Unit 10 (Modules 55-57) Flashcards by Madeline K

An individual’s characteristic pattern of thinking, feeling and acting can be called what?

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personality

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What kind of personality theory organizes people into different sorts of individuals?

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type theory

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What kind of personality theory lists classifiable characteristics that add together in different combinations and to different degrees to make a unique personality?

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trait theory

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A person who is ambitious and has a competitive personality, according to one type theory, can be called what?

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type-a

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A person who is laid-back and has a relaxed personality, according to one type theory, can be called what?

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type-b

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What trait theory focuses on placing people on a continuum for each of three personality traits: psychoticism, exraversion, and neuroticism?

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pen model

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What PEN trait corresponds to aggression and non-conformity?

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psychoticism

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What PEN trait corresponds to thriving on external stimulation and is also a member of the Big Five?

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extraversion

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What PEN trait corresponds to anxiety and fight-or-flight stress response, and is also a member of the Big Five?

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neuroticism

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What trait theory reorganizes and builds on the PEN traits, keeping extraversion and neuroticism, and adding openness to experience, conscientiousness, and agreeableness? Can also be remembered by using the mnemonic OCEAN.

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big five

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What Big Five trait corresponds to curiousity vs caution?

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openness to experience (openness)

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What Big Five trait corresponds to organization vs carelessness?

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conscientiousness

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What Big Five trait corresponds to friendliness vs detachment?

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agreeableness

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What theory maintains the idea that personality is heavil influenced by genes?

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biopsychological approach

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What theory maintains the idea that personalityis heavily influenced by environment and experience?

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behaviorist approach

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What theory maintains the idea that personality both shapes and is shaped by environment?

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social cognitive perspective

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What personality theory explains behaviors by looking at unconscious drives and feelings?

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psychoanalytic/psychodynamic perspective

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What model divides the conscious and unconscious mind into the id, ego, and superego?

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structural model

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What part of the personality consists of all the basic, primal urges and instincts to survive and reproduce?

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What describes the drive for instant gratification and catharsis (the relief of pent-up tension)?

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pleasure principle

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What style of thought is generated by the id and is simple, primal, and aimed at seeking, pleasrue and avoiding pain?

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primary process

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What can be described as the use of fantasy to imagine satisfying an urge that would unacceptable to act out?

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wish fulfillment

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What part of the personality is focused on creating the ideal self?

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superego

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What part of the superego responds wih feelings of pride when you overcome the urges of the id?

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ego-ideal

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What part of the personality suppresses the needs of the id and superego? ## Footnote Modules 55-57

ego

What part of the superego causes feelings of guilt when you succumb to the urges of the id? ## Footnote Modules 55-57

conscience

What can be described as the ego's drive to put off instant gratification and fulfill desires in socially acceptable ways? ## Footnote Modules 55-57

reality principle

What style of thought that is generated by the ego seeks to relieve the tension caused by delaying gratification? ## Footnote Modules 55-57

secondary process

What can be described as the ego's means of denying, distorting, or falsifying reality to reducethe anxiety caused by the clash between the id and the superego? ## Footnote Modules 55-57

defense mechanism

What defense mechanism is marked by pushing an unwanted or socially unacceptable feeling out of conscious awareness? ## Footnote Modules 55-57

repression

What defense mechanism is marked by consciously setting aside thoughts or feelings that would be unhelpful in the current situation? ## Footnote Modules 55-57

suppression

What defense mechanism is marked by reverting to an earlier stae of emotiona lor mental development in response to stress? ## Footnote Modules 55-57

regression

What defense mechanism is marked by turning an unwanted thought or feeling into its opposite? ## Footnote Modules 55-57

reaction formation

What defense mechanism is marked by attributing your own unwanted feelings to others? ## Footnote Modules 55-57

projection

What defense mechanism is marked by justifying unaccptable behaviors to make them more acceptable to yourself or others and to hide your true motivations? ## Footnote Modules 55-57

rationalization

What defense mechanism is marked by redirecting an unwanted feeling from one target to another? ## Footnote Modules 55-57

displacement

What defense mechanism is marked by transforming an undesirable feeling or drive into a socially accepable one? ## Footnote Modules 55-57

sublimation

What can be described as any part of the personality or memory that is not curently conscious because it has been forgotten or repressed? ## Footnote Modules 55-57

personal unconscious

What can be described as the instincts and emotionally-charged symbols shared among all peopel due to our common ancestry, according to Jung? ## Footnote Modules 55-57

collective unconscious

One of the emotional instincts or symbols that make up a person's personality is called what? ## Footnote Modules 55-57

archetype

What archetye represents a man's feminine qualities? ## Footnote Modules 55-57

anima

What archetype represents a women's masculine qualities? ## Footnote Modules 55-57

animus

A person's feelings of incompleteness or imperfection that lead to striving for superiority can be called what? ## Footnote Modules 55-57

inferiority complex

What can be described as the feelings of anxiety or helplessness caused by inadequate parenting? ## Footnote Modules 55-57

basic anxiety

What can be described as anger caused by parental neglect or rejection? ## Footnote Modules 55-57

basic hostility

What personality theory focuses on the positive aspects of personality and the way in which healthy people strive toward self-realization? ## Footnote Modules 55-57

humanistic perspective/theories

What self-report questionaire tends to focus on types or traits? ## Footnote Modules 55-57

objective tests

What objective test sorts people into personality types based on four continua: Extraversion (E) versus Introversion (I), Sensing (S) versus Intuition (N), Thinking (T) versus Feeling (F), and Judging (J) versus Perceiving (P)? ## Footnote Modules 55-57

myers-briggs type indicator (mbti)

What objective test is used to assess both personality traits and the presence of psychological disorders? ## Footnote Modules 55-57

minesota multiphasic personality inventory (mmpi-2)

What personality test is based on theidea that people will interpret ambiguous stimuli in ways that reflect their unconscious thoughts and feelings? ## Footnote Modules 55-57

projective tests

What projective test asks participant to describe what they in abstract designs? ## Footnote Modules 55-57

roschach inkblot test

What projective test presents participants with a series of images and ask them to tell a story about what is happening (making up a story)? ## Footnote Modules 55-57

thematic apperception test (tat)

What psychoanalyst disagreed with Freud over the importance of sexual desires forming the personality (believed that it was social desires) and originated the concept of the inferiority complex? ## Footnote Modules 55-57

alfred adler

Who sought to move psychoanalysis away from sexuality-and male-focused ideas; maintained that inadequate parenting can lead to basic anxiety or basic hostility? (also disagreed with Freud on sexual desires forming the personality and believed it was instead social desires) ## Footnote Modules 55-57

karen horney

Which two people expanded and reorganized the PEN trait model into the Big Five or OCEAN model of personaliy traits? ## Footnote Modules 55-57

* paul costa * robert mccrae

Which two trait theorists originated the PEN model of personality? ## Footnote Modules 55-57

hans & sybil eysenck

Who was the founder of psychoanalysis who developed the structural model, which states that the mind is made up of the id, ego and superego? ## Footnote Modules 55-57

sigmund freud

Which psychoanalyst stated that the unconscious midncan be divided into hte personal and collective unconscious, the latter of which contains archetypes? ## Footnote Modules 55-57

carl jung

Who is known for their systematic, scientific study of sexual behavior, who developed the Kinsey Scale to describe sexual oritentation? ## Footnote Modules 55-57

alfred kinsey

Who developed the theory of motivation called the hierarchy of needs, made up of five levels of needs, and claimed that lower-level needs must be satisfied before higher-level needs? ## Footnote Modules 55-57

abraham maslow

Which two people researched sexual arousal and proposed a four-stage human response cycle? ## Footnote Modules 55-57

* william masters * virginia johnson

What kind of theories view personality with a focus on the unconscious and the importace of childhod experiences? ## Footnote Module 55

psychodynamic theories

What theory of personality created by Freud attributes thoughts and actions to unconscious motives and conflicts; the techniques used in treating psychological disorders by seeking to expose and interpret unconscious tensions? ## Footnote Modules 55

psychoanlysis

According to Freud, what is a reservoir of mostly unacceptable thoughts, wishes, feelings, and memories? According to contemporary psychologists, what can be classified as information processing of which we are unware? ## Footnote Modules 55

unconscious

In psychoanalysis, what method explores the unconscious through a person's relaxation and then having them say whatever comes to mind, no matter how trivial or embarassing? ## Footnote Modules 55

free association

What can be described as the childhood stages of development (oral, phallic, latency, genital) during which, according to Freud, the id's pleasure-seeking energies focus on distinct erogenous zones? ## Footnote Modules 55

psychosexual stages

What is the first stage in Freud's psychosexual stages? ## Footnote Modules 55

oral | (pleasure focuses on mouth)

What is the second stage in Freud's psychosexual stages? ## Footnote Modules 55

anal | (pleasure focuses on control of bowels and bladder)

What is the third stage in Freud's psychosexual stages? ## Footnote Modules 55

phallic | (focuses on genitals and incestuous sexual feelings)

What is the fourth stage in Freud's psychosexual stages? ## Footnote Modules 55

latency | (phase in which sexual feelings are dormant)

What is the fifth and final stage in Freud's psychosexual stages? ## Footnote Modules 55

genital | (focuses on sexual interests)

According to Freud, what is a boy's sexual desires towards his mother, and feelings of jealousy and hatred for the rival father, called? ## Footnote Modules 55

oedipus complex

In Freud's psychosexual stages, where does the oedipus complex occur (what stage?)? ## Footnote Modules 55

[the] phallic stage

What can be described as the process by which, according to Freud, children incorporate their parents' values into their developing superegos? ## Footnote Modules 55

identification

In one of Freud's psychoanalytic theory, a lingering focus of pleasure-seeking energies at an earlier psychosexual stage, in which conflicts were unresolved, is called what? ## Footnote Modules 55

fixation

What was Carl Jung's concept of a shared, inherited reservoir of memory traces from our species history called? ## Footnote Modules 55

collective unconscious

What theory focues on death-related anxiety; explores people's emotional and behavioral responses to reminders of their impending death? ## Footnote Modules 55

terror-management theory

In Maslow's hierarchy of needs, which one is one of the ultimate psychological needs that arises after basic physical and psychological needs are met and self-esteem is achieved; the motivation to fulfill one's potential? ## Footnote Modules 56

self actualization

According to Maslow, the striving for identity, meaning and purpose beyond the self is called what? ## Footnote Modules 56

self transcendence

What is a caring, nonjudgementl attitude, which Carl Rogers believed would help people develop self-awareness and self acceptance, called? ## Footnote Modules 56

unconditional positive regard

What can be described as all our thoughts and feelings about ourselves, in answer to the question "Who am I?"? ## Footnote Modules 56

self concept

What can be described as a questionaire (often with true-false or agree-disagree items) on which people respond to items designed to gauge a wide range of feelings and behaviors; used to assess selected personality traits? ## Footnote Modules 57

personality inventory

What test (such as the MMPI) revolved around selecting from a pool of items, those that discriminate between groups? ## Footnote Modules 57

empirically derived tset

What school of psychology does Sigmund Freud belong too? (what type of psychology?) ## Footnote Modules 55-57

psychoanalysis (psychodynamic)

Waht school of psychology does Abraham Maslow belong too? (what type of psychology?) ## Footnote Modules 55-57

humanistic

What school of psychology does Carl Rogers belong too? (what type of psychology?) ## Footnote Modules 55-57

humanistic

What school of psychology does Alfred Adler belong too? (what type of psychology?) ## Footnote Modules 55-57

psychoanalysis (psychodynamic)

What type of theorist is most likely to assess people's personalities by having them draw pictures, in the hope that the drawings will reveal underlying personality characteristics? ## Footnote Modules 55-57

psychoanalytical

What school of psychology does B. F. Skinner belong too? (what type of psychology?) ## Footnote Modules 55-57

behaviorist

What school of psychology does John B. Watson? (what type of psychology?) ## Footnote Modules 55-57

behaviorist

Unit 10 (Modules 55-57) Flashcards

personality + theories + tests, psychoanalysts