Personality test Flashcards
(144 cards)
1
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Free association
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method of exploring unconscious in which the patients relaxes and says whatever comes to mind, no matte dhow embarrassing or trivial
2
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Psychoanalysis
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Freud’s theory of personality that attributes thoughts and actions to unconscious motives and conflicts. ex. if you accidentally say something inappropriate he would say you deep down are thinking about it and its in your brain without you knowing.
3
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unconscious
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reservoir of mostly unacceptable, thoughts, wishes, feelings, and memories. information processing in which we are unaware
4
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ID
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unconscious psychic energy that constantly strives to satisfy basic drives to survive, reproduce, and aggress
5
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what basic principle does the ID operate on?
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pleasure principle. wants to please us
6
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EGO
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mediates between ID, superego, and reality.
7
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what basic principle does the EGO operate on and what is that principles purpose?
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reality principle. serves to satisfy the id’s desires in ways that will realistically bring pleasure rather than pain
8
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Superego
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the voice of moral compass (conscience) that forces the ego to consider not only the real but the ideal
9
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what does the superego do?
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provide standards for judgments
10
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what are the five psychosexual stages?
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oral, anal, phallic, latency, and genital
11
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What is the oral stage
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pleasure centers on the mouth - ex. sucking, biting, and chewing
12
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what is the anal stage
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pleasure focuses on bowel and bladder elimination; coping with demands for control
13
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what is the phallic stage?
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pleasure zone to genitals; coping with incestuous sexual feelings
14
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What is the lately stage?
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phase of dormant sexual feelings
15
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what is the genital stage?
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maturation of sexual interests
16
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what is the Oedipus complex?
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a boy’s sexual desires towards is mother and feelings of jealousy and hatred for the rival father
17
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identification?
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the process by which, according to freud, children in cooperate their parent’s values into their developing superegos
18
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fixation?
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any point in the five stages, that strong conflict could lock the person’s pleasure-seeking energies in that stage
19
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what happens when you are fixated
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freud said for example if you got stuck in the oral stage you will smoke or eat excessively.
20
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Defense Mechanisms?
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tactics that reduce or redirect anxiety by distorting reality
21
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Repression?
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banishes anxiety-arousing wishes and feelings and thoughts from consciousness
22
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Collective Unconscious?
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a common reservoir of images, or archetypes, derived from our species’ universal experiences
23
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Psychodynamic theories?
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modern-day approaches that view personality with a focus on the unconscious and the importance of childhood experiences
24
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Collective unconscious
A
a common reservoir of images, or archetypes, derived from our species’ universal experiences
25
Projective Test?
personality test that provides an ambiguous signal and then has the patient describe it or tell a story about it
26
what is an example of the projective test
Rorschach
27
what is a projective test supposed to see?
the inner dynamics of a patient
28
Thematic Apperception Test?
a test where a person sees an ambiguous picture and then makes up a story about it
29
Rorschach inkblot Test
set of 10 inkblots that seeks to identify people's inner feelings by analyzing their interpretations of the blots
30
what is the most widely used projective test?
Rorschach inkblot Test
31
who invented the Rorschach inkblot Test?
Hermann Rorschach
32
False consensus effect?
the tendency to overestimate the extent to which others share our beliefs and our behaviors
33
what is an example of the false consensus effect?
people who cheat on their taxes down play the seriousness of it because they think everyone else does
34
what does the Terror-Management Theory do?
explores people's emotional and behavioral responses to reminders of their impending death
35
what is the Terror-Management Theory?
a theory of death-related anxiety
36
Humanistic theories?
focused on the ways people strive for weld-determination, self realization, and potential for healthy personal growth
37
Self actualization?
the process of fulfilling our potential
38
Unconditional positive regard?
an attitude of grace that values us even knowing our failings
39
Finish this sentence. Slim think with your.....?
cute A$$
40
Self-concept?
all our thoughts and feelings about ourselves
41
what question does self-concept answer?
who am I?
42
trait?
people's characteristic behaviors and conscious motives
43
Personality inventory?
longer questionnaires covering a wide range of feelings and behaviors
44
what does Personality inventory asses?
several (selected) personality at once
45
what was the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI) originally developed for?
to identify emotional disorders (still considered its most appropriate use)
46
what is the most widely researched and clinically used of all personality tests?
Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI)?
47
Empirically derived test?
test developed by testing a pool of items and then selecting those that discriminate between groups
48
what is an example of a Empirically derived test?
Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI)
49
Reciprocal Determinism?
the interacting influences of behavior, internal cognition, and environment
50
Positive psychology?
the scientific study of optimal human functioning
51
what does positive psychology aim to do?
discover and promote strengths and virtues that enable individuals and communities to thrive
52
self?
assumed to be the center of personality, the organizer of our thoughts, feelings, and actions
53
where are of psychology is self found?
contemporary psychology
54
Spotlight effect?
over estimating other's noticing and evaluating our appearance, performance, and blunders
55
what is an example of the spotlight effect?
walking into a room with an ugly sweater and think everyone notices
56
sel esteem?
one's feelings of high or low self worth
57
self-efficacy?
one's sense of competence and effectiveness
58
self-serving bias
a readiness to perceive oneself favorably
59
narcissism?
excessive self-love and self absorption
60
Collectivism?
giving priority to one's group and defining one's identity according
61
method of exploring unconscious in which the patients relaxes and says whatever comes to mind, no matte dhow embarrassing or trivial
Free association
62
Freud's theory of personality that attributes thoughts and actions to unconscious motives and conflicts. ex. if you accidentally say something inappropriate he would say you deep down are thinking about it and its in your brain without you knowing.
Psychoanalysis
63
reservoir of mostly unacceptable, thoughts, wishes, feelings, and memories. information processing in which we are unaware
unconscious
64
unconscious psychic energy that constantly strives to satisfy basic drives to survive, reproduce, and aggress
ID
65
pleasure principle. wants to please us
what basic principle does the ID operate on?
66
mediates between ID, superego, and reality.
EGO
67
reality principle. serves to satisfy the id's desires in ways that will realistically bring pleasure rather than pain
what basic principle does the EGO operate on and what is that principles purpose?
68
the voice of moral compass (conscience) that forces the ego to consider not only the real but the ideal
Superego
69
provide standards for judgments
what does the superego do?
70
oral, anal, phallic, latency, and genital
what are the five psychosexual stages?
71
pleasure centers on the mouth - ex. sucking, biting, and chewing
What is the oral stage
72
pleasure focuses on bowel and bladder elimination; coping with demands for control
what is the anal stage
73
pleasure zone to genitals; coping with incestuous sexual feelings
what is the phallic stage?
74
phase of dormant sexual feelings
What is the lately stage?
75
maturation of sexual interests
what is the genital stage?
76
a boy's sexual desires towards is mother and feelings of jealousy and hatred for the rival father
what is the Oedipus complex?
77
the process by which, according to freud, children in cooperate their parent's values into their developing superegos
identification?
78
any point in the five stages, that strong conflict could lock the person's pleasure-seeking energies in that stage
fixation?
79
freud said for example if you got stuck in the oral stage you will smoke or eat excessively.
what happens when you are fixated
80
tactics that reduce or redirect anxiety by distorting reality
Defense Mechanisms?
81
banishes anxiety-arousing wishes and feelings and thoughts from consciousness
Repression?
82
a common reservoir of images, or archetypes, derived from our species' universal experiences
Collective Unconscious?
83
modern-day approaches that view personality with a focus on the unconscious and the importance of childhood experiences
Psychodynamic theories?
84
a common reservoir of images, or archetypes, derived from our species' universal experiences
Collective unconscious
85
personality test that provides an ambiguous signal and then has the patient describe it or tell a story about it
Projective Test?
86
Rorschach
what is an example of the projective test
87
the inner dynamics of a patient
what is a projective test supposed to see?
88
a test where a person sees an ambiguous picture and then makes up a story about it
Thematic Apperception Test?
89
set of 10 inkblots that seeks to identify people's inner feelings by analyzing their interpretations of the blots
Rorschach inkblot Test
90
Rorschach inkblot Test
what is the most widely used projective test?
91
Hermann Rorschach
who invented the Rorschach inkblot Test?
92
the tendency to overestimate the extent to which others share our beliefs and our behaviors
False consensus effect?
92
the tendency to overestimate the extent to which others share our beliefs and our behaviors
False consensus effect?
93
people who cheat on their taxes down play the seriousness of it because they think everyone else does
what is an example of the false consensus effect?
93
people who cheat on their taxes down play the seriousness of it because they think everyone else does
what is an example of the false consensus effect?
94
explores people's emotional and behavioral responses to reminders of their impending death
what does the Terror-Management Theory do?
94
explores people's emotional and behavioral responses to reminders of their impending death
what does the Terror-Management Theory do?
95
a theory of death-related anxiety
what is the Terror-Management Theory?
96
focused on the ways people strive for weld-determination, self realization, and potential for healthy personal growth
Humanistic theories?
96
focused on the ways people strive for weld-determination, self realization, and potential for healthy personal growth
Humanistic theories?
97
the process of fulfilling our potential
Self actualization?
97
the process of fulfilling our potential
Self actualization?
98
an attitude of grace that values us even knowing our failings
Unconditional positive regard?
99
cute A$$
Finish this sentence. Slim think with your.....?
100
cute A$$
Finish this sentence. Slim think with your.....?
100
all our thoughts and feelings about ourselves
Self-concept?
101
who am I?
what question does self-concept answer?
102
people's characteristic behaviors and conscious motives
trait?
103
people's characteristic behaviors and conscious motives
trait?
103
longer questionnaires covering a wide range of feelings and behaviors
Personality inventory?
104
several (selected) personality at once
what does Personality inventory asses?
104
several (selected) personality at once
what does Personality inventory asses?
105
to identify emotional disorders (still considered its most appropriate use)
what was the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI) originally developed for?
105
to identify emotional disorders (still considered its most appropriate use)
what was the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI) originally developed for?
106
Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI)?
what is the most widely researched and clinically used of all personality tests?
106
Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI)?
what is the most widely researched and clinically used of all personality tests?
107
test developed by testing a pool of items and then selecting those that discriminate between groups
Empirically derived test?
108
Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI)
what is an example of a Empirically derived test?
108
Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI)
what is an example of a Empirically derived test?
109
the interacting influences of behavior, internal cognition, and environment
Reciprocal Determinism?
109
the interacting influences of behavior, internal cognition, and environment
Reciprocal Determinism?
110
the scientific study of optimal human functioning
Positive psychology?
111
discover and promote strengths and virtues that enable individuals and communities to thrive
what does positive psychology aim to do?
111
discover and promote strengths and virtues that enable individuals and communities to thrive
what does positive psychology aim to do?
112
assumed to be the center of personality, the organizer of our thoughts, feelings, and actions
self?
112
assumed to be the center of personality, the organizer of our thoughts, feelings, and actions
self?
113
contemporary psychology
where are of psychology is self found?
114
over estimating other's noticing and evaluating our appearance, performance, and blunders
Spotlight effect?
114
over estimating other's noticing and evaluating our appearance, performance, and blunders
Spotlight effect?
115
walking into a room with an ugly sweater and think everyone notices
what is an example of the spotlight effect?
116
one's feelings of high or low self worth
sel esteem?
116
one's feelings of high or low self worth
sel esteem?
117
one's sense of competence and effectiveness
self-efficacy?
117
one's sense of competence and effectiveness
self-efficacy?
118
a readiness to perceive oneself favorably
self-serving bias
118
a readiness to perceive oneself favorably
self-serving bias
119
excessive self-love and self absorption
narcissism?
119
excessive self-love and self absorption
narcissism?
120
giving priority to one's group and defining one's identity according
Collectivism?
120
giving priority to one's group and defining one's identity according
Collectivism?
121
What did Carl Jung call the shared, inherited reservoir of memory traces from our species history?
collective unconscious
122
Who is considered to be the leading advocate of personality's social-cognitive approach?
albert bandura
123
The way we explain negative and positive events is called?
attributional style
124
