Unit 10 Personality

Question 1

An individuals characteristic pattern of thinking, feeling, and acting

Answer 1

Personality

Question 2

Method of exploring the unconscious in which the person relaxes and says whatever comes to mind

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Free association

Question 3

Freuds theory of personality that attributes thoughts and actions to unconscious motives and conflicts

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Psychoanalysis

Question 4

Reservoir of mostly unacceptable thoughts, wishes, feelings , and memories

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Unconscious

Question 5

Reservoir of unconscious psychic energy that strives to basic sexual and aggressive drives

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id

Question 6

Largely conscious

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Ego

Question 7

Part of personality that represents internalized ideals and provides standards for judgment

Answer 7

Superego

Question 8

Childhood stages of development where the ids pleasure seeking energies focus on distinct erogenous zones

Answer 8

Psychosexual stages

Question 9

A boys sexual desires toward his mother and feelings of jealousy and hatred for the rival father

Answer 9

Oedipus complex

Question 10

Process by which children incorporate their parents values into there developing superegos

Answer 10

Identification

Question 11

A lingering focus of pleasure seeking energies at an earlier psychosexual stage in which conflicts were unresolved

Answer 11

Fixation

Question 12

In psychoanalytic the egos protective methods of reducing anxiety by unconsciously distorting reality

Answer 12

Defense mechanisms

Question 13

In psychoanalytic theory the basic defense mechanism that banishes from consciousness anxiety arousing thoughts, feelings, and memories

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Repression

Question 14

Modern day approaches that view personality with focus on the unconscious and the importance of childhood experiences

Answer 14

Psychodynamic theories

Question 15

Carl jungs concept of a shared, inherited reservoir of memory traces from our species history

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Collective unconscious

Question 16

Personality test

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Projective test

Question 17

Projective test in which people express their inner feelings and interests through the stories they make up about ambiguous scenes

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TAT

Question 18

Most widely used projective test a set of 10 ink blots, designed by Hermann Rorschach; seeks to identify people’s inner feelings by analyzing their interpretations of blots

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Rorschach ink blot test

Question 19

The tendency to overestimate the extent to which others share our beliefs and our behaviors

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False consensus effect

Question 20

A theory of death realated anxiety

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Terror management theory

Question 21

View personality with a focus on the potential for healthy personal growth

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Humanistic theories

Question 22

One of the ultimate psychological needs that arises after basic physical and psychological needs are met and self esteem is achieved

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Self actualization

Question 23

According to rogers an attitude of total acceptance toward another person

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Unconditional positive regard

Question 24

All our thoughts and feelings about ourselves in answer to the question who am I

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Self - concept

Question 25

A characteristic pattern behavior or a disposition to feel and act, as assessed by self-report inventories and peer reports

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Trait

Question 26

A questionnaire

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Personality inventory

Question 27

Most widely used researched and clinically used of all personality tests

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MMPI

Question 28

A test developed by testing a pool of items and then selecting those that discriminate between groups

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Empirically derived test

Question 29

Views behavior as influenced by the interaction between peoples traits and their social context

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Social cognitive perspective

Question 30

In personality theory this perspective focuses on the effects of learning on our personality development

Answer 30

Behavioral approach

Question 31

The interacting influences of behavior, internal cognition, and environment

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Reciprocal determinism

Question 32

Scientific study of optimal human functioning

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Positive psychology

Question 33

In contemporary psychology assumed I be the center of personality, the organizer of our thoughts, feelings, and actions

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Self

Question 34

Overestimating others noticing and evaluating our appearance, performance, and blunders

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Spotlight effect

Question 35

Ones feelings of high or low self worth

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Self-esteem

Question 36

Ones sense of competence and effectiveness

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Self-efficiency

Question 37

A readiness to perceive oneself favorably

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Self-serving bias

Question 38

Excessive self-love and self-absorption

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Narcissism

Question 39

Giving priority to ones goals over group goals and defining ones identity in terms of personal attributes rather than group identifications

Answer 39

Individualism

Question 40

Giving priority to the goals of ones group and defining ones identity accordingly

Answer 40

Collectivism