personality

Question 1

personality

Answer 1

characteristic pattern of thinking, feeling and acting

Question 2

temperament

Answer 2

personality that is biologically based
- our emotional excitability
- observable in infants
- combines with experience to shape lifelong traits

Question 3

extrovert

Answer 3

gains energy from social environments

Question 4

inteoverts

Answer 4

overstimulated in social environments, gets energy from solitude

Question 5

the big five

Answer 5

open mindedness, conscientiousness, extraversion, agreeableness, neuroticism

Question 6

conscientiousness

Answer 6

ability to manage impulses
and participate in goal oriented
behaviour

Question 7

agreeableness

Answer 7

• way in which a person treats relationships
• refers to people’s orientation and interactions with others

Question 8

extraversion

Answer 8

habit of wanting to go out and interact with social environments
- how comfortable people are in social situations

Question 9

openmindedness

Answer 9

How willing a person is to try new things and engage in imaginative and intellectual activities

Question 10

neuroticism

Answer 10

person’s emotional stability based on how they perceive the world.
- How likely an individual interprets a situation as threatening

Question 11

psychodynamic approach / perspective

Answer 11

how the unconscious mind makes sense of their relationships, experiences, how they view the world

Question 12

unconscious mind

Answer 12

feelings, thoughts, urges and memories that are outside of our conscious awareness

Question 13

freudian slip

Answer 13

verbal mistake that is believed to be linked to the unconscious mind, often sexual in nature

Question 14

stages of psychosexual development

Answer 14

oral, anal, phallic, latency, genital

Question 15

oral stage

Answer 15

Pleasure centers on the mouth-sucking, biting, chewing

Question 16

anal stage

Answer 16

Pleasure focuses on bowel and bladder elimination; coping with demands for control

Question 17

phallic stage

Answer 17

Pleasure zone is the genitals; coping with incestuous sexual feelings

Question 18

latency stage

Answer 18

Dormant sexual feelings

Question 19

genital

Answer 19

Maturation of sexual interests

Question 20

psychoanalysis

Answer 20

form of therapy to assess the unconscious mind
- makes patients aware of their unconscious motives so that they can gain control over their behaviour

Question 21

free association

Answer 21

exploring the unconscious
- relaxing and saying whatever comes first to mind

Question 22

structure/model of the mind

Answer 22

below the surface is the unconscious mind
- id, superego, ego

Question 23

id

Answer 23

unconsciously strives to satisfy basic sexual and aggressive drives
- operating on the pleasure principle demanding immediate gratification
- devil: young child

Question 24

superego

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internalized ideals, morals, values, norms that develop as we interact with peers parents and society
- tells us what we should and shouldnt do
- angel: age 7/preteen

Question 25

ego

Answer 25

mediate the demands of the id and superego - makes it what they want - boss: adolescence/teen

Question 26

why do we still study freud?

Answer 26

- few things he got right are the foundation of trustworthy research - historical - his therapy can still be effective - psychologists taking responsibility for his mess / clearing things up - shows how psychology has evolved

Question 27

8 defence mechanisms (pleasure pain principle)

Answer 27

repression reaction formation projection rationalization regression displacement sublimation denial

Question 28

projective tests

Answer 28

aims to look beyond the unconscious mind

Question 29

thematic apperception test TAT

Answer 29

projective test in which people expressed their inner feelings and interest through the stories they make up about ambiguous scenes

Question 30

rorschach inkblot test

Answer 30

six to identify people’s inner feelings by analyzing interpretations of blots

Question 31

repression

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hiding memory, thoughts and feelings because they are too painful to face

Question 32

reaction formation

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choosing to behave in the opposite manner

Question 33

projection

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unconsciously taking unwanted emotions or traits you don’t like about yourself and attributing them to someone else

Question 34

rationalization

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justifying your actions to help you feel comfortable with the choice you have made or the emotions you feel - making mistakes seem reasonable

Question 35

regression

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escaping to an early stage in life - coping with stressors by acting in a childish, immature or age inappropriate manner

Question 36

displacement

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directing strong emotions toward a person or object that doesn’t feel threatening - impulse to react without consequences

Question 37

sublimation

Answer 37

positive form of displacement - shifting impulses to something positive

Question 38

denial

Answer 38

refusing to admit or accept something that has occurred as if it didn’t or doesn’t exist