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psych unit 10 vocab

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show in personality theory, this perspective focuses on the effects of learning on our personality development  
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show Carl Jung's concept of a shared, inherited reservoir of memory traces from our species history  
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show giving priority to the goals of one's group and defining one's identity accordingly  
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defense mechanism   show
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ego   show
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show a test developed by testing a pool of items and then selecting those that discriminate between groups  
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false consensus effect   show
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show according to Freud, a lingering focus of pleasure-seeing energies at an earlier psychosexual stage, in which conflicts were unresolved  
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free association   show
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humanistic theories   show
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show a reservoir of unconscious psychic energy that, according to Freud, strives to satisfy  
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show the process by which, according to Freud, children incorporate their parents' values into their developing superegos  
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individualism   show
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Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI)   show
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show excessive self-love and self-absorption  
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show according to Freud, a boy's sexual desires toward his mother and feelings of hatred and jealously and hatred for the rival father  
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show modern-day approaches that view personality with a focus on the unconscious and the importance of childhood experiences  
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show the childhood stages of development (oral, anal, phallic, latency, genital) during which, according to Freud, the id's pleasure-seeking energies focus on distinct erogenous zones  
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reciprocal determinism   show
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show in psychoanalytic theory, the basic defense mechanism that banishes from consciousness anxiety-arousing thoughts, feelings, and memories  
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rorschach inkblot test   show
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show in contemporary psychology, assumed to be the center of personality, the organizer of our thoughts, feelings, and actions  
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self-actualization   show
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show all our thoughts and feelings about ourselves, in answer to the question, "Who am I?"  
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self-esteem   show
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self-serving bias   show
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social-cognitive perspective   show
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show overestimating others' noticing and evaluating our appearance, performance, and blunders  
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show the part of personality that, according to Freud, represents internalized ideals and provides standards for judgment and for future aspirations  
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show a theory of death- related anxiety; explores people's emotional and behavioral responses to reminders of their impending death  
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show a projective test in which people express their inner feelings and interests through the stories they make up about ambiguous scenes  
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trait   show
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unconditional positive regard   show
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show according to Freud, a reservoir of mostly unacceptable thoughts, wishes, feelings, and memories  
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