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Personality

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Pattern of beliefs thoughts emotions and behaviors your thoughts and action

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Unconscious

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Unnacceptial thoughts it is a driving force that we are unaware of butting them and locking them in

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Free association

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Talk therapy encourage people to talk about everything and everything, psychologists look for repeating themes let’s unconscious come out

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Latent dreams

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The unconscious meaning behind your dream

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Manafest dream

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What we dream about

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ID

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Instinctaual biological urges, unconscious, pleasure principal

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Libido

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Sex drive energy tension between conflicting ID EGO SUPER EGO

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Opedius Complex

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Boys have a secrete desire for moms, gravitate toward mother figures

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Electra Complex

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Girls desire father figure

Gravitate towards men like that

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EGO

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Rational thinking portion of personality

ID WANT EGO get

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SUPER EGO

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function to control Urges of ID makes us human our morality

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Freudian Slip

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Saying an unintentional comment meant to say one thing say another

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Oral Stage 0-1 1/2

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Sexual pleasure or gradification by sucking or chewing on things

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Anal Stage 1 1/2-3

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Gain sexual pleasure form sense of bodily control of functions

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Phiallic Stage

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Genitals, girls are jealous of boys “penis envy”

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Latency Stage 6-puberty

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Everything goes to sleep

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Genitalia Stage puberty>

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Mature sexually

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Fixation

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Adults will display characteristics of an earlier stage of development due to unresolved conflicts

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Defense mechanisms

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Stratified that people use to reduce anxiety

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Repression

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Blocks access to a memory

Abused child blocked out childhood

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Isolation

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Not physical, detach or withdrawal from emotions

Changing topics or redirecting conversation

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Rationalization

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Over justify unexceptional action

Stealing an overpriced item cuz it was over priced

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Projection

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Give or project unwanted feelings or emotions onto another person

Asks if someone looks angry because you are angry

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Reaction Formation

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Express opposite of what you truly feel

Guys pick on girls cuz they like them

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Regression
Go back to a earlier immature behavior when things are going bad Cry hit head throw a fit
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Displacement
Redirect negative emotion into another person Mad at someone take it out on someone else
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Compensation
Overgratify yourself to avoid feeling negative emotions Eating when upset
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Fantasy
Day dreaming fanticising how you would like things
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Identification
Attach your personality or identity to another person, group, or organization Packer fanatic
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Undoing
Apologizing not to make others feel good but for your own Benefit Fight with wife take her out to dinner so now even
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Denial
Refusal to accept reality | Faced with issue that everyone sees but you becuase you don't want to
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Sublimination
Negative emotions reachable into a positive way or activity | Upset go home and run
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Cartharsis
Intense emotional release when a person confronts their true problems overall goal
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Neo Freudians
Believe that subconscious influences personality and behavior... but NO sexual aggression
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Alfred Adler
Personality is determined by inferiority that we feel as children STRIVING FOR SUPERIORITY
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Striving for superiority
Making ourselves better then ourselves and others
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Style of life
Unique way that people express their striving for superiority Athletics acidemics
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Social Interests
Overcoming inferiority feeling good about yourself now you can help others
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Narcissist
Don't overcome inferiority develop caring only about yourself
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Selfish goals
Caring about yourself leading to racism and inferiority complex
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Inferiority Complex
People who are unable to overcome inferiority tend to over compensate for inner feelings of weekness Show off strengths and independence
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Karen Horney
Social influences are more important to our unconscious and conscious behavior BASIC ANXIETY
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Basic anxiety
Child's sense of fear and loneliest helplessness and abandonment
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Coping mechanisms
Moving towards people Moving against people Moving away from people
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Carl Jung
We all share collective unconscious inherited from our ancestors which influences our behaviors and personality Instincts deeply imbedded COLLECTIVE UNCONSCIOUS
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Archetypes
Universal symbols that represent something in the universe Pictures that pop in your head when you hear specific thing
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Projective personality tests
Questions or tasks that are designed to get into unconscious mind Open ended questions personalities will be projected by answers
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Thematic apperception test
Picture or drawing Project inside feelings
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Rorschach inc blot test
Blob on paper tell a story about your past or unconcious
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Trait or objective test
Specific questions with specific answers that calculate score Limited choices Myers Briggs
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Extrovert
Outgoing people person social
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Introvert
Shy timid small groups or alone
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Emotional stability
Stable | Things don't get to them relaxed
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Instability
Super exited or depressed No medium It increases when environment changes
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Factor analysis
Basic idea of a persons personality
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Conscientiousness
Reliability
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Conscientiousness low
Disorganized careless
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Conscientiousness high
Disappointed , organized careful in what you do
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Agreeableness
Friendliness
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Agreeableness low
Ruthless Suspicious of others Uncooperative
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Agreeableness high
Kind Helpful Trusting
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Neuroticism
Negitive trait | Nervousness
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Neuroticism low
Calm secure Emotionally stable
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Neuroticism high
Anxious Insecure Emotionally unstable
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Openness
Open to thinking
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Openness low
Practice Routine orriented Stubborn
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Openness high
Imaginative Variety Independent

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