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UNIT 8 Flashcards

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personality

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  • enduring set of characteristics that define our individuality and affect our interactions with the environment and other people
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personality traits

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  • stable patterns of thoughts, feelings, and behaviors
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personality states

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  • short-term patterns of thoughts, feelings, and behaviors
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personality factors

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  • groups of personality traits that occur together in most individuals
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five-factor model

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  • inventory of five basic personality factors first demonstrated by Costa and McCrae
  • N.E.O.A.C
  • Revised NEO personality Inventory
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differential continuity

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  • stability of individuals’ rank order within a group over time
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mean-level change

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  • changes in a group’s average scores over time
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intra-individual variability

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  • stability or instability of personality traits within an individual over time
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person-environment transactions

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  • combinations of genetic endowment and environmental factors that maintain the stability of personality traits over time
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reactive transactions

person-environment transactions

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  • take place when we react to, or interpret, an experience in a way that is CONSISTENT with our own personality or self-concept
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evocative transaction

person-environment transactions

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  • in which we behave in a way that elicits reactions from others that CONFIRM our own personality or self-concept
  • low esteem = reject compliments
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proactive transactions

person-environment transactions

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  • we select roles and environments that BEST FIT our personalities and self-concept
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manipulative transaction

person-environment transactions

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  • strategies in which we attempt to CHANGE our current environments by causing change in the people around us
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reactive heritability

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  • process whereby individuals use the qualities they have inherited as a basis to determine strategies for survival and reproduction
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identity
stage 5
(Erikson)

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  • the set of personal values and goals a young adult develops pertaining to gender, occupation, and religious beliefs
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intimacy
stage 6
(Erikson)

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  • the ability young adults develop that allows them to enter into intimate relationships without losing their own sense of self
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generativity
stage 7
(Erikson)

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  • tendency middle-aged adults develop to help establish and guide the next generation
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ego integrity
stage 8
(Erikson)

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  • tendency older adults develop to review their life for meaning and integration
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defense mechanism
(mature adaptation)
(Vaillant)

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  • the set of normal, unconscious strategies used for dealing with anxiety
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gender crossover

Gutmann

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  • relaxation of gender roles that is hypothesized to occur in men and women when the parenting years are over
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self-actualization

Maslow

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  • the drive to become everything that one is capable of being
  • reached when more basic needs are met
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self-actualization

Maslow

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  • the drive to become everything that one is capable of being
  • reached when more basic needs are met
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peak experiences

Maslow

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  • positive well-being

- feeling of perfection and momentary separation from the self when one feels in unity with the universe

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positive psychology

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  • emphasis of psychology research to turn away from negative outcomes, such as mental illness and crime, adn toward positive outcomes
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self-determination theory

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  • explanation of personality based on individual’s evolved inner resources for growth and integration
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neuroticism (N)

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  • anxiety
  • hostility
  • self-consciousness
  • depression
  • impulsiveness
  • vulnerability
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extraversion (E)

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  • warm
  • gregariousness
  • assertiveness
  • activity
  • excitement seeking
  • positive emotions
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social vitality

extraversion

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  • warmth
  • gregariousness
  • positive emotions
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social dominance
(extraversion)
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  • assertiveness
  • excitement seeking
  • activity
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openness (O)

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  • fantasy
  • aesthetics
  • action
  • ideas
  • values
  • strong feelings
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agreeableness (A)

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  • trust in others
  • altruistic
  • sincerity
  • compliance
  • modesty
  • sympathy
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conscientiousness (C)

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  • sense of competence
  • orderliness
  • sense of responsibility
  • achievement striving
  • deliberateness
  • self-discipline
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epigenetic principle

Erikson psychosocial

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  • each psychosocial strength has its own period of importance, but the issue remains of concern throughout life
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biological and parental

McAdam 5 types of generativity

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  • children
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technical

McAdam 5 types of generativity

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  • skills
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cultural

McAdam 5 types of generativity

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  • mentoring
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agentic

McAdam 5 types of generativity

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  • transcending death

- legacy

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communal

McAdam 5 types of generativity

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  • mutual interpersonal reality
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  1. impulsive

Loevingers theory of ego development

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  • separate active humans
  • no control
  • egocentric and dependent
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  1. self protective

Loevingers theory of ego development

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  • control over impulse

- focus on what is advantageous to self

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  1. conformist

Loevingers theory of ego development

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  • following and creating rules
  • get along with others
  • cooperate adn sense of belonging
  • loyalty
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  1. self-awareness

Loevingers theory of ego development

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  • separate social norms from own actions
  • understanding that they won’t live up to standards
  • may lead to loneliness or self-consciousness
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  1. conscientious

Loevingers theory of ego development

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  • form own ideas and rules
  • own realization
  • consciously deciding what is going to work for them
  • long term goals
  • express inner life
  • interpersonal relationships
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  1. individualistic

Loevingers theory of ego development

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  • process > outcome
  • journey is more important
  • how we live life
  • psychological causes
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  1. autonomous

Loevingers theory of ego development

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  • respect for autonomy for others

- goals are similar but journey is different from everyone

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  1. integrated

Loevingers theory of ego development

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  • resolve inner conflict
  • people have different path
  • sense of connection with others
  • respect
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career consolidation stage

Vaillants Theory of Mature Adaptation

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  • establishing competence or a work reputation

- between stage 6 and 7

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mature adaptation

Vaillants Theory of Mature Adaptation

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  • progressive changes in ability to deal with life stress
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  1. altruism

Vaillants defense mechanism

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  • high adaptive level

- distract yourself

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  1. repression

Vaillants defense mechanism

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  • mental inhibition level

- suppress stressful thoughts

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  1. omnipotence

Vaillants defense mechanism

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  • minor image distortion level
  • focus on positive things
  • ignore stress
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  1. denial

Vaillants defense mechanism

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  • disavowal level
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  1. autistic fantasy and wishful

Vaillants defense mechanism

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  • major image distortion level
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  1. rejecting help and then complaining/help-rejecting complaining
    (Vaillants defense mechanism)
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  • action level
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deficiency motives
(Maslow self-actualization)
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  • insticts or drives to maintain physical or emotional imbalance
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being motives

Maslow self-actualization

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  • motives to know and understanding, giving affection, and personal fulfillment of potential
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peak experiences

Maslow self-actualization

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  • feelings of perfection adn moments when we understand our place in universe
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hedonia

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  • happiness that involves the presence of positive feelings and absence of negative feelings
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eudaimonia

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  • integrity and well-being self

- competence, autonomy, relatedness

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competence

Eudaimonia

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  • feeling of effectiveness as we interact with environment

- modifying the environment

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autonomy

Eudaimonia

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  • feeling of in control of our actions

- inner selves

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relatedness

Eudaimonia

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  • being connected to, cared about, and belonging with others that are important to us
  • changes with age
  • positive outcomes

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