AP Psychology Chapter 15 Flashcards
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| 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 |