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Ch 12 Flashcards

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An individuals characteristic pattern of thinking feeling and acting

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Personality

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Symbolic representations of underlying traumatic experience

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Symptoms

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Memories that are available but not currently in awareness

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Preconscious

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Unconsciousness that operates on the pleasure principle and wish fulfillment; “devil”

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Id

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Operates using the reality principle; satisfies the id’s wishes in a way that will bring pleasure rather than pain

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Ego

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Part of the conscious personality that represents ideals and morals “angel”

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Superego

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The basic defense mechanism that banishes and disguises feelings and memories that arouse anxiety from consciousness

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Repression

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Channeling forbidden impulses into something acceptable DM

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Sublimation

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Channeling impulses into non threatening objects DM

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Displacement

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Refusing to accept certain facts exist DM

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Denial

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Acting in a manner opposite of impulses DM

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Reaction formation

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Over-rationalize; removing emotional content from an emotional idea DM

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Intellectualization

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Attributing unconscious impulses to people other than ourselves DM

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Projection

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A personality test designed to let a person respond to ambiguous stimuli, revealing hidden emotions

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Projective Test

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3 big ideas that survived Freud’s psychoanalytic theory

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1) importance of childhood experiences 2)existence of the unconscious mind 3) our self protected defense mechanisms

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Criticisms of Freud’s psychoanalytic theory

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1) not empirical (scientifically testable) 2) focused too much on sexual conflicts in childhood 3) based on the idea of repression

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Carl Roger’s Person Centered Perspective; people nurture our growth in three ways

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Being genuine, being accepting, being empathetic

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A caring, accepting, non judge mental attitude that Rogers believed would help people develop self awareness and self acceptance

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Unconditional positive regard

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All our thoughts and feelings about ourselves in answer to the questions “who am I?”

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Self concept

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Hysteria

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Traumatic experiences are repressed (actively held in unconscious)

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Humanistic theories

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Maslow and Carl Rogers; shifted focus from disorders born out of dark conflicts to emphasizing ways that healthy people strive

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What Freud and Humanistic theories have in common

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Explaining how our personality develops; they focused on the forces that act upon us

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Trait researchers

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Led by Gordon Alport; are less concerned with explaining traits than describing them; define personality as stable and enduring patterns of behavior

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Trait

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A dimension of personality used to categorize people according to the degree to which they manifest a particular characteristic

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Two assumptions of trait theories

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1) stability over time

2) stability across situations

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Big five factors

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Conscientiousness, agreeableness, neuroticism, openness, extraversion

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Conscientiousness

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Organized, careful, disciplined

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Personality traits are weak predictors of a person’s behavior; it only predicts behavior across many different situations

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Person situation controversy

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Overestimating others’ noticing and evaluating our appearances and performances

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Spotlight effect

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Our feelings of high or low self worth

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Self esteem

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Feelings of self that change; situation based

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Self worth

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Our readiness to perceive ourselves favorably

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Self serving bias

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Giving priority to our own goals over group goals and defining our identity in terms of personal traits rather than membership

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Individualism

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Giving priority to goals of the group

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Collectivism

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Neuroticism

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Nervousness; emotional instability

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Agreeableness

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Affection, trusting

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Openness

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Originality; open mindedness

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Extraversion

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Energy; enthusiasm

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