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Personality
chapter 12
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Psychology
Undergraduate 1
03/30/2009

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five-factor model
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trait theory that explains personality in five terms
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openness, conscience, extroversion, agreeableness, neoroticism
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5 traits that make up the five-factor model
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conscious
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frued's term for thoughts or motives that a person is currently aware of or is remembering
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conscious, preconscious, unconscious
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3 levels of consciousness
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preconscious
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freud's term for thoughts or motives that can be easily brought to mind
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unconscious
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freud's term for thoughts or motives that lie beyond a person's normal awareness but that can be made available through psychoanalysis
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id
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made up of innate, biological instincts and urges
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pleasure principle
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gratification to relieve the tension
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ego
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self- out conscious identity of ourselves as persons
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reality principle
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understand and deal with objects with objects and events in the real world
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superego
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set of ethical rules for behavior
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morality principle
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violating its rule results in feelings of guilt
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defense mechanism
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the ego's protective method of reducing anxiety by distorting reality
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