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| 892645929 | Personality | Study of individual differences ... unique ways in which people behave that may reflect differences in mental processes as well as forces that shape mental processes. | 0 | |
| 892645930 | What approach did Sigmund Freud have on personality? | Psychodynamic approach | 1 | |
| 892645932 | Psychoanalysis | explaining and dealing with personality, based on the interplay of conscious and unconscious forces | 2 | |
| 892645933 | Psychodynamic theory | relates personality to the interplay of conflicting forces within the individual, including unconscious ones | 3 | |
| 892645934 | Who were Freud's Influences? | psychiatrist Josef Breuer, physician Jean Charcot, who explored the use of hypnosis to evaluate neuroses. | 4 | |
| 892645936 | Jean Charcot | explored the use of hypnosis to evaluate neuroses. | 5 | |
| 892645937 | Freud and the psychodynamic approach | Freud's search for the unconscious | 6 | |
| 892645938 | Catharsis | a release of pent up emotional tension | 7 | |
| 892645939 | talking cure | a method of explaining the workings of personality, psychoanalysis. | 8 | |
| 892646196 | Oedipus complex | develops interest in his mother and competitive aggression towards his father | 9 | |
| 892646197 | Libido | a psychosexual energy (from the Latin, "desire"). | 10 | |
| 892646198 | Thanatos | psychoaggressive energy (from the Latin, "death"). | 11 | |
| 892646199 | If normal development is blocked, a person may become fixated | continue to be preoccupied with gratification of the libido in a manner typical of an earlier time of life. | 12 | |
| 892646200 | Freud's structure of personality | involves conflicts and anxiety over unpleasant impulses and thoughts. | 13 | |
| 892646201 | Defense mechanisms | that function to relegate these unpleasant thoughts and feelings to the unconscious. | 14 | |
| 892646202 | Rationalization | occurs when people "make excuses" and reframe unpleasant events as actually beneficial, or their actions as justifiable or rational (when the actions are arguably not so). | 15 | |
| 892646203 | Repression | "motivated forgetting" of painful or unacceptable thoughts, feelings or memories. | 16 | |
| 892646204 | Regression | an apparent return to a more juvenile way of thinking or acting. | 17 | |
| 892646205 | Denial | refusal to acknowledge a problem or believe any information that causes anxiety. | 18 | |
| 892646206 | Displacement | the diversion of an unacceptable thought or impulse from its actual target to a less threatening object or person. | 19 | |
| 892646207 | Reaction formation | involves presentation of one's thoughts or feelings as the extreme opposite of what they actually are. | 20 | |
| 154129269 | Sublimation | Transformation of sexual or aggressive energies into culturally acceptable, even admirable behaviors | 21 | |
| 892646208 | Neo Freudians | psychologists and others who adopted some parts of Freud's theory and modified other parts. | 22 | |
| 892646209 | Karen Horney | believed that Freud exaggerated the role of sexuality in human behavior and motivation, and misunderstood the motivations of women and the dynamics of family relationships. Ideal vs. Real Self and Inner Conflicts | 23 | |
| 892646211 | What did Carl Jung propose? | "collective unconscious." | 24 | |
| 892646210 | Carl Jung | created a version of psychoanalytic theory that put a greater emphasis on the continuity of human experience and the human need for spiritual meaning in life. | 25 | |
| 892646581 | collective unconscious | Present at birth, the collective unconscious reflects the cumulative experiences of all of our ancestors. | 26 | |
| 892646825 | What does the collective unconscious contains? | archetypes. | 27 | |
| 892646826 | Archetypes | These are figures and themes that emerge repeatedly in human history and across world cultures. | 28 | |
| 892646969 | Alfred Adler | founded the school of "individual psychology." | 29 | |
| 892647416 | Individual psychology | The word "individual" refers to understanding the whole person, in contrast with the partitioned model of personality that was incorporated into the Freudian framework. | 30 | |
| 892647425 | Striving for superiority | Adler proposed that humans have a natural desire to seek personal excellence and fulfillment. | 31 | |
| 892647427 | Style of life | We create a master plan for achieving superiority | 32 | |
| 892647439 | Inferiority complex | an exaggerated feeling of inadequacy, throughout their lives. | 33 | |
| 892647442 | The learning approach | People frequently adopt a variety of behavioral styles that depend on the social context. The learning approach relates specific behaviors to specific experiences. Often the experiences from which we learn are those of other people in our environment. | 34 | |
| 892647443 | Humanistic psychology | Humanistic psychologists see people as essentially good and interested in achieving life satisfaction.This is in contrast with the morally neutral basis of behaviorism and the downright negative view of human nature offered by psychoanalytic theory. | 35 | |
| 892647444 | Carl Rogers | Humanistic psychology; believed that human nature is essentially good, and that people strive toward a state of self-actualization. | 36 | |
| 428562348 | Humanistic psychology | Deals with consciousness, values, and abstract beliefs, including spiritual experiences and the beliefs that people life and die for | 37 | |
| 892647445 | Self actualization | refers to a state of achieving one's full potential. | 38 | |
| 892647446 | self concept | Belief of Rogers, Children develop an image of the person that they really are. | 39 | |
| 892647447 | ideal self | Rogers, Children develop an image that represents the person they would like to be. | 40 | |
| 892647448 | Rogerian model: psychological distress is generated primarily what? | from the incongruity a person perceives between the self-concept and the ideal self. | 41 | |
| 892647450 | Unconditional positive regard | Complete unqualified acceptance of another person | 42 | |
| 892647451 | Personality trait | a consistent, long-lasting tendency in behavior, such as sociability, shyness or assertiveness. | 43 | |
| 892647452 | Personality state | a temporary activation of particular behavior. | 44 | |
| 892647453 | trait approach to personality | The idea that people have consistent personality characteristics that can be measured and studied | 45 | |
| 892647454 | locus of control | an individual's perception of the amount of control that he or she has over the course of life events. | 46 | |
| 892647455 | external locus of control | People who believe that their lives are controlled by external forces | 47 | |
| 892647456 | internal locus of control | People who believe that they are in charge of their lives | 48 | |
| 892647457 | The Big Five personality traits (OCEAN) | Openness to new experience, Conscientiousness, Extraversion, Agreeableness, Neuroticism | 49 | |
| 892647458 | Neuroticism | Neuroticism is the tendency to experience unpleasant emotions very easily. | 50 | |
| 892647459 | Extraversion | Extraversion is a tendency to seek stimulation and enjoy the company of other people. | 51 | |
| 892647460 | Agreeableness | Agreeableness is a tendency to be compassionate rather than antagonistic towards others. | 52 | |
| 892647461 | Conscientiousness | Conscientiousness is the tendency to show self-discipline, to be reliable, and to strive for competence and achievement. | 53 | |
| 892647462 | Openness to Experience | Openness to Experience refers to a tendency to enjoy new experiences and new ideas. | 54 | |
| 892647463 | Barnum effect | tendency to accept vague descriptions of our personality | 55 | |
| 892647464 | A standardized personality test | administered according to specified rules; The scores of a standardized test are interpreted using a prescribed rubric. | 56 | |
| 892647465 | Objective personality tests | The most widely used personality tests are administered simply using paper and pencil. | 57 | |
| 892647569 | Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI) | most widely used objective personality test | 58 | |
| 892647570 | How many questions are on the MMPI 2? | 567 true or false questions. These questions are designed to measure dimensions of personality such as sociability and conscientiousness. They are also designed to detect clinical conditions such as depression and psychotic disorders. | 59 | |
| 892647571 | Uses of the MMPI | The MMPI is a helpful instrument for research psychologists who study personality. It is a useful instrument for clinical psychologists in familiarizing themselves with clients and planning treatment. | 60 | |
| 892647572 | Projective techniques | designed to avoid this problem. The assumption behind projective tests is that personality characteristics can be detected through the process of asking people to interpret ambiguous stimuli. | 61 | |
| 892647573 | The Rorschach Inkblots | Projective techniques; The Rorschach is composed of a series of 10 ambiguous inkblots. The person taking the test is asked to interpret each of the blots. | 62 | |
| 892647574 | The Thematic Apperception Test (TAT) | Projective techniques, The TAT is based upon the presentation of a series of pictures to the test subject. The subject is request to make up a story for each picture. The story for each picture is recorded by the examining clinician. | 63 | |
| 833255932 | Oral Stage | From birth to about age 1 1/2 the infant derives intense psychosexual pleasure from stimulation of the mouth, particularly while sucking at the mother's breast, lasting concerns with dependence and independents, pleasure from eating, drinking and other oral activates | 64 | |
| 833255933 | Anal Stage | From about age 1 1/2 to 3 they get psychosexual pleasure from the sensations of bowel movements, orderliness or sloppiness, stinginessess or wastefulness, stubbornness | 65 | |
| 833255934 | Phallic stage | from age 3 to 5 or 6, they begin to play with their genitals, fear of castration or penis envy, difficult feeling closeness | 66 | |
| 833255935 | Latent period | from age 5 or 6 to puberty, suppressed their psychosexual interest | 67 | |
| 833255937 | Genital stage | Puberty onward, sexual contact with others | 68 |
