Z Unit 10 Psychology

Question 0

Free association

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Saying whatever comes to your mind without trying to limit or evaluate your response

Question 1

Personality

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An individual’s characteristic pattern of thinking, feeling, and acting

Question 2

Unconscious according to Frued

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Our thoughts that we are not aware of, wishes, feelings, and memories

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Repression

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Banishes anxiety a rousing wishes and feelings from consciousness

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Freudian slips

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What’s on your unconscious mind comes out

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Projective test

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A psychological x- Ray by asking test takers to describe an ambiguous stimulus or tell a story about it

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Frued’s belief on dreams

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Manifest and latent content

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Manifest content and latent content

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Manifest- actual storyline

Latent- untold story in your unconscious

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Id

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The devil. Unconscious psychic energy constantly striving to satisfy basic drives to survive, reproduce, and aggress

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Ego

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The balance. The reality principle seeking to gratify the id’s impulses in realistic ways to bring long term pleasure

Question 10

Superego

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The angle. The voice of our moral compass that forces the who to consider not only the real but the ideal

Question 11

Psychosexual stages

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Oral 
Anal 
Phallic 
Latency 
Genital

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Fixation

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The state in which an individual becomes obsessed with an attachment to another person, being, or object

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Defense mechanisms

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Regression- formal state
Repression- banishing feelings
Reaction formation- switching impulses
Projection- blaming on someone else
Rationalization- self justifying explanations
Displacement- shifting sexual or aggressive to object
Sublimation- transferring impulses to valued motives
Denial- refuse to believe

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Neo- Freudians

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Believed Freud was incorrect in saying that personality is shaped almost entirely by childhood events

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Humanistic theory on personalities

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

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Maslow

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Hierarchy of needs and studied self actualization processes of productive and healthy people

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Carl Rogers

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Focussed on the growth and fulfillment of individuals. Humanist

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Self actualization

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The motivation to fulfill one’s potential

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3 things needed according to Rogers

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Genuiness
Acceptance
Empathy

Question 20

Unconditioned positive regard

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An attitude of total acceptance towards another person

Question 21

Self concept

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

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Criticisms of psychoanalysis

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Too much emphasis on unconscious

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Criticisms of humanist

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Too feel good and fuzzy and doesn’t account for bad people

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Criticisms of trait theorist

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Doesn't account for environment

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MMPI

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The most widely researched and clinically used of all personality tests

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MBTI

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Myers Briggs type indicator personality test

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Factor analysis

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A type of statistical procedure that is conducted to identify clusters or groups of related items on a test

Question 28

Barnum effect

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People identify with and sand easily accept information that is favorable to them and/ or their personal belief system

Question 29

Big Five Traits

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Openness- appreciation for art and ideas Conscientiousness- planned behavior, self discipline Extraversion- urgency to seek stimulation in the company of others Agreeableness- a tendency to be compassionate and trusting Neuroticism- a tendency to experience unpleasant emotions easily

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What does a social cognitive therapist believe

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Views behavior as influenced by the interaction between people's traits and their social context

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Reciprocal determinism

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The interacting influences of behavior, internal cognition, and environment

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Self efficacy

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One's sense of competence and effectiveness

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Internal locus of control

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You know the reason why you did well on a test was because you studied

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External locus of control

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Everything is based on faith you think things are your fault and think you're a failure.

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Learned helplessness

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An organism forced to endure unpleasant or painful stimuli so they think they can't get out even if they can

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Positive psychology

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The scientific study of optimal human functioning; aims to discover and promote strengths and virtues that enable individuals and communities to thrive

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Spotlight effect

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Overestimating other's noticing and evaluating our appearance, performance, and blunders

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Self serving bias

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A readiness to perceive oneself's favorability

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Trait theory

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Want to describe way people act not why they act that way Gordon Allport