AP Psychology VII - Personality Flashcards

12659402930	rationalization	defense mechanism that offers self-justifying explanations in place of the real, more threatening, unconscious reasons for one's actions	0
12659400609	displacement	psychoanalytic defense mechanism that shifts sexual or aggressive impulses toward a more acceptable or less threatening object or person, as when redirecting anger toward a safer outlet	1
12659326050	reciprocal determinism	the interacting influences of behavior, internal cognition, and environment	2
12659392592	projection	psychoanalytic defense mechanism by which people disguise their own threatening impulses by attributing them to others	3
12659350436	Big Five Factors	conscientiousness, agreeableness, neuroticism, openness, extraversion are factored to determine one's personality	4
12659354081	Eysenck Personality Questionnaire	uses extroversion, introversion, unstable, stable to organize personality	5
12659389390	denial	refusing to believe or even perceive painful realities	6
12659357810	Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory	a well-researched, clinical questionnaire used to assess personality and psychological abnormalities/problems	7
12659382886	reaction formation	preventing unacceptable thoughts or behaviors from being expressed by exaggerating opposite thoughts or types of behaviors.	8
12659364251	Myers-Briggs Type Indicator	a personality test that taps four characteristics and classifies people into 1 of 16 personality types	9
12659371795	sublimation	channeling threatening devices into acceptable outlets or professions	10
12659371796	regression	psychoanalytic defense mechanism in which an individual faced with anxiety retreats to a more infantile psychosexual stage, where some psychic energy remains fixated	11
12659369459	repression	in psychoanalytic theory, the basic defense mechanism that banishes from consciousness anxiety-arousing thoughts, feelings, and memories	12
12659366874	fixation	according to Freud, a lingering focus of pleasure-seeking energies at an earlier psychosexual stage, in which conflicts were unresolved	13