the unconscious by saying whatever comes to mind |
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| An individuals characteristic pattern of thinking feeling and acting |
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| A characteristic pattern of behavior or disposition to feel and act, as assesed by self-report inventories and peer reports |
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True-false questionare
respond to items
measures a wide range of feeling and behaviors
used to assess personality traits |
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minnesota multiphasic personality inventory
most widely used personality test
originally used to detect personality disorders
Also screens other things |
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| A test developed by testing a pool of items then selecting those that discriminate between groups |
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1 Conscientiousness
2 agreeableness
3 neuroticism
4 openess
5 extraversion |
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| Social cognitive perspective |
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| behavoir is influenced by interaction in peoples traits and social context |
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interaction between
behavoir
internal cognition
enviroment |
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Opposite of helplessness
percieved control over enviroment |
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| external locus of control |
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| perception that outside forces control your fate |
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| internal locus of control |
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| perceptio you control your own fat |
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hopelessness and passive resignation animals learn when unable to avoid repeated aversive events
event>percieve lack of control>Behavior |
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Study of optimal human functioning
promotes strengths and virtues that promote humans to survive |
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center of personality
organizer of thoughts feelings and actions |
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| thinking everyone is evaluating us |
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| feelings of ones own self worth |
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| A readiness to percieve oneselft favorably |
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