Personality Review

Question 1

a pattern of psychological and behavioral characteristics that we can use to compare people

Answer 1

Personality

Question 2

everything is because of unconscious desires or conflicts

Answer 2

Psychoanalytic Theory (Freud)

Question 3

explaining human thought, behavior, and feeling through unconscious desires.

Answer 3

Psychodynamic Approach

Question 4

wishes, inter-conflicts, and memories that you are unaware of

Answer 4

Unconscious

Question 5

all of the mental processes that we are aware of at any given moment

Answer 5

Conscious Awareness

Question 6

anything (memories or information) that are not present in our conscious but is easily accessible

Answer 6

Preconscious Awareness

Question 7

basic instincts, desires, and impulses

Answer 7

ID (Frued)

Question 8

the mediator between ID and the super ego (thinking about benefitting others)

Answer 8

Ego (Freud)

Question 9

tells you what you should and should not do (only benefiting yourself)

Answer 9

Superego

Question 10

guided by the ID and you do whatever feels good

Answer 10

Pleasure Principle

Question 11

guided by the ego and it drives you to do things that are socially acceptable

Answer 11

Reality Principle

Question 12

tactics that either prevent or disguise things that happen to us

Answer 12

Defense Mechanisms (there are 7 of these) (Freud)

Question 13

looking at internal and external conflicts based on body parts

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Psychosexual Development (Freud)

Question 14

1st stage of psychosexual development (pleasure and everything ends up in your mouth) (babies)

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Oral Stage (Freud)

Question 15

2ns stage of psychosexual development, the please shifts from your mouth to your anis

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Anal Stage

Question 16

3rd stage of psychosexual development, your pleasure shifts to your genitals, unless you’re a girl (penis envy)

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Phallic Stage

Question 17

4th stage of psychosexual development, when sexual impulses stop and start making friends

Answer 17

Latency Period

Question 18

5th stage of psychosexual development, sexual impulses reappear during adolescence

Answer 18

Genital Stage

Question 19

when little boys want to kill their dad and get with their mom

Answer 19

Oedipal Complex

Question 20

when little girls want to get with their dad

Answer 20

Electra Complex

Question 21

the idea that we have a collection of past experiences that we pass down generation to generation

Answer 21

Collective Unconscious (Jung)

Question 22

stable characteristics that we display over time

Answer 22

Personality Traits

Question 23

looking at personality by measuring traits

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Trait Approach

Question 24

your personality can be a combination of 5 different traits/factors

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Five-Factor Personality (O.C.E.A.N)

Question 25

looking at your personality and how it is a reflection of your thinking and behavior

Answer 25

Social-Cognitive Approach

Question 26

learned expectation of success

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Self-Efficacy (Bandura)

Question 27

how our personality develops based on our perception of the world

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Humanistic Psychology Approach

Question 28

reaching your full potential

Answer 28

Self-Actualization

Question 29

our desire for growth and fulfillment that motivates our behavior

Answer 29

Actualizing Tendency

Question 30

the way you think about yourself

Answer 30

Self-Concept

Question 31

we experience positive regard (people thinking highly of us) only when we act or behave a certain way

Answer 31

Conditions of Worth (Rogers)

Question 32

when you think you can control environmental factors

Answer 32

Internal Locus of Control

Question 33

you can't control environment factors

Answer 33

External Locus of Control

Question 34

ana unstructured personality test (inkblot test, etc)

Answer 34

Projective Personality Measures

Question 35

personality test that has a clear objective (multiple choice)

Answer 35

Non-projective Personality Measures

Question 36

most widely used personality test (has 500 T/F questions)

Answer 36

MMPI (Minnesota Multi-phasic Personality Inventory)

Question 37

when you get a picture a picture and you have to give some kind of response to it

Answer 37

TAT (Thematic Apperception Test)