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psych lab
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Term | Definition |
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character | value judgment of a person's moral and ethical behavior |
temperament | the enduring characteristics with which each person is born |
unconscious mind | level of the mid in which thought, feeling memories and other information are kept that are not easily or voluntarily brought into consciousness |
ID | part of the personality present at birth and completely unconscious |
Ego | part of the personality that develops out of a need to deal with reality, mostly conscious, rational, and logical |
superego | part of the personality that acts as a moral center |
fully functioning person | a person who is in touch with and trusting of the deepest, innermost urges and feelings |
id self | one perception of who one should be or would like to be |
interview | method of personality assessment in which the professional asks questions of the clients and allow the client to answer, either in a structured or unstructured fashion |
neo-freudians | follower of Freud who developed their own, competing psycho dynamic theories |
defense mechanisms | unconscious distortions of person perception of reality that reduce stress and anxiety |
projective test | personality ASSESSMENT that person visual stimuli to the client ans ask the client to respond with whatever come to mind |
real self | one perception of actual characteristics,traits, and abilities |
self-actualizing tendency | the striving to fulfill ones innate capacities and capabilities |
self-concept | the image of oneself that develop from interactions with important, significant people in one life |
self-efficacy | individual expectancy of how effective his or her efforts to accomplish a goal will be in any particular circumstance |
social cognitive learning theorists | learning theory that includes cognitive processes such as anticipating, judging, memory and imitation of models |
locus of control | the tendency for people to assume that they either have control or do not have control over event and consequences in their lives. |
ideal self | one perception of who one should be or would like to be |
conditional positive regard | positive regard that is given only when the person is doing what the providers of postie regard wish |
unconditional positive regard | positive regard that is given without conditions or strings attached |
project test |