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Type A Behavior

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a cluster of characteristics such as being excessively competitive, driven, impairments and hassle

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Type B Behavior

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a cluster of chracteristics such as being relaxed and easy going

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personality

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a patter of enduring distinctive thoughts emotions and behavior that chracterize the way an individual adapts to the world

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Psychodynamic theories

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focus on the inner workings or personality especially internal conflicts and struggle

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Free association

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relax and say what comes to mind no matter how trivial or embarassing used to get

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Id

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consists of unconsciouss drives and is the individuals resevoir of sexual energies

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pleasure principle

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the psychic force that motivates people to seek immediate gratification of instinctual, or libidinal, impulses, such as sex, hunger, thirst, and elimination

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Ego

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“the executive” directs energy supplied by the id

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reality principle

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delays action until it is appropriate

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superego

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harsh internal judge of our behavior

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defense mechanisms

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tactics the ego uses to reduce anxitey produeced by the id superego conflict

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denial

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the refusal to acknowledge unwanted beliefs or actions

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displacement

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directing unacceptable impulses at a less threatening target

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repression

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memmories that provoke too much anxiety to deal with are pushed into the unconscious

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regression

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reverting to childish behavior

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reaction formation

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reverse direction of a disturbing desire to make the desire make socially acceptable (express the opposite of how you feel)

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Projection

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defend yourself against your own unconscious impulses by denying thier existence in themeslves while attributing them to others

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rationalization

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creating logical excuses for emotional or irrational behavior

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Sublimation

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the redirection of aggressive feelings into a more socially acceptable outlet

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Freud Psycho sexual stages of personality development

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oral, anal, phallic, latency, and genital

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Fixation

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believed that personality traits traced to fixations or unresolved conflicts or hangups caused by an over indulgence

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oral stage

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pleasure center is the mouth if overfed or frustratedoral traits may created like smoking kissing nail bitting over eating alcoholism

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Anal stage

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toilet training pleasure in holding in or letting go

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hallic stage

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pleasure focuses on the genitals as the child realizes self stimulation is enjoyable

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penis envy
a girls desire for a penis
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latency period
turn thier attention to other issues like starting school childset aside all sexual feelings out of conscious awarness
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genital stage
puberty to adulthood
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Karen horneys sociocultural approach
freuds theories not supported by observable data Not penis envy were envious of males advantages in society
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Womb envy
men ate jealous of womens reproductive abilites
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basic anxiety
feeling of being alone in an unfamiliar world is the theme of childhood
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Carl Jung analytical theory
Unconscious made of two parts
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personal unconscious
(like Freud unconscious) compromised of repressed memories and clusters of thoughts the persons doesn't want to confront
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collective unconscious
of behavior and memories common to all humans and explains similaraties between cultures
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archetypes
universal concepts we all share as parts of the human species
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persona
is your public image
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shadow
evil sied of personality
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Anima/Animus
female side animus male side to personality
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self
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Alfred Adlers individual psychology
childhood is crucial formative years people are motivated by a fear of failure in ferioty and the desire to achieve superiority
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inferioty complex
a basic feeling of inadequacy and insecurity, deriving from actual or imagined physical or psychological deficiency.
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Projective test
presents individuals with an ambiguous stimulus and asks them to describe it or tell a story about it
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Rorschach inkblot test
uses an individuals perception of ink blots to determine his or her personality
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thematic apperception test
20 sketches depicting various scenes and life situation
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humanistic perspectives
stress a persons captivity for personal growth and human qualities
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maslows approach
focus on self actualizes bc they have obtained full potential
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carl Rogers Approach
personal growth and self determination all barn with the raw ingredients of a fulfilling life
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unconditional positive
Rogers’s terms for being accepted, valued, and treated positively regardless of behavior
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self concept
our conscious representation of who we are and who we wish to become
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incongruence
occurs when the ideal self does not align with the real self
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trait theories
attempt to learn what traits make up personality and how they relate to actual behavior
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nomothetic approach
each person has a unique but basic set number of traits
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idiographic
people's unique personalities can be understood as them having relatively greater or lesser amounts of traits that are consistently across people
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big five factors of personality
the 5 most basic dimensions of personality
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factor analysis
set of statistical procedures designed to determine the number of distinct unobservable constructs needed to account for the pattern of correlations among a set of measures.
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raymond cattel- 16 PF
warmth, reasoning, emotional stability, dominance, liveliness, rule-consciousness, social boldness, sensitivity, vigilance, abstractedness, privateness, apprehension, openness to change, self-reliance, perfectionism, and tension
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Gordon Allport
one of the founders of personality
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self report inventories
a questionnaire on which participants indicate the degree to which the description listed apply to them
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MMPI-2
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Myers briggs type indicators
a psychometric questionnaire designed to measure psychological preferences in how people perceive the world and make decisions.
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social cognitive perspective
applies principle of social learning and cognition to personality
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reciprocal determinism
process of influencing and being influenced by our enviorment
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self efficacy
a persons beliefs about his or her own abilities in a given situation
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julian rotter social cognitive theory
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internal locus of control
the degree to which we expect that a reinforcement or out come of out behavior is contingent on out behavior or personal characteristic
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external locus od control
the degree to which we expect that a reinforcement or outcomes of our behavior is a functions of luck or fate is under the control of others in unpredictable

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