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Week 10 Flashcards

1
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What is personality

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A person’s unique, fairly consistent pattern of behaving, feeling, and thinking

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What are the three levels of consciousness

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Conscious, preconscious, and unconscious (unconscious thoughts are the most important)

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What is repression

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Occurs when threatening thoughts or feelings are kept in the unconscious mind.

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4
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What are the three structures of our personality

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id: Inborn biological drives
ego: Directs us to express biological drives in a socially acceptable
superego: moral guide

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5
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What are defence mechanism

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Distortions of reality that allow individuals to escape from feelings of anxiety

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6
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Regression

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Reversion of immature behaviours that have helped alleviate feelings of anxiety in the past

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7
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Rationlization

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Providing socially acceptable reasons to justify inappropriate behaviour

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Diesplacement

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Expressing feelings to a person who is less threatening in place of the more threatening target of those feelings

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9
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Projection

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Taking your own undesirable feelings and attributing them to others

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10
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Reaction formation

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Acting in a manner that is opposite to what you are feeling

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Sublimation

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Using socially acceptable outlets for sexual or aggressive impulses

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12
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What is fixation and what did Freud believe

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Failure to mature beyond a certain psychosexual stage of development. Freud believed that personality stays at 5 years

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13
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What is an inferiority complex

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Motivates individuals to strive for surperiority

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14
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What is social interest

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When the striving helps others and oneself which is the healthiest way to overcome an inferiority complex

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15
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What is the personal unconscious

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The individuals unconscious mind which is the home of repressed memories

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16
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What is the collective unconscious

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The unconscious mind that is shared by everyone with archetypes passed down by ancestors

17
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What are archetypes

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Images that represent critical aspects shared by humanity

18
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What is basic anxiety

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Children develop this because of physical and emotional dependence on their parents

19
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What is basic hostility

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Children must suppress this emotional response in order to gain love from their parents

20
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What are the three coping mechanism

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  • Moving toward others
  • Moving against others
  • Moving away from others
21
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What is the Rorschach test

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Individuals will reveal what they see in ink plots

22
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What is the Thematic Apperception Test

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People are shown 19 cards they must make stories about and then make a story of 1 blank card

23
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What is a trait

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A fairly enduring characteristic that is inferred by a persons behaviour. Traits are cross-situationally consistent

24
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What is Allport’s trait theory

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There are three kinds of traits

  • Cardinal traits-Affect every aspect of a persons life
  • Central traits-Affects many aspects of a persons life
  • Secondary traits-Affects few aspects of a persons life
25
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What are the three dimensions of personality

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  • Neuroticism
  • Psychoticism
  • Extraversion
26
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What is the purpose of the MMPI

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To diagnose psychological disorders

27
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What is reciprocal determinism

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Overt behaviour, environmental factors, and personality traits affect each other

28
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Self-efficacy

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Belief that a person has that they can perform the behaviours required to perform a certain outcome

29
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Collective efficacy

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Belief a person has that a group can perform the behaviours required for a certain outcome

30
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Experience-sampling method

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A participant carries around a beeper that goes off at random times and the participant tells how they feel at that time

31
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What is the locus of control scales

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Measures the degree to which you think you have control over the outcome of the behaviour

32
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What is the self actualization theory

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An individuals desire to fulfill they’re potential

33
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What is are the big 5 traits and what is their heritability coefficients

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-Conscientiousness
-Agreeableness
-Neuroticism
-Openness
-Extraversion
All these traits have a heritability coefficient of about 0.5

34
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What are temperaments

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responding in certain ways to environmental stimuli and are very stable over time and have a strong influence over personality traits

35
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What are the results of high levels of stress in more reactive kids

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Higher cortisol, epinephrine, and norepinephrine. Higher heart rate and neural activity

36
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What is a non-shared environment

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A unique element of ones environment that aren’t experience by others

37
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Why is the belief that parental involvement is a personality deciding factor flawed

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  1. The shared environment on the home has little effect on personality
  2. A minority of parents give one treatment to only one child

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