Unit Two - Psychology of Human Relations Flashcards

6006377394	Personality	An individual's unique assortment of consistent behavior, emotion and attitude patterns	0
6006384980	Trait	durable pattern of behavior regardless of situation	1
6006396969	Five-Factor Model of Personality	OCEAN - developed by McCrae and Costa - most prevalent personality inventory used today	2
6006413088	Extraversion	more sociable; gets energy from others; more affectionate than reserved	3
6006417986	Neuroticism	more anxious, worried, insecure, and lacking in consistency of mood	4
6006428649	Openness to Experience	more imaginative, independent, and willing to risk	5
6006435358	Agreeableness	tends to be soft hearted, trusting, and helpful	6
6006441977	Conscientiousness	well-organized, careful, and self-disciplined; tries hard	7
6006453572	Sigmund Freud	father of psychoanalytic theory; believed the unconscious plays a large role in our personality	8
6006459576	Psychoanalysis	therapy technique put in place by Freud	9
6006464519	3 structures of personality	id, ego, superego	10
6006467566	ID	based on the pleasure principle; part of our personality that wants things now	11
6006472770	EGO	based on the reality principle; balance between the ID and the superego that is mature	12
6006476882	SUPEREGO	based on the morality principle; the intensely moral component of our personality	13
6006488505	Defense Mechanism	unconscious conflicts that arise when we feel anxiety	14
6006498553	Rationalization	creating false excuses to justify unacceptable behavior	15
6006500902	Repression	blocking distressing thoughts/feelings by burying them in our unconscious	16
6006505151	Projection	attributing one's own thoughts, feelings, or motives to another person	17
6006510465	Displacement	diverting emotional feelings from the original source to a substitute target	18
6006514043	Reaction Formation	acting the opposite of your true, usually unacceptable, feelings	19
6006524762	Regression	reverting to an earlier developmental behavior	20
6006527032	Identification	aligning one's self with another person/group to build self-esteem	21
6006531080	Neo-Freudians	people who believe in the basic premise behind the Freud's theory (unconscious) but not the degree of the negative aspects (aggreesion/sex)	22
6006535123	Behavioral Perspective	observable behavior and experiences that are rewarded/punished determine one's personality	23
6006537740	John B. Watson	father of behaviorism	24
6006544659	Classical Conditioning	learning that occurs when a neutral stimulus gets combined with a stimulus that generates some type of response	25
6006547017	Ivan Pavlov	father of classical conditioning	26
6006551860	Operant Conditioning	a behavior that gets rewarded will be more likely to be performed again; while a behavior that is punished will be less likely to be performed again	27
6006557085	B.F. Skinner	father of operant conditioning	28
6006560892	Positive Reinforcement	a behavior is strengthened because a reward follows it	29
6006566224	Negative Reinforcement	a behavior is strengthened because removal of something unpleasant follows it	30
6006574084	Positive Punishment	a behavior is weakened because an aversive event follows it	31
6006582856	Negative Punishment	a behavior Is weakened because something enjoyable is taken away	32
6006582857	Observational Learning	when a person's behavior is dictated by their modeling of another's behavior	33
6006605037	Albert Bandura	father of observational learning, the social-cognitive theory, and modeling	34
6006613081	Bobo Doll Study	experiment by Bandura the exemplifies observational learning	35
6006622065	Humanistic Perspective	believes humans are inherently good and focuses on the client's personal growth and own freedom	36
6006625514	Carl Rogers	father of the Humanistic Theory	37
6006629696	Person-centered Therapy	type of therapy that looks to help the client personally grow, find and build their self-concept	38
6006640354	Congruence	the ability of a person to correctly identify their self-concept with reference to their actual experience(s)	39
6006651726	Unconditional Positive Regard	love and affection that is not based on any characteristic other than being who you are	40
6006657349	Abraham Maslow	humanistic theorist who is best known for his hierrarchy of needs	41
6006671561	Hierarchy of Needs	a systematic arrangement of needs, according to priority, where the most basic of needs need to be met before other can be addressed	42
6006694258	Self-Actualization	the top of Maslow's hierarchy; the full realization of one's potential	43
6006701432	Hans Eysenck	most often linked to development of term introversion-extroversion	44
6009726159	Twin Separated at Birth	best group to study to appreciate nature vs nurture argument	45
6009736173	Evolutionary Psychology	believes that personality is the product of our biological processes that best aide in natural selection	46
6009748986	Natural Selection	survival of the fittest concept that states that the traits most likely for survival and/or reproduction are the ones that will persist and get better and the traits not helping will die off	47
6009773240	Standardization	uniform procedures used in testing environments to ensure equal opportunity	48
6009779730	Test Norms	provide information about where a particular score ranks relative to other scores on the same test	49
6009786186	Reliability	relates to the consistency of a test	50
6009788954	Validity	relates to whether the test is measuring what it is supposed to measure	51
6009795934	Self-report inventory	personality tests that ask individuals to analyze their own patterns of behavior	52
6009800973	Projective Test	tests that use vague and ambiguous information to try and reveal underlying thoughts, feelings, etc.	53
6009809993	Rorschach Test	projective style of test where people view inkblots and comment on what they are seeing	54
6009816493	Thematic Apperception Test	projective style of test where people see pictures and describe what they feel is happening within them	55