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| Psychodynamic personality theories |
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| Freud: interplay between unconscious and conscious |
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| Freudian method of therapy |
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| release of pent-up emotion supposed to lead to healing |
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| most processing occurs in unconscious, eg with memory. |
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| Oedipus complex (for girls, Electra Complex) |
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| boys want to sleep with mothers and want to kill their fathers, at least subconsciously |
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| Stages of psychosexual development |
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1. oral. birth to 1.5 yrs. fixated on mouth.
2. anal (1.5-3 yrs)
3. phallic (3-6 yrs) play with genitals. penis envy, castration fear
4. latent (6-adolescent). suppress sexual urges
5. genital (puberty-adult). become interested in sex |
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| hedonistic, biological desires. babies are all id. |
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| who "you" are: rational aspect of mind. |
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| higher, moral, aspect of mind. developed from parents and society. |
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| defense mechanisms help people cope with disturbing memories and thoughts |
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| Overall evidence on validity |
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Jung's collective unconscious and
archetypes |
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| we have a vast store of knowledge from previous generations. we are all a part of the collective unconscious. disparate cultures tend to have the same folk stories and dream symbols |
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| Adler and "social interest" |
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| people have a desire to identify with the social group |
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| life stage in which individuals have resolved all major conflicts and are happy. |
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| personality test with pathological orientation |
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| Empirical method of MMPI development |
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| based on studies in loony bins. mentally ill patients tested and compared with family members. problem is that people |
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| MMPI’s detection of deception |
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| a few scales designed to detect malingering, deception, and filling out bogus answers |
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Cattell's personality research method and
“16 PF” |
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| Cattell went through thousands of words to find synonym clusters for personality traits, and then condensed into much smaller list of personality traits. |
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| extraversion vs introversion; neuroticism vs stability. plotted along a 2D graph with four axes. |
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| Trait theories of personality - "OCEAN" |
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Norman's Big Five Traits
-Conscientiousness
-Agreeableness
-Neuroticism
-Openness to experience
-Extroversion |
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| when somebody tells you something vague about your personality, you tend to believe it |
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| neuroticism, extraversion, agreeableness, conscientiousness, and openness to new experience |
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| recent trend is that narcissism increasing along generational lines |
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| Projective testing w/rationale |
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| Rorschach inkblot procedure |
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| projective personality technique in which someone is asked to make up a story for each picture |
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| Personality and criminal profiling |
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| ADD MORE. fairly strong personality correlation, I believe. twin studies show MZ with much higher correlations than with DZ. |
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| turing test for machine awareness |
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| according to Freud, period when a child begins to play with his or her genitals |
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| Refusal to accept a disturbing realization |
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| projecting your flaw onto others |
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| if someone makes you angry, you punch a wall or a small person instead of the person who made you angry |
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| suppression of anxious thought into subconscious |
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| revert back to child-like state |
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| overcompensate for anxious thought by going very far opposite, like the dude who doubts he's gay so he sleeps with a lot of women |
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| use sexual energy in more socially acceptable way |
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