AP Psychology Chapter 10 Flashcards

6447458592	personality	a person's characteristic pattern of thinking feeling and acting	0
6447458593	psychoanalytic	childhood sexuality and unconscious motivations influence personality	1
6447458594	humanistic	inner capacities for growth and self fulfillment	2
6447458595	free assoiciation	person relaxes and talks about whatever comes to mind, no matter how trivial or embarrassing	3
6447458596	unconscious (Freud)	reservoir of unacceptable thoughts, wishes, feelings, memories	4
6447458597	unconscious (contemporary psychologists)	information processing we are unaware of	5
6447458598	repress	forcibly block	6
6447458599	id	reservoir of unconscious psychic energy that strives to satisfy basic sexual and aggressive drives operates on pleasure principle demanding immediate gratification	7
6447458600	ego	"executive part of personality that mediates along demands of id, superego, and reality. containts partly conscious perceptions, thoughts, judgments, and memories	8
6447458601	superego	represents internalized ideals and provides standards for judgment and future aspirations	9
6447458602	psychosexual stages	childhood stages of development oral, anal, phallic, latency, genital id's pleasure seeking energies focus on distinct erogenous zones	10
6447458603	erogenous zones	pleasure sensitive areas of the body	11
6447458604	phallic stage	boys seek genital stimulation	12
6447458605	Oedipus complex	boys develop unconscious sexual desires for mother and jealousy and hatred for father	13
6447458606	Electra complex	girls develop unconscious sexual desires for father and jealousy and hatred for mother	14
6447458607	identification	process by which children incorporate parents' values into developing superegos	15
6447458608	fixate	lingering focus of pleasure seeking energies at earlier psychosexual stage in which conflicts were unresolved	16
6447458609	defense mechanisms	tactics that reduce or redirect anxiety by distorting reality	17
6447458610	repression	banishes anxiety-arousing wishes from consciousness	18
6447458611	reaction formation	ego unconsciously makes unacceptable impulses look like their opposites	19
6447458612	projection	disguises threatening impulses by attributing them to others	20
6447458613	rationalization	unconsciously generate self-justifying explanations to hide from outselves the real reasons for our actions	21
6447458614	displacement	diverts sexual or aggressive impulses toward an object or person that is psychologically more acceptable than the one that aroused the feelings	22
6447458615	sublimation	transformation of unacceptable impulses into socially valued motivations	23
6447458616	denial	protects the person from real events that are painful to accept either by rejecting a fact or its seriousness	24
6447458617	collective unconscious	common reservoir of images derived from our species universal experiences	25
6447458618	projective test	aim to provide this "psychological x-ray" by asking test-takers to describe an ambiguous stimulus or tell a story about it	26
6447458619	Thematic Apperception Test (TAT)	people view ambiguous pictures and then make up stories about them	27
6447458620	Rorschach inkblot test	people describe what they see in a series of inkblots	28
6447458621	terror-management theory	thinking about one's morlity provokes various terror-management devices	29
6447458622	self-actualization	process of fulfilling our potential	30
6447458623	self-transcendence	meaning, purpose, and communication beyond the self	31
6447458624	peak experiences	surpass ordinary consciousness	32
6447458625	unconditional positive regard	attitude of total acceptance toward another person	33
6447458626	self-concept	all our thoughts and feelings about ourselves, in answer to "who am i?"	34
6447458627	trait	people's characteristics behaviors and conscious motives	35
6447458628	personality inventories	a questionnaire covering a wide range of feelings and behaviors that is designed to assess several traits at once	36
6447458629	Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI)	identify "abnormal" rather than normal personality traits	37
6447458630	empirically derived test	a test developed by testing a pool of items and then selecting those that discriminate between groups CANOE Consciousness, Agreeableness, Neuroticism, Openness, Extraversion	38
6447458631	social- cognitive perspective	view behavior as influenced by the interaction between people's traits and their social context	39
6447458632	reciprocal determinism	interacting influences of behavior. internal cognition, and environment	40
6447458633	personal control	extent to which people perceive control over their environment rather than feeling helplessness	41
6447458634	external locus of control	perception that chance or outside forces beyond your personal control determine your fate	42
6447458635	internal locus of control	perception that you control your own fate	43
6447458636	positive psychology	a psychology concerned not only with weakness and damage but also with strength and virtue	44
6447458637	self	center of personality, organizer of our thoughts, feelings, and actions	45
6447458638	spotlight effect	overestimating others' noticing and evaluating our appearance, performance, and blunders	46
6447458639	self-esteem	one's feelings of high or low self-worth	47
6447458640	self-serving bias	readiness to perceive oneself favorably	48
6447458641	individualism	giving priority to one's own goals over group goals and defining one's identity in terms of personal attributes rather than group identifications	49
6447458642	collectivism	giving priority to the goals of one's group and defining one's identity accordingly	50