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Chapter 13 Flashcards

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A method of exploring the unconscious in which the person relaxes and says whatever comes to mind no matter how trivial or embarrassing

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Free association

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Freud’s theory of personality that attributes thoughts and actions to unconscious motives and conflicts

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Psychoanalysis

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According to Freud a reservoir of mostly unacceptable thoughts, wishes, feelings, and memories. According to contemporary psychology, information processing of which we are unaware

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Unconscious

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A reservoir of unconscious psychic energy that, according to Freud, strives to satisfy basic sexual and aggressive drives

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Id

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And individuals characteristic pattern of thinking, feeling, and acting

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Personality

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The largely conscious, executive part of personality that, according to Freud, mediates among the demands of the ID, super ego, and reality

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Ego

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The part of personality that, according to Freud, represents internalized ideals and provides standards for judgment and for future aspirations

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Superego

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The childhood stages of development during which, according to Freud, the IDs pleasure seeking energies focused on distinct erogenous zones

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Psychosexual stages

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According to Freud, the boys sexual desire towards his mother and feelings of jealousy and hatred for the rival father

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Oedipus complex

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The process by which, according to Freud, children incorporate their parents values into the developing super egos

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Identification

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According to Freud, a lingering focus of pleasure seeking energies at an earlier psychosexual stage, and which conflicts were unresolved

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Fixation

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And psychoanalytic theory, the egos protective methods of reducing anxiety by consciously distorting reality

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Defense mechanisms

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Carl Jones concept of shared, inherited reservoir of memory traces from our species history

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Collective unconscious

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A personality test, such as Rorschach, that provides ambiguous stimuli designed to trigger projection of one’s inner dynamics

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Projective test

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The most widely used projective test, a set of 10 ink blots; seeks to identify peoples inner feelings by analyzing their interputation of the blots

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Rorschach inkblot test

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View personality with a focus on the unconscious and the importance of childhood experience

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Psychodynamic theories

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In psychoanalytic theory, the basic defense mechanism that banishes anxiety arousing thoughts, feelings, and memories from consciousness

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Repression

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A theory of death related anxiety

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Terror management theory

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View personality with a focus on the potential for healthy personal growth

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Humanistic theories

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According to Maslow, the motivation to fulfill one’s potential

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Self- actualization

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According to Rogers, an attitude of total acceptance towards another person

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Unconditional positive regard

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All our thoughts and feelings about ourselves, in answer to the question, who am I

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Self- concept

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A characteristic pattern of behavior or a disposition to feel and act

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Trait

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A questionnaire on which people respond to items designed to gauge a wide range of feeling used to assess select personality traits

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Personality inventory

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Originally developed to identify emotional disorders, this test is now used for many other screening purposes

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Minnesota multiphasic personality inventory

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A test developed by testing a pool of items and then selecting those that discriminate between groups

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Empirically Derived test

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Views behavior as influenced by the interaction between peoples traits and their social context

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Social cognitive perspective

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The interacting influences of behavior, internal cognition, and environment

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Reciprocal determinism

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The extent to which we perceive control over our environment

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Personal control

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The perception that chance or outside forces beyond our personal control determine our fate

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External locus of control

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The perception that you control your own fate

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Internal locus of control

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The ability to control impulses and delay short-term gratification for greater long term rewards

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Self control

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The hopelessness and passive resignation an animal or human learns when unable to avoid repeated aversive events

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Learned helplessness

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In contemporary psychology, it seems to be the center of personality, the organizer of our thoughts, feelings, and actions

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Self

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Overestimating others noticing and evaluating our appearance, performance, and blunders

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Spotlight effect

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One’s feelings of high or low self-worth

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Self-esteem

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A readiness to perceive oneself favorably

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Self-serving bias

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Excessive self-love and self absorption

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Narcissism

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Neo- Freudians

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New Freudians. Focused on conscious mind also.

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Frauds critics

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After the fact explanations for behavior

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Maslow’s hierarchy

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Self actualization= reaching full potential

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Humanism flaws

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Encourages individual focus. Didn’t notice the evil in people.

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Allport

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Trait perspective theorist

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Myers Briggs Type Indicator

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Terms very positive traits. Test.

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Factor analysis

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Taking a cluster of items and relating them to personality

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MMPI

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Measures disorders. Most widely used.

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Barnum effect

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What astrologers use to predict people’s future

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Trait theory flaws

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Overestimate consistency of personality characteristics

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Optimism

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Linked to greater personal control

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Seligman ‘s positive psychology

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Optimism

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Possible self

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Person you hope to be. People who can see their future self are more successful.

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5 psychosexual stages

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Oral, anal, phallic, latency, genital

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Oral

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Pleasure centers in mouth (sucking biting chewing)

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Anal

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Pleasure focuses on bowel no bladder elimination; coping with demands for control

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Phallic

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Pleasure zone is genitals; coping with insestious

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Latency

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A phase of dormant sexual feelings

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Genital

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Maturation of sexual interests

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Repression

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Mother of all; forgetting

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Reaction formation

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Switching unacceptable impulses into the opposite

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Regression

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Reverting back to a childhood stage to find comfort

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Projection

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Attributing your own unacceptable actions to others

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Rationalization

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Offering self justifying explanations to unacceptable things you do

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Displacement

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Shifting sexual or aggressive impulses toward something more acceptable.

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Denial

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Refusing to believe or perceive painful realities

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