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Chapter 12: Personality Flashcards

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What is extraversion?

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Outgoing, sociable, upbeat, friendly, assertive

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What is neuroticism?

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Anxious, hostile, self-confidence, insecure, vulnerable

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What does it mean to be open to experience?

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Curiosity, flexibility, fantasy, imaginativeness

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What is it mean to have agreeableness?

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Sympathetic, trusting, cooperative, modest, straightforward

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What does it mean to be conscientious?

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Disciplined, well organized, punctual, dependable

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What is the ID of personality?

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“I want”

Basic biological drive
Sexual and aggressive desires

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What is the Super Ego of personality?

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“I should”

Standard judgement of morals

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What is the Ego of personality?

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“I plan”

Boss of conscious
Mediates the desires of Id and Super Ego

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What does the oral stage have to do with according to Freud?

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Birth to 1.5 years old

Weening off of breast feeding

Dependency on others

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What does the anal stage have to do with according to Freud?

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1.5 to 2.5 years old

Toilet training

Anal expulsive
Anal retentive

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What does it mean if you’re anal expulsive?

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Trained late

Easy going, sloppy

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What does it mean to be Ana retentive?

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Trained on time

Careful, obsessively clean

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What does the phallic stage have to do with according to Freud?

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2.5-6 years old

Oedipus and Electra complex

Crush on mom or dad

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What does the latency stage have to do with according to Freud?

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6 to preadolescent

Sublimation

Child explores world and new skills
Sexual desires are repressed

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What does the genital stage have to do with according to Freud?

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Adolescents to older

Seek marriage partner

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What is a fixation?

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Failure to Move Forward from One Stage to Another as Expected

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What are some defense mechanisms?

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Repression, rationalization, sublimation, reaction information, identification, displacement, compensation, fantasy, regression, projection

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What is projection?

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The tendency to attribute your own thoughts and impulses onto others

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What is regression?

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Reverting back to childhood behaviors

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What is repression?

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Pushing thoughts into the unconscious

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What is sublimation?

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Redirecting forbidden desire into a socially acceptable one

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Who was Carl Jung in terms of personality?

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Less emphasis on social factors

Focused on the unconscious

all have a collected unconscious

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What is a collective unconscious?

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Seared inherited wealth of memory traces from our species history

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What are archetypes?

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Emotionally charged images, thoughts that have universal meaning

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What can you see ego as?
True self
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What can you see persona as?
Your mask
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What can you see shadow as?
Your fears
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What is health of self?
When your ego and persona match
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What is the personal unconscious?
Repressed or forgotten thoughts
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What are the three levels of consciousness?
Conscious, preconscious, and unconscious
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What is the conscious level?
What you're willing to reveal
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What is the preconscious level?
Bring your unconscious to conscious Memories and stored knowledge
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What is the unconscious level?
Repressed feelings
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Who was the famous patient that complained about problems that had no physical cause?
Annie o
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What is factor analysis?
Correlations among many variables are analyzed to identify closely related clusters of variables
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What is observational learning?
When an organism is responding is influenced by the observation of others, who are called models
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What is self – efficiency?
Refers to one's beliefs about one's ability to perform behaviors that should lead to expected outcomes
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What is self-concept?
A collection of believes about one's own nature, unique qualities and typical behavior
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What is Maslow's hierarchy of needs?
A systematic arrangement of needs, according to priority and which basic needs must be met before less basic needs are aroused
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What is self actualization?
The need to for fill one's potential People with exceptionally healthy personalities, marked by continued personal growth
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What is incongruence?
The degree of disparity between one self-concept and ones actual experience
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What is the Psychodynamic Theory?
All Diverse Theories descended from work of Sigmund Freud, which focus on Unconscious Mental Forces.
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Freud Believes Conflicts in Aggression and Sexual Impulses in the ID, Ego, and SuperEgo determine Behavior.
True
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What is Adler's Striving for Superiority?
A Universal Drive to Adapt, Improve Oneself, and Master Life’s Challenges
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What is Bandera’s Social Cognitive Theory?
People are Shaped by their Environments, and People shape their Environments with Goals, etc.
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What is reciprocal determinism?
Internal Mental Events, External Environmental Events, and Overt Behavior all Influence one Another.
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Higher Self-Efficacy or Higher Self-Confidence leads to better Performance.
Yup
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According to Walter Michelle what is the situational determination of trait/behavior?
Behavior is Characterized by more Situational Specificity rather than Consistency.
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What is Congruency?
when Self-Concept is very similar to Actual Experience, and has less Anxiety.
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What are the traits of the 5 factory model of personality?
Extraversion, neuroticism, openness to expirence, agreeableness and conscientiousness.
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Two major areas that personality theorists study are...
Consistency and distinctiveness
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What is Freud's theory of personality and development?
There are a bunch of stages that lead to personality.
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What is the Oedipal complex and Electra complex?
When females tend to act like their mom and males tend to act like their dad
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What is Alfred adlers inferiority complex?
The exaggerated feelings of weakness in compensation overcoming imagined imferiorities
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What is the humanistic. Theories of personality – Rogers and Maslow
Thought that humans are complex being controlled their destinies
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What is the behaviors theory
Freud and his stages
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Who is Raymond kids house?
Man who narrowed down Gordon's thousands of adjectives to only 16
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Who is Gordon Allport?
Created thousands of adjectives to describe people
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Who is Hans Eyseneck?
He believed that personality is from hereditary

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