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| Buss’ study of the Big Five personality characteristics |
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| ______ determined that they are all related to essential social characteristics important for survival |
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| Personality tests that ask individuals to respond to vague, ambiguous stimuli in ways that may reveal the subject's needs, feelings, and personality traits are called _________ |
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| after 9/11, citizens became more patriotic because their mortality salience increased. This led them to work harder to defend their cultural world view., it is not surprising that |
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| Eysenck's theory of personality |
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| _________ is based on basic personality traits, differences in physiological functioning and differences in ease of conditioning. |
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| thoughts, memories, and desires |
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| According to Freud, the _____, _____, and _____ we have that we do not realize we have are in our unconscious awareness. |
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| According to Carl Jung, our _________ is the level of the unconscious mind that stores latent memory traces inherited from our ancestral past. |
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| evolutionary approach to personality |
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| The _________ suggests that various personality traits and the ability to recognize the traits in others may have contributed to reproductive fitness |
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| _________ is associated with the id |
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| secondary process thinking |
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| ________ is associated with the ego |
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| Psychodynamic personality theories |
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| __________ focus on unconscious mental forces. |
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| Openness (to experience), Conscientiousness, Extroversion, Agreeableness and Neuroticism. |
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| The "Big Five" personality traits are: |
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| aspect of personality that explains why everyone does not act the same in similar situations |
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| consistency and distinctiveness |
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| Two aspects of an individual's behavior that are central to the concept of personality are ________ and _______ |
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| Alfred Adler’s theory of personality |
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| _________ determined that striving for superiority was man’s primary motivation |
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| Humanistic psychology, as described by Rogers and Maslow |
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| __________ states that people can rise above their primitive animal heritage and that they are largely conscious and rational beings who are not dominated by unconscious, irrational conflicts. |
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| __________ believes that people are not helpless pawns of deterministic forces. |
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| _______ conducted research about personality traits and the link to the people of specific countries. Their research determined that there is no relationship between nationality and personality characteristics. |
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