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Study Guide 12 - Personality Flashcards

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  • Freud’ idea

- the devil that wants immediate pleasure

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Ego

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  • Freud’s idea
  • a combination of the Devil and angel
  • in touch with reality and makes compromises
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Superego

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  • freuds idea
  • the angel!
  • a moral guide
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Iceberg Analogy

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  • Freud thought that the conscious mind was relatively small
  • conscious: what we are aware of
  • preconscious: not aware of but retrievable
  • unconscious: not aware of and not retrievable
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Defense Mechanisms

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-ways to protect ourselves from anxiety cause by conflict between ID, ego, and superego

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Repression

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-purposefully forgetting a bad memory

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Rationalization

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-making excuses

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Projection

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  • blaming others

- everyone has the same problems that I do

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Regression

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-going backward, returning to old behaviors

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Denial

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-not admitting to something

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Reaction-formation

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-feeling one way and expressing yourself in the opposite way

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Displacement

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-redirecting ones anger

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Intellectualization

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-stifling emotion with logic or reason

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Sublimation

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-to channel impulses

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Psychosexual development

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  • Freud believed that identity and personality are related to our sex drive
  • conflicts between sex drive and society with a resolution leading to progression through development
  • disorders are evidence that an individual was never able to find a resolution and is stuck in a stage
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Oral

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  • 0-1.5

- breast offers food and love

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Anal

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  • 1.5-3

- potty training gives toddlers a sense of power

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Phallic

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  • 4-5

- children are attracted to the parent of the opposite sex

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Latency

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  • 5-puberty

- sexual feelings are suppressed

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Genital

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  • puberty

- renewed sexual interest

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Fixations

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  • Freud thought that unresolved internal conflicts lead to fixation in a certain stage
  • ex) oral fixation = smoking
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Free Association

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  • when Freud would ask patients to name the first thing that came to mind
  • used to tap the unconscious
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Dream Analysis

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  • Freud used this method to analyze the unconscious
  • manifest = story line of dream
  • latent = underlying meaning of dream
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Freudian Slip

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-an error in speech, memory, or behavior that is believed to be caused by unconscious mind

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Penis Envy
-women were incomplete men and wanted a penis
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Jung
- psychodynamic | - mythology and ancient cultures
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Collective Unconscious
- Jung | - stores all of humanity's common stories, memories, and urges
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Archetypes
- Jung - universal ideas - ex) hero figure
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Introversion/Extroversion
- Jung - introversion: shy - extroversion: social and outgoing
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Individuation
- Jung | - we strive toward stabilizing our personality by moderating extroversion and introversion
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Adler
- inferior - future - striving for superiority: behavior driven by efforts to overcome childhood inferiority
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Style of Life
- Adler - unique set of motives, actions, values and interests - in order to overcome inferiority
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Fictional Finalisms
- expectations that motivate people | - Adler
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Inferiority Complex
- Adler | - being small and incapable as a child leads to feelings of inferiority
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Birth Order
- Adler | - order you're born in effects personality
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Horney
- anxiety | - women
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Basic Anxiety
- Horney - everyone has a basic anxiety in childhood that disrupts our security - leads to neurosis (mild mental illness)
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Erikson
- social | - identity
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Identity Crisis
- Erikson - time during which people decide who they are - a solution must be found in all 8 stages in order to form a firm identity
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Bandura
-Bobo doll study
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Reciprocal Determinism/Triadic Reciprocity Model
-behavior, environment, and personal factors all account and Effect personality
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Self Efficacy
- important personal factor - beliefs about your own abilities - performance standard
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Observational Learning
-learn behaviors by observing and imitating others
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Rotter
- personality is a stable set of responses to situations | - learning creates expectations
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Locus of control
- internal: WE control our success and failures | - external: what happens to us is decided by fate
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Learned Helplessness
-when you aren't able to avoid bad events you become passive and give up
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Mischel and person-situation theory
- everyone had unique beliefs, feelings, and expectations (cognitive variables) - to predict behavior know cognitive variables and situation
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Allport
-traits combine into 1 personality
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Cardinal traits
- allport | - 1 defining trait
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Primary Traits
- allport | - major characteristics
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Secondary Traits
- allport - representation of attitudes - ex) nervous to give a talk, but not a defining trait
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Catell
- certain clusters of traits represent a basic part of personality - 16 basic source Traits (fundamental)
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Eysenck
-3 different source Traits based on biology
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3 Personality Dimensions
- Eysenck - introversion to extroversion - neuroticism to emotionally stable - psychotisism
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5 Factor Model (OCEAN)
- openness (creativity) - conscientiousness (organized) - extraversion - agreeableness - neuroticism (anxious, tense, worried)
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Type A vs. Type B
-type A high strung, anxious while type B is more relaxed
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Libido
-Freud's idea of the sexual energy that drives us
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Personal Interviews
- structured with set questions | - unstructured which is basically a normal convo
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Observation
- looking at someone's behaviors | - doesn't rely on self-report but is expensive
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Objective Tests
- given and scored according to standard procedures - relies on self report - ex) 16 PFQ
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Projective Tests
- ambiguous stimuli draw out an unlimited number of responses that reveal something about the unconscious - ex) ink blot
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Reliability vs. Validity
- R: does it produce consistent scores | - V: does it test what it is supposed to
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Actualizing Tendency
- Rogers | - humans are inclined toward growth and fulfillment
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Fully Functioning Person
- Rogers | - exploring, match between real and idealized self, in touch with feelings and abilities, trust instincts
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Self Concept
- our feelings and thoughts about ourselves | - real vs. ideal selves
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Positive Regard
- warmth and love from a significant other - conditional: love dependent on acting a certain way - unconditional: full acceptance regardless
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Maslow Hierarchy of Needs
- hierarchy of motives | - distracted from self actualization because focused on lower level needs
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Womb Envy
- horney - reaction against penis envy - men jealous of women's nurturing abilities
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Humanistic
- people are inherently good - have free will and are responsible for their lives - can grow psychologically
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Person Variables
- Mischel - unique and used to predict behavior - competencies: smarts/social skills - perceptions: ppl perceive events differently - expectations: expected results of different behavior - subject values: value of each possible outcome - self regulation and plan: rules ppl use to regulate their behavior
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Object relations
- part of psychodynamic | - studies how important relationships affect psychological health

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