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Latin word, persona; a theatrical mask, a portrayal of emotion in your character. A consistent & enduring trait and based on our biological needs & childhood experiences. A long-term.

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Personality

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Characteristics that are in a long-term, a distinguishable, enduring dimension of personality that one varies to another.
ex. kindness, perfectionism,

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Traits

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A short term alteration of one’s personality, that depends on the situation you’re in.
ex. Happiness, sadness,

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State

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The person who theorized about the traits of the person including Cardinal, Central, and Secondary traits.

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Gordon Allport

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Known as the MASTER TRAIT, the rare and most dominant traits of one’s personality
ex. compassion, independent

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Cardinal traits

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It’s less dominant traits but outstanding due to its general characteristics as basic foundation of one’s personality.
ex. Kindness, helpful, generous

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Central Traits

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This traits depends on the situation you’re in but more specific.
ex. reserved, cautious,

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Secondary Traits

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This person theorized in the traits that there are 16 Primary/Personality Factors/Traits

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Raymond Cattell

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one of the PFs, how welcoming you are; friendly

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Warmth

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one of the PFs, mathematical problems, logic, cognitive

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Reasoning

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one of the PFs, Stable, can withstand, calm, braveness

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Emotional Stability

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one of the PFs, controlling, in-charge, assertive

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Dominance

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one of the PFs, how energetic you are, socially engaging

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Liveliness

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one of the PFs, strict, value rules and ethical

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Rule-Consciousness

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one of the PFs, at ease in social interactions, confident socially.

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Social Boldness

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one of the PFs, emotionally empathic, prioritize one’s emotion.

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Sensitivity

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one of the PFs, cautious, heightened awareness, alert

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Vigilance

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one of the PFs, how imaginative you are, concrete thinker.

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Abstractedness

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one of the PFs, keep information to yourself, reserved, privates

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Privateness

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one of the PFs, adaptable and open to new ideas.

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Openess to Change

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one of the PFs, has high level of anxiety, worry, fearfullness.

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Apprehension

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one of the PFs, relies on yourself, independent.

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Self-reliance

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one of the PFs attention to small details.

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Perfectionism

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one of the PFs, able to handle stress or inner tension.

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Tension

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This person theorized that traiits are OCEAN. Openness to experience, Conscientiousness, Extraversion, Agreeableness, Neuroticism.
Lewis Goldberg
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one of the OCEAN, the ability to explore new things or ideas vs more oriented towards routine
Openness to experience
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one of the OCEAN, Level of organization & reliability vs unorganized, lazy, late
Conscientiousness
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one of the OCEAN, outgoingness, loud, talkative vs quietness, reserved, loner
Extraversion
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one of the OCEAN, Friendly, soft-hearted vs aggressive, dominant, disagreeable
Agreeableness
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one of the OCEAN, Tendency to have negative emotions vs being optimistic and calm
Neuroticism
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These persons are Mother & Daughter that are famous for MBTI Personality type Theories
Katharine Cook Briggs & Isabel Briggs Myers
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This person theorized psychoanalytic personalities including the provinces of mind, id, ego & superego.
Sigmund Freud
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It's the pleasure principle. For desires & raw urges or drives. (Evil conscience)
Id
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It's the reality principle. the doer, decides that somehow helps id in expressing itself.
Ego
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The moral principle, the one opposes the ID. (Good conscience)
Superego
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What will happen or what will you feel when your EGO contradicted to your SUPEREGO?
Guilt arises
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When you're unable to meet your moral demand in superego, what will you feel?
Feelings of inferiorty will occur
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O-A-PHA-LA-G
Psychosexual stages of development
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this stage, the pleasure focuses on the mouth and nursing. Can occur as oral dependent or having a oral aggressive personality. (birth-1 y.o.)
Oral Stage
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At this stage, the pleasure is primarily in the anus for toilet training around 2 y.o., can occur as anal expulsive/anal-retentive personality
Anal Stage
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At this stage, focuses on the genitals or manipulation of the phallus. Can occur having an Oedipus/Electra complex. (3-6y.o.)
Phallic Stage
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In this stage, it only represses the sexual interests around 7 y.o. to puberty.
Latency Stage
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This stage, had sexual reawakening and had sexual pleasure with someone outside the family. (puberty-onwards) about masturbation & relationships.
Genital Stage
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This person theorized about neo-freudian about the family constellations in various position of birth order and their personalities.
Alfred Adler
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(+) nurturing, protective, organizer (-) high anxious, exaggerated feelings of power, always right
Oldest Child
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(+) motivated and cooperative (-) competitive, easily discouraged
Middle Child
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(+) realistically ambitious (-) pampered style of life, dependent, wants to excel in everything
Last Born Child
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(+) socially mature (-) exaggerated feelings of superiority, pampered style of life, low feelings of cooperation
Only Child
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Who is the person who theorized behaviorism in Classical Condtioning
Ivan Pavlov
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Who is the person who theorized behaviorism in Operant Condtioning
B.F Skinner
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Who theorized Modeling Learning in Cognitive Theory
Albert Bandura
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Who theorized Psychosocial stages of Development?
Erik Erikson
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At this psychosocial stage, the conflict was trust vs. mistrust from feeding. (Birth to 18 months)
Infancy
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At this psychosocial stage, the conflict was autonomy vs. shame and doubt from toilet training. (2-3 years)
Early Childhood
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At this psychosocial stage, the conflict was initiative vs. guilt from exploration (3-5 years)
Preschool stage
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At this psychosocial stage, the conflict was industry vs inferiority from school by having competence or social factor. (6-11 years)
School Age
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At this psychosocial stage, the conflict was identity vs role confusion from social relationships where there's a sense of self and personal ideas. (12-18 years)
Adolescence Stage
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At this psychosocial stage, the conflict was intimacy vs. isolation from relationships by having intimate or strong relationships. (19-40 years)
Young Adulthood Stage
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At this psychosocial stage, the conflict was generativity vs stagnation from work and parenthood by having positive changes to the world. (40-65 years)
Middle Adulthood
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At this psychosocial stage, the conflict was ego integrity vs despair from reflecting on life that looks backs on their lives. (65-death)
Maturity
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Who theorized a humanistic theory based on the Hiearchy of Needs?
Abraham Maslow
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This method of assessing personality is a self rating test or inventory test, administered in a form of questionaires.
Objective Tests
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This method of assessing personality are done from two different types, the interview and life history where they observe and listen to the person.
Behavioral Method
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This type of Behavioral method does face-to-face interviews in gathering information
Interview
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This type of Behavioral method utilizes person's life history, such as diary, journals, and biographies.
Life History
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This method of assessing personality puts an individual on an ambiguous situation that's consistence w conscious & unconscious needs to uncover their hidden thoughts.
Projective Method
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This type of Projective Method uses ink like the Rorschach.
Inkblot
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This type of Projective Method uses illustrations like Thematic Apperception Test.
Pictures
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This type of Projective Method uses words on what's on their mind by having Word Association Tests
Words
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This type of Projective Method uses Sach's Sentence Completion Test where they use incomplete sentences and let the person complete the own sentence.
Sentence
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This type of Projective Method uses draw-a-person test by letting client draw a person and house-tree-person test by just drawing the said object.
Figure Drawings

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