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6135905965personalityan individual's characteristic pattern of thinking, feeling, and acting0
6135907742unconsciousaccording to Freud, a reservoir of mostly unacceptable thoughts, wishes, feelings, and memories. According to contemporary psychologists, information processing of which we are unaware1
6135918831Psychosexual Stagesthe childhood stages of development (oral, anal, phallic, latency, genital) during which, according to Freud, the id's pleasure-seeking energies focus on distinct erogenous zones2
6135923582Fixationaccording to Freud, a lingering focus of pleasure-seeking energies at an earlier psychosexual stage, in which conflicts were unresolved3
6135923583Defense Mechanismsin psychoanalytic theory, the ego's protective methods of reducing anxiety by unconsciously distorting reality4
6135927160Collective unconsciousCarl Jung's concept of a shared, inherited reservoir of memory traces from our species' history.5
6135932963Projective Testpersonality test that provides ambiguous stimuli designed to trigger projection of ones inner dynamics6
6135934698Thematic Apperception Test (TAT)protective test where people express inner feelings and interests through the stories they make up about ambiguous scenes7
6135936975Rorschach Inkblot Testmost widely used. set of ten inkblots; seeks to identify peoples inner feelings by analyzing their interpretations of the inkblots8
6135938513Terror-Management Theoryproposes that faith in ones world view and pursuit of self esteem provide protection against a deeply rooted fear of death9
6135941039Self-Actualizationultimate psychological need that arises after basic physical and psychological needs are met and self esteem is achieved10
6135943669Unconditional Positive Regardan attitude of total acceptance toward another person11
6135947193Self-Conceptall our thoughts and feelings about ourselves, in answer to the question "who am I?"12
6135949098Traitcharacteristic pattern of behavior or a disposition to feel and act, as assessed by self-report inventories and peer reports13
6135951318Personality Inventoryquestionnaire on which people respond to items designed to gauge a wide range of feelings and behaviors14
6135953371Minnesota Mulitphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI)most widely used; originally developed to identify emotional disorders, how used for many other screening purposes15
6135956429Empirically Derived Testdeveloped by testing a pool of items and selecting those that discriminate between groups16
6135959187Reciprocal DeterminismInteracting influences between personality and environmental factors17
6135960825Personal Controlour sense of controlling our environment rather than feeling helpless18
6135969285Locus of Control (External and Internal)perception that one controls ones own fate19
6135965830Learned Helplessnesshopelessness and passive resignation an animal or human learns when unable to avoid repeated aversive events20
6135968011Positive Psychologyconcerned not only with weakness and damage but also with strength and virtue21
6135972246Self-Esteemones feelings of high or low self-worth22
6135974172Self-Serving Biasa readiness to perceive oneself as favorable23

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