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Psych 150 Chapter 03
midterm 1
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Psychology
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09/13/2007

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self
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the total integrated personality
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compensation
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principle of the relationship between the unconscious and consciousness, by which the unconscious provides what is missing from consciousness to make a complete whole
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individuation
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the process of becoming a fully developed person, with all psychic functions developed
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transcendent function
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the process of integrating all opposing aspects of personality into a unified whole
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ego inflation
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overvaluation of ego consciousness, without recognizing its limited role in the psyche
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persona
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a person's social identity
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shadow
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the unconscious complement to a person's conscious identity, often experienced as dangerous and evil
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anima
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the feminity that is part of the unconscious of every man
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animus
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the masculinity that is part of the unconscious of every woman
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personal unconscious
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that part of the unconscious derived from an individual's experience
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collective unconscious
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the inherited unconscious
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archetype
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a primordial image in the collective unconscious; an innate pattern that influences experience of the real world
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mandala
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symbolic representation of the whole psyche, emphasizing circles and/or squares
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transformation
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modification of psychic energy to higher purposes (e.g., through ritual)
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numinous
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experience of spiritual or transpersonal energies
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complexes
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emotionally charged networks of ideas (such as those resulting from unresolved conflicts)
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word association test
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method devised by Jung to reveal complexes by asking people to say whatever comes to mind when they hear a word
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amplification
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elaboration of dream images as a step toward dream interpretation
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active imagination
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technique for exploring the unconscious by encouraging waking fantasies
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synchronicity
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the acausal principle, in which events are determined by transpersonal forces instead of by causes generally understood by science
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I Ching
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ancient Chinese method of fortune-telling
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psychological type
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a person's characteristic pattern of major personality dimensions (introversion-extraversion, thinking-feeling, and sensation-intuition)
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dominant function
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a person's predominant psychological function
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auxiliary function
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the second most developed function of an individual's personality
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thinking
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psychological function in which decisions are based on logic
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feeling
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psychological function in which decisions are based on the emotions they arouse
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sensation
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psychological function in which material is perceived concretely, in detail
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intuition
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psychological function in which mmaterial is perceived with a broad perspective, emphasizing future possibilities rather than current details
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Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI)
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psycchological test for measuring the psychic functions in an individual
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