personality pt 1

Question 1

personality

Answer 1

long-standing traits and patterns that propel individuals to consistently think, feel, and behave in specific ways

Question 2

individual psychology

Answer 2

school of psychology proposed by Adler that focuses on our drive to compensate for feelings of inferiority

Question 3

inferiority complex

Answer 3

refers to a person’s feelings that they lack worth and don’t measure up to others’ or to society’s standards

Question 4

analytical psychology

Answer 4

Jung’s theory focusing on the balance of opposing forces within one’s personality and the significance of the collective unconscious

Question 5

collective unconsciousness

Answer 5

common psychological tendencies that have been passed down from one generation to the next

Question 6

archetypes

Answer 6

pattern that exists in our collective unconscious across cultures and societies

Question 7

social-cognitive theory

Answer 7

Bandura’s theory of personality that emphasizes both cognition and learning as sources of individual differences in personality

Question 8

reciprocal determinism

Answer 8

belief that one’s environment can determine behavior, but at the same time, people can influence the environment with both their thoughts and behaviors

Question 9

self-efficacy

Answer 9

someone’s level of confidence in their own abilities

Question 10

locus of control

Answer 10

beliefs about the power we have over our lives; an external locus of control is the belief that our outcomes are outside of our control; an internal locus of control is the belief that we control our own outcomes