6328809681 | Personality | characteristic patterns of thinking, feeling and acting | ![]() | 0 |
6328809682 | Free Association | method of exploring the unconscious where patient relaxes and say whatever is on his mind, psychoanalytic | ![]() | 1 |
6328809683 | Unconsciousness (Freud) | unacceptable motives and thoughts, unaware of processing, repressed desires | ![]() | 2 |
6328809684 | ID | fueled by pleasure principle, aims to satisfy basic sexual and aggressive drive | ![]() | 3 |
6328809685 | Ego | reality principle wants to satisfy ID in ways with realistic and long term pleasure | ![]() | 4 |
6328809686 | Superego | conscious and morality, considers real and ideal, often opposes ID | ![]() | 5 |
6328809687 | Oral Psychosexual Stage | 0-18 months, pleasure center is mouth....biting, chewing, sucking | ![]() | 6 |
6328809688 | Anal Psychosexual Stage | 18-36 months, focused on bowel and bladder elimination, control | ![]() | 7 |
6328809689 | Phallic Psychosexual Stage | 3-6 years, pleasure zone is genitals, coping with sexual feelings, oedipus complex | ![]() | 8 |
6328809690 | Oedipus Complex | subconscious sexual desire to mom and jealousy of dad, more desire of relationship than sexual interaction | ![]() | 9 |
6328809691 | Latency Psychosexual Stage | 6-puberty, dormant or suppressed sexual feelings ex: girls have cooties | ![]() | 10 |
6328809692 | Genital Psychosexual Stage | puberty+, maturation of sexual interest | ![]() | 11 |
6328809693 | Identification in Psychosexualiy | coping with oedipus complex by joining sides with "oppressor", this is where gender idetity takes place ex: if you cant beat them, join them | ![]() | 12 |
6328809694 | Fixation in Psychosexuality | when psychosexual stage is over or understimulated (conflict is unresolved) and develop behaviors from being stuck in the stage | ![]() | 13 |
6328809695 | Defense Mechanism | actions to reduce anxiety by distorting reality, ego's protection method, often sub concious | ![]() | 14 |
6328809696 | Repression | defense mechanism that pushes thoughts into subconscious to banish all anxiety, underlies all defense mechanisms | ![]() | 15 |
6328809697 | Regression | defense mechanism where you regress to infantile psychosexuality, comfort things from childhood ex: baby blanket, thumb sucking when scared | ![]() | 16 |
6328809698 | Reaction Formation | defense mechanism where you are switching unacceptable impulses to acceptable ones ex: fake smiling when you're mad | ![]() | 17 |
6328809699 | Projection | defense mechanism where you disguise your own threatening impulses by attributing it to others ex: thief thinks everyone else is a thief | ![]() | 18 |
6328809700 | Rationalization | defense mechanism where you justify your problem ex: an alcoholic says hey just drink because it is social | ![]() | 19 |
6328809701 | Displacement | defense mechanism where you are displaying unacceptable emotions on a more acceptable thing ex: want to hit someone but you decide to go hit a ball | ![]() | 20 |
6328809702 | Denial | defense mechanism where you refuse to believe you have a problem | ![]() | 21 |
6328809703 | Sublimination | channeling frustration toward another goal, usually healthy | ![]() | 22 |
6328809704 | Carl Jung believed... | the unconscious held the collective unconscious | ![]() | 23 |
6328809705 | Collective Unconscious | shared and inherited memory from previous times and species to help guide us in survival | ![]() | 24 |
6328809706 | Projective Tests | personality tests and identification of random stimuli designed to trigger inner desires and thoughts | ![]() | 25 |
6328809707 | Rorschach Inkblot Test | famous projective test where people describe what they see in ink images, modernly disredited | ![]() | 26 |
6328809708 | False Consensus Effect | tendency to overestimate the extent of shared belief (projection) ex: I can go over the speed limit because everyone else does | ![]() | 27 |
6328809709 | Terror Management Theory | death related anxiety, obsessed with their death | ![]() | 28 |
6328809710 | Thematic Apperception Test | people express their inner feelings through stories from random scenes | ![]() | 29 |
6328809711 | Abraham Maslow | hierarchy of needs, once needs are met you focus on another thing | ![]() | 30 |
6328809712 | Self Actualization | process of fulfilling potential | ![]() | 31 |
6328809713 | Self Transcendence | understanding meaning beyond ones self | ![]() | 32 |
6328809714 | 3 conditions for growth | genuineness, empathy, acceptance or unbias, Carl Rogers | ![]() | 33 |
6328809715 | Carl Rogers believed... | people are good unless growth was inhibited | ![]() | 34 |
6328809716 | Self Concept | central feature of personality | ![]() | 35 |
6328809717 | Myer Briggs Type Indicator | personality tests that defines you as a thinker, feeler...etc. | ![]() | 36 |
6328809718 | Factor Analysis | grouping traits based on commonality | ![]() | 37 |
6328809719 | Eysenck Personality Questionnaire | believed to be genetically influenced, categorized by 4 over arching traits | ![]() | 38 |
6328809720 | Personality Inventories | in depth questionnaires designed to evaluate traits with agree/disagree questions | ![]() | 39 |
6328809721 | Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Test | Starke Hathaway, originally developed to access and define emotional disorders but is used around the world now | ![]() | 40 |
6328809722 | Empirically Derived Test | testing a pool of items and then selecting the different ones and placing them in groups | ![]() | 41 |
6328809723 | Barnum Effect | accepting stock descriptions allowing you to truly believe them ex: horoscopes | ![]() | 42 |
6328809724 | Big 5 Personality Factors | conscientiousness (organization) , agreeableness, neuroticism, openness, extraversion....50% heritibility among each trait. (CANOE) | ![]() | 43 |
6328809725 | Neuroticism | emotional stability | ![]() | 44 |
6328809726 | What is the best way to determine personality? | studying it over time because your personality becomes more stable, not tests because of barnum effect | ![]() | 45 |
6328809727 | Reciprocal Determinism | the interaction of your mind, environment and behavior that influences personality | ![]() | 46 |
6328809728 | Personal Control | how we perceive the control in our environment, studied by correlation and experimentation | ![]() | 47 |
6328809729 | External Locus of Control | thinking that an outside forces beyond our control determine fate | ![]() | 48 |
6328809730 | Internal Locus of Control | thinking that you can control your own fate | ![]() | 49 |
6328809731 | Self Control | ability to control yourself and impulses in order to achieve greater reward in the future | ![]() | 50 |
6328809732 | Learned Helplessness | bad event-percieved lack of control-helpless behavior ex: college, nursing homes, prison, depression | ![]() | 51 |
6328809733 | Self Efficacy | belief in yourself that you can succeed, it is a learned behavior and is psychology most studied topic | ![]() | 52 |
6328809734 | Strong Self Efficacy | views challenges as tasks, deeper interest, recover quickly from setbacks | ![]() | 53 |
6328809735 | Weak Self Efficacy | challenges are beyond capabilities, low confidence, focuses on negatives | ![]() | 54 |
6328809736 | Attributional Style | optimistic vs pessimistic | ![]() | 55 |
6328809737 | Positive Psychology | optimal human functioning, promotes stregnths | ![]() | 56 |
6328809738 | Self Reference Effect | we remember things better when connect an idea to a personal experience | ![]() | 57 |
6328809739 | Self | the center of personality | 58 | |
6328809740 | Possible Selves | perception of what you could become "rich self" "poor self" | ![]() | 59 |
6328809741 | Spotlight Effect | overestimating what others think of us ex: you have a zit and you are embarrased but no one really notices (Thomas Gilovich) | ![]() | 60 |
6328809742 | Self Esteem | feeling of self worth | ![]() | 61 |
6328809743 | Self Serving Bias | thinking of yourself higher than others or better than average | ![]() | 62 |
6328809744 | Narcissism | excessive self love | ![]() | 63 |
6328809745 | Defensive Self Esteem | focuses more about what others think about them, failure and criticism are threatening, aggresssive | ![]() | 64 |
6328809746 | Secure Self Esteem | more accepting, less effected by external sources, greater quality of life | 65 | |
6328809747 | Psychoanalytic Personality Theory | Freud, emotional disorder are from the unconscious, unresolved conflict and defense mechanisms | ![]() | 66 |
6328809748 | Psychoanalytic Assessments | free association, projective tests, dream analysis | 67 | |
6328809749 | Psyhodynamic Personality Theory | Adler, Jung, Horney...the conscious and unconscious interact, childhood experiences and focuses on defense mechanisms | 68 | |
6328809750 | Humanistic Personality Theory | Rogers and Maslow, focuses on healthy striving of self actualization, self concept, self awareness, therapy | ![]() | 69 |
6328809751 | Trait Personality Theory | Allport, Eysenck, we have certain traits that are stable and influenced by genetics, big 5 and personality tests | ![]() | 70 |
6328809752 | Social Cognitive Personality Theory | Bandura, our traits and sociability interact to produce behavior, behavior assessment | 71 |
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