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| scientific study of behavior and mental processes |
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| outward or overt actions and reactions |
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| internal, covert activity of our minds |
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| Description, Explanation, Prediction, Control |
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| focused on structure or basica elements of the mind |
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| Wilhelm Wundt's Psychology Laboratory |
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Germany in 1879
Developed the technique of object introspection |
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| process of objectively examining and measuring one's thoughts and mental activities |
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| Wundt's student; brought structuralism to America |
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| Titchener's student; first woman to earn a Ph.D. in psychology |
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| how the minds allows people to adapt, live, work, and play |
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Started Gestalt psychology
studied sensation and perception |
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| a field focusing not only perception but also on learning, memory, thought processes, and problem solving |
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| the theory and therapy based on the work of Sigmund Freud |
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proposed that there is and unconscious mind into which we push or repress, all of our threatening urges and desires
these urges created nervous disorders
stressed important of early childhood experiences |
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the science of behavior that focuses on observable behavior only
*must be directly seen and measured |
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proposed Behaviorism
*bases on work of Pavlov
*believed phobias were learned |
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| taught to fear a white rat |
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| Seven Modern Perspectives |
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| Psychodynamic, Behavioral, Humanistic, Biopsychological, Cognitive, Sociocultural, Evolutionary |
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| Psychodynamic Perspective |
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modern version of psychoanalysis
*more focused on the development of a sense of self and the discovery of other motivations behind a person's behavior |
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Skinner studied operant condition of voluntary behavior
*Became a major force in the 20th century
*Skinner introduced the concept of reinforcement |
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*Owes far more to the early roots of psychology in the field of philosophy
*Founders-Abraham Maslow + Carl Rogers
*Held the view that people have free will |
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| the freedom to choose their own identity |
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| Achieving one's full potential or actual self |
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| Biopsychological Perspective |
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| attributes human and animal behavior to biological events occurring in the body, such as genetic influences, hormones, and the activity of the nervous system |
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| focuses on memory, intelligence, perception, problem solving, and learning |
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| Sociocultural Perspective |
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| focuses on the relationship between social behavior and culture |
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focuses on the biological bases of universal mental characteristics that all humans share
*Looks at the way the mind works and why
*Behavior is seen as having an adaptive or survival value |
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| Types of Psychological Professionals |
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| Psychiatrist, Psychoanalyst, Psychiatric Social Worker, Psychologist |
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| a medical doctor who has specialized in the diagnosis and treatment of psychological disorders |
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| either a psychiatrist or a psychologist who has special training in the theories of Sigmund Frued and his method of psychoanalysis |
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| Psychiatric Social Worker |
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| a social worker with some training in therapy methods who focuses on the environmental conditions that can have an impact on mental disorders, such as poverty, overcrowding, stress, and drug abuse |
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| a professional with a academic degree and specialized training in one or more areas of psychology |
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| system of gathering data so the bias and error in measurement are reduced |
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| Steps in the Scientific Method |
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| Perceive the ?, Form a hypothesis, test the hypothesis, draw conclusions, Report the Results |
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| tentative explanation of a phenomenon based on observations |
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watching animals or humans behave in their normal environment
*Realistic picture of behavior |
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| Disadvantages of Naturalistic Observation |
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| Observer Effect, Observer Bias |
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| tendency of people or animals to behave differently from normal when they know they are being observed |
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| a naturalistic observation in which the observer becomes a participant in the group being observed (to reduce observe effect) |
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| tendency of observers to see what they expect to see |
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| people who do not know what the research question is (to reduce observer bias) |
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| watching animals or humans behave in a laboratory setting |
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study of one individual in great detail
*Phineas Gage- Famous study |
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| researcher will ask a series of questions about the topic under study |
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| randomly selected sample of subjects from a larger population of subjects |
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| the entire group of people or animals in which the researcher in interested |
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| a measure of the relationship between two variable |
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| anything that can change or vary |
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| Correlation Coefficient (r) |
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| represents the direction of the relationship and the strength of the relationship |
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variable are related in the same direction
*as one increases the other increases |
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variables are related n the opposite direction
*as one increases the other decreases |
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| a deliberate manipulation of a variable to see if corresponding changes in behavior result, allowing the determination of cause-and-effect relationships |
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| definition of a variable of interest that allows it to be directly measured |
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| Independent Variable (IV) |
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| variable in an experiment that is manipulated by the experimenter |
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| variable in an experiment that represents the measurable response or behavior of the subjects in the experiment |
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| subjects in an experiment that are subject to the independent variable |
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| the phenomenon in which the expectations of the participants in a study can influence their behavior |
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| subjects in an experiment who are not subjected to the independent variable and who may receive a placebo treatment |
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| process of assigning subjects to the experimental or control groups randomly, so that each subject has an equal chance of being in either group |
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| tendency of the experiment's expectations for a study to unintentionally influence the results |
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| group of psychologists or their professionals who look over each proposed research study and judge it according to its safety and consideration for the participants in the study |
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| making reasoned judgement abou claim |
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| Four Basic Criteria of Critical Thinking |
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There are very few "truths" that do not need to be subjected to testing
*All evidence in not equal in quality
*Just because someone in considered to be an authority or to have a lot of expertise does not they are correct |
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| systems of explaining human behavior that are not based on or consistent with scientific evidence |
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| reading bumps on the skull |
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| analysis of personality through handwriting |
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| the unique and relatively stable way in which people think, feel, and behave |
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| value judgements of a person's moral and ethical behavior |
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| the enduring characteristics with which each person is born |
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| Four Perspectives in Study of Personality |
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| Psychoanalytic, Behavioristic, Humanistic, Trait Perspectives |
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| level of the mind in which information is available but not currently conscious |
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| level of the mind that is aware of immediate surroundings and perceptions |
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| level of the mind in which thoughts, feelings, memories, and other informations are kept that are not easily or voluntarily brought into consciousness |
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| part of the personality present at birth and completely unconscious |
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| the instinctual energy that may come into conflict with the demands of a society's standards for behavior |
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| principle by which the id functions; the immediate satisfaction of needs without regard for the consequences |
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| part of the personality that develops out of a need to deal with reality, mostly conscious, rational, logical |
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| part of the personality that acts as a moral center |
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| principle by which the ego functions; the satisfaction of the demands of the id only when negative consequences will not result |
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| part of the superego that contains the standards for moral behavior |
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| part of the superego that produces pride or guilt, depending on how well behavior matches or does not match the ego ideal |
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| Psychological Defense Mechanisms |
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| unconscious distortions of a person's perception of reality that reduce stress and anxiety |
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| psychological defense mechanism in which the person refuses to acknowledge or recognize a threatening situation |
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| psychological defense mechanism in which the person refuses to consciously remember a threatening or unacceptable event, instead pushing those events into the unconscious mind |
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| psychological defense mechanism in which a person invents acceptable excuses for unacceptable behavior |
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| psychological defense mechanism in which unacceptable or threatening impulses or feelings are seen as origination with someone else, usually the target of the impulses or feelings |
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| Four Perspectives in Study of Personality |
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| Psychoanalytic, behavioristic, Humanistic, trait perspectives |
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| Founer of the psychoanalytic movement in psych |
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| Divisions of consciousness |
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| preciousness mind,conscious mind,unconscious mind |
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| psychological defense mechanism in which a person forms an opposite emotional or behavioral reaction to the way he or she really feels to keep those true feelings hidden from self and others |
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| redirecting feelings from a threatening target to a less threatening one |
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| psychological defense mechanism in which a person falls back on childlike patterns of responding in reaction to stressful situations |
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| defense mechanism in which a person tries to become like someone else to deal with anxiety |
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| Compensation (substitution) |
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| defense mechanism in which a person makes up for inferiorities in one area by becoming superior in another area |
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| channeling socially unacceptable impulses and urges into socially acceptable behavior |
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| disorder in which the person does not fully resolve the conflict in a particular psychosexual stage, resulting in personality traits and behavior associated with that earlier stage |
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| fives stages of personality development proposed by Freud and tied to the sexual development of the child |
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| first stage occurring in the first year of life in which the mouth is the erogenous zone and weaning is the primary conflict. Id dominated |
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| second stage occurring from about 1-3 yrs of age, in which the anus is the erogenous zone and toilet training is the source of conflict. Ego develops |
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| Anal Exclusive Personality |
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| a person fixated in the anal stage who is messy, destructive, and hostile |
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| Anal Retentive Personality |
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| a person fixated in the anal stage who is neat, fussy, stingy, and stubborn |
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| part of the personality present at birth and completely unconscious (i want it now!) |
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| the instinctual energy that may come into conflict with the demands of society's standards for behavior |
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| principle by which the id functions; the immediate satisfaction of needs without regard for the consequences |
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| part of the personality that develops out of a need to deal with reality, mostly conscious, rational, logical (resolve conflict, weigh consequences) |
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| principle by which the ego functions; the satisfaction demands of the id only when negative consequences will not result |
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| part of the personality that acts as a moral center (conscience) |
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| part of the superego that contains the standards for moral behavior (Jesus, Ten Commandments) |
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| part of the superego that produces pride or guilt, depending on how well behavior matches or does not match the ego ideal |
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| psychological defense mechanisms |
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| denial, repression, rationalization, projection, reaction formation, displacement, regression, identification, compensation, sublimation |
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| psychological defense mechanism in which the person refuses to acknowledge or recognize a threatening situatioin |
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| psychological defense mechanism in which the person refuses to consciously remember a threatening or unacceptable event, instead pushing those events into the unconscious mind |
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| psychological defense mechanism in which a person invents acceptable excuses for unacceptable behavior |
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| third stage occurring from about 3-6 yrs of age, in which the child discovers sexual feelings. Superego develops |
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| situation occurring in the phallic stage in which a child develops a sexual attraction to the opposite-sex parent and jealousy of the same-sex parent |
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| defense mechanism in which a person tries to become like someone else to deal with anxiety |
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| fourth stage occurring during the school years, in which the sexual feelings of the child are repressed while the child develops in other ways |
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| sexual feelings reawaken with appropriate targets |
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| Freud's term for both the theory of personality and the therapy based on it |
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| followers of Freud who developed their own competing theories of psychoanalysis |
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| developed a theory of a collective conscious |
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| Jung's name for the unconscious mind as described by Freud |
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| Jung's name for the memories shared by all members of the human species |
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| Jung's collective, universal human memories |
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| proposed feelings of inferiority as the driving forces behind personality and developed birth order theory |
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| developed a theory based on basic anxiety and rejected the concept of penis envy |
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| anxiety created when a child is born into the bigger and more powerful world of older children and adults |
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| maladaptive ways of dealing with relationships in Horney's theory |
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| developed a theory based on social rather than sexual relationships, covering the entire life span |
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| psychological defense mechanism in which unacceptable or threatening impulses or feelings are seen as origination with someone else, usually the target of the impulses or feelings |
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| psychological defense mechanism in which a person forms an opposite emotional or behavioral reaction to the way he or she really feels to keep those true feelings hidden from self or others |
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| redirecting feelings from a threatening target to a less threatening one |
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| psychological defense mechanism in which a person falls back on childlike patterns of responding in reaction to stressful situations |
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| psychological defense mechanism in which a person tries to become like someone else to deal with anxiety |
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| Compensation (Substitution) |
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| psychological defense mechanism in which a person makes up for inferiorities in one area by becoming superior in another area |
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| channeling socially unacceptable impulses and urges into socially acceptable behavior |
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| Freuds stages of personality development |
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| oral stage, anal stage, phallic stage, latency, genital |
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| disorder in which the person doesnt fully resolve the conflict in a particular psychosexual stage, resulting in personality traits and behavior associated with that earlier stage |
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| five stages of personality development proposed by Freud and tried to the sexual development of the child |
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| five stages of personality development proposed by Freud and tried to the sexual development of the child |
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| five stages of personality development proposed by Freud and tried to the sexual development of the child |
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| first stage occuring in the first year of life in which the mouth is the erogenous zone and weaning is the primary conflict. Id dominated |
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| second stage occurring from about 1-3 of age, in which the anus is the erogenous zone and toilet training is a source of conflict. Ego develops. |
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| Anal expulsive personality |
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| a person fixated in the anal stage who is messy, destructive, and hostile |
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| Anal retentive personality |
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| a person fixated in the anal stage who is neat, fussy, stingy, and stubborn |
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| third stage occurring from about 3-6 years of age, in which the child discovers sexual feelings. Superego develops. |
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| in behaviorism, sets of well-learned responses that have become automatic |
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| a set of learned responses or habits |
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| Social Cognitive Learning Theorists |
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| theorists who emphasize the importance of both the influences of other people's behavior and of a person's own expectancies on learning |
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| learning theory that includes cognitive processes such as anticipating, judging, memory, and imitation of models |
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| Bandura's explanation of how the factors of environment, personal characteristics, and behavior can interact to determine future behavior |
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| individual's perception of how effective will be in any particular circumstance |
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| the "third force" in psychology that focuses on those aspects of personality that make people uniquely human, such as subjective feelings and freedom of choice |
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| Self-Actualizing tendency |
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| the striving to fulfill one's innate capacities and capabilities |
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| the image of oneself that develops from interactions with important, significant people in one's life |
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| archetype that works with the ego to manage other archetypes and balance the personality |
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| one's perception of actual characteristics, traits, and abilities |
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| one's perception of whom one should be or would like to be |
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| situation occurring in the phallic stage in which a child develops a sexual attraction to the opposite-sex parent and jealousy of the same-sex parent |
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| defense mechanism in which a person tries to become like someone else to deal with anxiety |
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| fourth stage occurring during the school years, in which the sexual feelings of the child are repressed while the child develops in other ways |
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| fourth stage occurring during the school years, in which the sexual feelings of the child are repressed while the child develops in other ways |
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| fourth stage occurring during the school years, in which the sexual feelings of the child are repressed while the child develops in other ways |
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| sexual feelings reawaken with appropriate targets |
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| Freud's term for both the theory of personality and the therapy based on it |
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| followers of Freud who developed their own competing theories of psychoanalysis |
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| developed a theory of a collective unconscious |
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| warmth, affection, love, and respect that come from significant others one's life |
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| Unconditional Positive Regard |
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| positive regard that is give without conditions or strings attached |
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| Conditional Positive Regard |
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| positive regard that is given only when the person is doing what the providers of positive regard wish |
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| a person who is in touch with and trusting of the deepest, innermost urges and feelings |
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| theories that endeavor to describe the characteristics that make up human personality in an effort to predict future behavior |
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| a consistent, enduring way of thinking, feeling, or behaving |
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| first developed a list of about 200 traits and believed that these traits were part of the nervous system |
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| reduced the number of traits to between 16-23 with a computer method called factor analysis |
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| aspects of personality that can easily be seen by other people in the outward actions of a person |
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| Jung's name for the unconscious mind as described by Freud |
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| Jung's name for the memories shared by all members of the human species |
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| Jung's collective, universal human memories |
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| proposed feelings of inferiority as the driving force behind personality an developed birth order theory |
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| proposed feelings of inferiority as the driving force behind personality an developed birth order theory |
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| developed a theory based on basic anxiety and rejected the concept of penis envy |
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| anxiety created when a child is born into the bigger and more powerful world of older children and adults |
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| maladaptive ways of dealing with relationships in Horney's theory |
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| Developed a theory based on social rather than sexual relationships, covering the entire life span |
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| Developed a theory based on social rather than sexual relationships, covering the entire life span |
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| in behaviorism, sets of well-learned responses that have become automatic |
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| Social cognitive learning theorists |
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| theorists who emphasize the importance of both the influences of other people's behavior and of a person's own expectancies on learning |
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| learning theory that includes cognitive processes such as anticipating, judging, memory, and imitation of models |
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| Bandura's explanation of how the factors of environment, personal characteristics, and behavior can interact to determine future behavior |
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| individual's perception of how effective will be in any particular circumstances (NOT the same as self-esteem) |
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| aspects of personality that can easily be seen by other people in the outward actions of a person |
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| the more basic traits that underlie the surface traits, forming the core of personality |
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| dimension of personality in which people tend to withdraw from excessive stimulation |
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| model of personality traits that descrive five basic trait dimensions |
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| one of the five factors; willingness to try new things and be open to new experiences |
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| the care a person give to organization and thoughtfulness of others; dependability |
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| dimension of personality referring to one's need to be with other people |
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| people who are outgoing and sociable |
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| people who prefer solitude and dislike being the center of attention |
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| the emotional style of a person that may range from easygoing, friendly, and like able to grump, crabby, and unpleasant |
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| degree o emotional instability or stability |
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| Trait-Situation Interaction |
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| the assumption that the particular circumstances of any given situation will influence the way in which a traits is expressed |
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| a field of study of the relationship between heredity and personality |
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| method of personality assessment in which the professional asks questions of the client and allows the client to answer, either in a structured or unstructured fashion |
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| tendency of an interviewer to allow positive characteristics of a client to influence the assessments of the client's behavior and statements |
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| defense mechanism involving placing, or "projecting," one's own unacceptable thoughts onto others, as if the oughts actually belonged to those other and not oneself |
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| personality assessments that present ambiguous visual stimuli to the client and ask the client to respond with whatever comes to mind |
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| the "third force" in psychology that focuses on those aspects of personality that make people uniquely human, such as subjective feelings and freedom of choice |
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| Self-actualizing tendency |
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| the striving to fulfill one's innate capacities and capabilities |
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| Self-actualizing tendency |
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| the striving to fulfill one's innate capacities and capabilities |
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| the image of oneself that develops from interactions with important, significant people in one's life |
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| the image of oneself that develops from interactions with important, significant people in one's life |
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| archetype that works with the ego to manage other archetypes and balance the personality |
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| one's perception of actual characteristics, traits, and abilities |
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| one's perception of whom one should be or would like to be |
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| warmth, affection, love, and respect that come from significant others in one's life |
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| Unconditional positive regard |
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| ppositive regard that is give without conditions or strings attached |
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| conditional positive regard |
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| positive regard that is given only when the person is doing what the providers of positive regard wish |
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| a person who is in touch with and trusting of the deepest, innermost urges and feelings |
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| projective test that uses 10 inkblots as the ambiguous stimuli |
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| Theramtic Apperception Test (TAT) |
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| projective test that uses 20 pictures of people in ambiguous situation as the visual stimuli |
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| concepts and impressions that are only valid within a particular person's perception and may be influenced by biases, prejudice, and person experiences |
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| assessment in which the professional observes the client engaged in ordinary, day-to-day behavior in either a clinical or natural setting |
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| assessment in which a numerical value is assigned to specific behavior that is listed in the scale |
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| assessment in which the frequency of a particular behavior is counted |
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| paper and pencil or computerized test that consists of statements that require a specific standardized response from the person taking the test |
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| bases on the five-factor model |
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| Myers-Briggs Type Indicator |
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| based on Jung's theory of personality types |
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| designed to detect abnormal personality |
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| theories that endeavor to describe the characteristics that make up human personality in an effort to predict future behavior |
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| theories that endeavor to describe the characteristics that make up human personality in an effort to predict future behavior |
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| a consistent, enduring way of thinking, feeling, or behaving |
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| first developed a list of about 200 traits and believed that these traits were part of the nervous system |
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| reduced the number of traits to between 16-23 with a computer method called factor analysis |
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| aspects of personality that can easily be seen by other people in the outward actions of a person |
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| aspects of personality that can easily be seen by other people in the outward actions of a person |
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| the more basic traits that underlie the surface traits, forming the core of personality |
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| five-factor model (Big Five) |
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| model of personality traits that describes five basic trait dimensions |
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| one of the five factors; willingness to try new things and be open to new expiriences |
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| one of the five factors; willingness to try new things and be open to new expiriences |
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| the care a person gives to organization and thoughtfulness of others; dependability |
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| dimension of personality referring to one's need to be with other people |
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| people who are outgoing and sociable |
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| people who are outgoing and sociable |
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| people who prefer solitude and dislike to being the center of attention |
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| the emotional style of a person that may range from easygoing, friendly, and likeable to grumpy, crabby, and unpleasent |
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| the emotional style of a person that may range from easygoing, friendly, and likeable to grumpy, crabby, and unpleasent |
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| degree of emotional instability or stability |
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| trait situation interaction |
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| the assumption that the particular circumstances of any given situation will influence the way in which a trait is expressed |
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| a field of study of the relationship between heredity and personality |
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| Four basic dimensions of personality |
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| individualism/collectivism, power distance, masculinity/femininity, uncertainty avoidance |
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| method of personality assessment in which the professional asks questions of the client and allows the client to answer, either in a structured or unstructured fashion |
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| tendency of an interviewer to allow positive characteristics of a client to influence the assessments of the client's behavior and statements |
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| defense mechanism involving placing, or "projecting" one's own unacceptable thoughts onto others, as if the thoughts actually belonged to those other and not oneself |
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| personality assessments that present ambiguous visual stimuli to the client and ask the client to respond with whatever comes to mind |
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| projective test that uses 10 inkblots as the ambiguous stimuli |
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| theramtic appreciation test (TAT) |
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| projective test that uses 20 pictures of people in ambiguous situations as the visual stimuli |
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| concepts and impressions that are only valid within a particular person's perception and may be influenced by biases, prejudice, and personal experiences. This is a problem with projective tests |
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| concepts and impressions that are only valid within a particular person's perception and may be influenced by biases, prejudice, and personal experiences. This is a problem with projective tests |
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| assessment in which the professional observes the client engaged in ordinary, day-to-day behavior in either a clinical or natural setting |
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| assessment in which a numerical value is assigned to a specific behavior that is listed in the scale |
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| assessment in which the frequency of a particular behavior is counted |
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| paper and pencil or computerized test that consists of statements that require a specific, standardized response from the person taking the test |
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| paper and pencil or computerized test that consists of statements that require a specific, standardized response from the person taking the test |
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| bases on the five factor model |
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