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| an individual's characteristic pattern of thinking, feeling, and acting. |
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| in psychoanalysis, a method od exploring the unconscious in which in which the person relaxes and says whatever come sot mind, no matter how trivial or embarrassing. |
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| according to Freud, this is a reservoir of mostly unacceptable thoughts, wishes, feelings, and memories. According to contemporary psychologists, information processing of which we are not aware. |
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| Freud's theory of personality that attributes thoughts and actions to unconscious motives and conflicts; the techniques used in treating psychological disorders by seeking to expose and interpret unconscious tensions. |
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| contains a reservoir of unconcious energy that, according to Freud, strives to satisfy basic sexual and aggressive drives. The id operates on pleasure principle, demanding immediate gratification. |
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| the largely conscious "executive" part of personality that, according ot Freud, mediates among the demands of the id, superego, and reality. The ego operates on the reality principle, satisfying id's desire in ways that will realistically bring pleasure rather than pain. |
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| the part of personality that, according to Freud, represents internalized ideals and provides standards for judgement (the conscience) and for future aspirations. |
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| the childhood stages of development(oral, anal, phallic, latency, genital) during which, according to Freud, the id"s please seeking energies focus on distinct erogenous zones. |
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| according to Freud, a boy's sexual desires toward his mother and feelings of jealously and hatred toward his rival father. |
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| the process by which, according to Freud, children incorporate their parent's values into their developing supereogs. |
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| according to Freaud, a lingering focus of pleasure seeking energies at an earlier psycho sexual stage, in which conflicts were unresolved. |
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| know the six defense mechanisms' chart on p. 423. |
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| Carl Jung's concept of a shared, inherited reservoir of memory traces from our species' history. |
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| a personality test, such as Rorschach inkblot test, that provides ambiguous stimuli designed to trigger projection of one's inner dynamics. |
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| the most widely used projective test, a set of 10 inkblots, designed by Herman Rorschach; seeks to identify people's inner feelings by analyzing their interpretation of the blots. |
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| according to Maslow, one of the ultimate psychological needs that arises after basic physical and psychological needs are met and self-esteem is achieved; the motivation to fulfill one's potential. |
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| unconditional positive regard? |
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| according to Rogers, an attitude of total acceptance toward another person. |
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| all our thoughts and feelings about ourselves, in answer to the question, "who am i." |
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| a questionnaire (often with true and false or agree disagree items) on which people respond to items designed to gauge a wide range of feelings and behaviors; used to assess selected personality traits. |
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| Minnesota multiphasic personality inventory (MMPI)? |
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| the most widely researched and clinically used of all personality tests. it was originally made to diagnose personality disorders. |
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| a characteristic pattern of behavior or disposition to feel and act, as assessed by self-report inventories and peer reports. |
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| empirically derived test? |
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| a test (such as the MMPI) developed by testing a pool of items and then selecting those that discriminate between groups. |
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| social=cognitive perspective? |
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| views behavior as influenced by the interaction between people's traits (including their thinking) and their social context. |
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| the interacting influences of behavior, internal cognition, and environment. |
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| the extent to which people perceive control over their environment rather than feeling helpless. |
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| external locus of control? |
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| the perception that chance or outside forces beyond your personal control determine your fate. |
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| internal locus of control? |
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| the perception that you control your own fate. |
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| the hopelessness and passive resignation an animal or human learns when unable to avoid repeated aversive events. |
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| in contemporary psychology, assumed to be the center of personality, the organizer of our thoughts, feelings, and actions. |
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| overestimating others' noticing and evaluating our appearance, performance, and blunders. as if the spotlight shine son us. |
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| ones feelings of high or low self worth. |
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| a readiness to perceive ones self favorably. |
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