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Personality

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Personality   Individual’s unique constellation of consistent behavioral traits. Depends on consistency and distinctiveness  
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Consistency   Stability in personality over time and situations  
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Distinctiveness   Behavioral differences between people reaction to the same situation  
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Factor analysis   Correlations among many variables analyzed to identify related clusters  
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Extraversion   Personality trait - Outgoing, sociable, friendly  
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Neuroticism   Personality trait - Anxious, hostile, insecure, self-conscious  
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Openness to experience   Personality trait - Curiosity, flexibility, vivid fantasy, imaginativeness, artistic, unconventional attitudes  
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Agreeableness   Personality trait - If high, sympathetic, trusting, cooperative, modest, trustworthy. If low, suspicious, antagonistic, aggressive  
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Conscientiousness   Personality trait - Diligent, disciplined, well-organized, punctual, dependable  
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Id   Freud personality - Primitive, instinctive component - pleasure principle - raw biological urges. Primary process thinking - primitive, illogical, irrational, fantasy oriented  
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Ego   Freud personality - Decision making component - operates according to reality principle - between urges of id and constraints of society. Secondary process thinking - rational, realistic, problem solving  
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Superego   Fredu personality - moral component. Incorporates social standards  
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Preconscious   Awareness level just beneath surface of awareness - easily retreived  
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Conscious   Awareness level of what one is aware of at a time  
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Unconscious   Awareness level of thoughts, memories, desires below awareness that still influence behavior  
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Repression   Def. mech where one keeps distressing thoughts in unconscious  
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Projection   Def. mech where one attributes one's feelings towards someone else  
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Displacement   Def. mech where one diverts emotional feelings from original to different source  
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Reaction formation   Def. mech where one acts in opposite way than actually feeling  
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Regression   Def. mech where one reverts to immature patterns of behavior  
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Rationalization   Def. mech where one creates false but plausible excuses to justify unacceptable behavior  
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Identification   Dfe. mech where one bolts self-esteem by forming imaginary / real alliance with someone else  
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Sublimation   Def. mech where one channels unacceptable instinctive drives to socially acceptable ways  
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Psychosexual stages   Developmental periods with characteristic sexual focus that leave their mark on adult personality  
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Fixation   Failure to move from one stage to another of development  
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Stage 1 (p.s.)   Oral. 0-1. Erotic focus mouth. Key task is weaning (solid food). Fixation if smokes / overeats  
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Stage 2 (p.s)   Anal. 2-3. Erotic focus anal. Key task is toilet training. Fixation if hostile or anxious  
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Stage 3 (p.s)   Phallic. 4-5. Erotic focus genitals. Key task is oedipal complex.  
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Stage 4 (p.s)   Latency. 6-12. No erotic focus. Key task is expanding social constructs  
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Stage 5 (p.s)   Genital. Erotic focus genitals. Puberty+. Key task is establishing intimate relationships  
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Personal unconscious   Jung's theory - houses material not within one's conscious awareness because repressed or forgoteen  
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Collective unconscious   Jung's theory - houses material of latent memory traces inherited from people's ancestral past. Shared by all humans  
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Archetypes   Emotionally charged images and thought forms w/ universal meaning.  
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Introverts   Jung's thought of people occupied with internal world of own thoughts, feelings, experiences  
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Extroverts   Jung's thought of people interested in external world of people and things  
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Compensation   Adler's idea that people try to conceal inferiorities by developing abilities  
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Overcompensation   Adler's idea that people hide inferiorities, work to achieve status, gain power over others  
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Reciprocal determinism   Idea that internal mental events, external mental events, and overt behavior all influence each other  
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Mischel   Argued that behavior is situationally specific, and consistency is low throughout situations. Controversial b/c if no consistency, no need for 'personality'  
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Self concept   Collection of beliefs about one's own nature, unique qualities, and behavior. Many times distorted to be positive  
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Incongruence   Degree of disparity between self concept and actual experience. If too large, undermines one's psychological well being  
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Roger   He was concerned with what children believe within themselves and their reality, as well as parents' beliefs of them  
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Conditional love   Type of love where children block out self-concept and feel unworthy. Leads to incongruence  
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Unconditional love   Type of love where children do not feel need to block out unworthy experiences. Leads to congruence  
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Hierarchy of needs   Systematic arrangement of needs, according to priority. Basic needs > less basic needs  
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Physiological needs, safety, love, self-esteem, cognitive, aesthetic, self-actualization   Maslow's theory of self-actualization stages  
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Open and spontaneous, enjoy peak experiences, strong and limited friendships, philosophical, not hostile sense of humor   Characteristics of self-actualized people  
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Superficial traits   Derived from a smaller number of basic traits derived from higher order traits  
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Extroversion   Eysenck's high order trait - sociable, assertive, active  
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Neuroticism   Eysenck's high order trait - anxiety, tense, moody, low self-esteem  
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Psychoticism   Eysenck's high order trait - egocentrism, impulsive, cold, antisocial  
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Eysench's theory - biological perspective   Believed that personality was mostly genetic  
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40-58%   Percentage of heritability that varies with genetics  
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Locus of Control   Expectancy of degree in which individuals control outcomes  
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External locus of control   Expecting successes and failures to be by chance  
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Internal locus of control   Expecting successes and failures to be by one's effort  
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Sensation seeking   General preference for high / low levels of sensory stimulation (high / low)  
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Self monitoring   Degree to which people attend to or control impression they make on others (high / low)  
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Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI)   Personality test that scores 10 personality characteristics like paranoia, depression, and social introversion  
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Raymond Cattell - 16 Personality Factor Questionnaire   Personality test that shows 16 traits  
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NEO test   Personality test that measures 5 big personality traits  
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Projective tests   Personality test category where subjects respond to vague stimuli to reveal needs / feelings / etc.  
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Thematic Apperception Test, Rorschach, word association, incomplete sentences, drawing people   Types of projective tests  
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