B Flashcards
The feeling of being alone and isolated, separated from the natural world.
basic anxiety (Fromm)
Feelings of isolation and helplessness in a potentially hostile world.
basic anxiety (Horney)
Anxiety arising from inability to satisfy physiological and safety needs.
basic anxiety (Maslow)
The incompatible tendency to move toward, against, and away from people.
basic conflict (Horney)
Repressed feelings of rage that originate during childhood when children fear that their parents will not satisfy their needs for safety and satisfaction.
basic hostility (Horney)
The ego quality that emerges from the conflict between antithetical elements in Erikson’s stages of development.
basic strength
McCrae and Costa’s term for the universal raw material of personality.
basic tendencies
The possibility of a particular response occurring at a given time and place as calculated in relation to the reinforcement of that response.
behavior potential (Rotter)
Skinner’s approach to studying behavior that assumes that human conduct is shaped primarily by the individual’s personal history of reinforcement and secondarily by natural selection and cultural practices.
behavioral analysis
An individual’s unique and stable pattern of behaving differently in different situations
behavioral signature of personality (Mischel)
A “school” of psychology that limits its subject matter to observable behavior. John B. Watson is usually credited with being the founder
of behaviorism, with B. F. Skinner its most notable proponent.
behaviorism
Love of life
biophilia
Traits with two poles: that is, those traits scaled from a minus point to a positive point, with zero representing the midpoint.
bipolar traits
Love between self-actualizing people and characterized by the love for the being of the other.
B-love (Maslow)
The values of self-actualizing people, including beauty, truth, goodness, justice, wholeness, and the like.
B-values (Maslow)
