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psych 202
final, ch. 10
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Psychology
Undergraduate 2
05/02/2014

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what is personality
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is an individual’s unique and relatively consistent patterns of thinking, feeling, and behaving.
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what is a personality theory
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theory that attempts to describe and explain similarities and differences in people’s patterns of thinking, feeling, and behavior.
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personality theory: psychoanalytic perspective
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emphasizes the importance of unconscious processes and the influence of early childhood experience.
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personality theory: humanistic
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optimistic look at human nature, emphasizing the self and the fulfillment of a person’s unique potential.
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personality theory: social cognitive perspective
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emphasizes learning and conscious cognitive processes, including the importance of beliefs about the self, goal setting, and self-regulation.
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personality theory: trait perspective
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emphasizes the description and measurement of specific personality differences among individuals.
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Sigmund Frued, psychoanalysis
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unconscious, sexual, aggressive instinctual drives, and the effects of childhood experience on later personality developemtn
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frued's notable publications
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freud's three levels of consciousness
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unconscious, preconscious, conscious **bulk of thought emerges from unconscious (picture iceburg)
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freud's psychoanalytic three structures of personality
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id, ego, superego
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id
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most primitive, entirely enconscious, present at birth. immune to logic, values, morality, danger, and demands of outside world
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freud and eros
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frued and libido
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frued and Thanatos
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freud and pleasure principle
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freud and reality principle
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the psychosexual stages of development
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consequence of fixation
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Oedipus complex
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personality theories of neo-Freudians Carl Jung, Karen Horney, and Alfred Adler,
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