6135905965 | personality | an individual's characteristic pattern of thinking, feeling, and acting | ![]() | 0 |
6135907742 | unconscious | according to Freud, a reservoir of mostly unacceptable thoughts, wishes, feelings, and memories. According to contemporary psychologists, information processing of which we are unaware | ![]() | 1 |
6135918831 | Psychosexual Stages | the childhood stages of development (oral, anal, phallic, latency, genital) during which, according to Freud, the id's pleasure-seeking energies focus on distinct erogenous zones | ![]() | 2 |
6135923582 | Fixation | according to Freud, a lingering focus of pleasure-seeking energies at an earlier psychosexual stage, in which conflicts were unresolved | ![]() | 3 |
6135923583 | Defense Mechanisms | in psychoanalytic theory, the ego's protective methods of reducing anxiety by unconsciously distorting reality | ![]() | 4 |
6135927160 | Collective unconscious | Carl Jung's concept of a shared, inherited reservoir of memory traces from our species' history. | ![]() | 5 |
6135932963 | Projective Test | personality test that provides ambiguous stimuli designed to trigger projection of ones inner dynamics | ![]() | 6 |
6135934698 | Thematic Apperception Test (TAT) | protective test where people express inner feelings and interests through the stories they make up about ambiguous scenes | ![]() | 7 |
6135936975 | Rorschach Inkblot Test | most widely used. set of ten inkblots; seeks to identify peoples inner feelings by analyzing their interpretations of the inkblots | ![]() | 8 |
6135938513 | Terror-Management Theory | proposes that faith in ones world view and pursuit of self esteem provide protection against a deeply rooted fear of death | ![]() | 9 |
6135941039 | Self-Actualization | ultimate psychological need that arises after basic physical and psychological needs are met and self esteem is achieved | ![]() | 10 |
6135943669 | Unconditional Positive Regard | an attitude of total acceptance toward another person | ![]() | 11 |
6135947193 | Self-Concept | all our thoughts and feelings about ourselves, in answer to the question "who am I?" | ![]() | 12 |
6135949098 | Trait | characteristic pattern of behavior or a disposition to feel and act, as assessed by self-report inventories and peer reports | ![]() | 13 |
6135951318 | Personality Inventory | questionnaire on which people respond to items designed to gauge a wide range of feelings and behaviors | ![]() | 14 |
6135953371 | Minnesota Mulitphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI) | most widely used; originally developed to identify emotional disorders, how used for many other screening purposes | ![]() | 15 |
6135956429 | Empirically Derived Test | developed by testing a pool of items and selecting those that discriminate between groups | ![]() | 16 |
6135959187 | Reciprocal Determinism | Interacting influences between personality and environmental factors | ![]() | 17 |
6135960825 | Personal Control | our sense of controlling our environment rather than feeling helpless | ![]() | 18 |
6135969285 | Locus of Control (External and Internal) | perception that one controls ones own fate | ![]() | 19 |
6135965830 | Learned Helplessness | hopelessness and passive resignation an animal or human learns when unable to avoid repeated aversive events | ![]() | 20 |
6135968011 | Positive Psychology | concerned not only with weakness and damage but also with strength and virtue | ![]() | 21 |
6135972246 | Self-Esteem | ones feelings of high or low self-worth | ![]() | 22 |
6135974172 | Self-Serving Bias | a readiness to perceive oneself as favorable | ![]() | 23 |
AP Psychology Chapter 15 Flashcards
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