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AP Psychology Personality

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show an individual's characteristic pattern of thinking, feeling, and acting.  
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free association   show
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show Freud's theory of personality and therapeutic technique that attributes thoughts and actions to unconscious motives and conflicts. (pp. 597, 686)  
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show according to Freud, a reservoir of mostly unacceptable thoughts, wishes, feelings, and memories. According to contemporary psychologists, information processing of which we are unaware.  
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id   show
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ego   show
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superego   show
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psychosexual stages   show
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show [ED-uh-puss] according to Freud, a boy's sexual desires toward his mother and feelings of jealousy and hatred for the rival father.  
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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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fixation   show
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defense mechanisms   show
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show in psychoanalytic theory, the basic defense mechanism that banishes anxiety-arousing thoughts, feelings, and memories from consciousness. (pp. 381, 600)  
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show psychoanalytic defense mechanism in which an individual faced with anxiety retreats to a more infantile psychosexual stage, where some psychic energy remains fixated.  
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reaction formation   show
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show psychoanalytic defense mechanism by which people disguise their own threatening impulses by attributing them to others.  
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show defense mechanism that offers self-justifying explanations in place of the real, more threatening, unconscious reasons for one's actions.  
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show psychoanalytic defense mechanism that shifts sexual or aggressive impulses toward a more acceptable or less threatening object or person, as when redirecting anger toward a safer outlet.  
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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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projective test   show
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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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show the most widely used projective test, a set of 10 inkblots, designed by Hermann Rorschach; seeks to identify people's inner feelings by analyzing their interpretations of the blots.  
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unconditional positive regard   show
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show a characteristic pattern of behavior or a disposition to feel and act, as assessed by self-report inventories and peer reports.  
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personality inventory   show
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Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory   show
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show a test (such as the MMPI) developed by testing a pool of items and then selecting those that discriminate between groups.  
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reciprocal determinism   show
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show our sense of controlling our environment rather than feeling helpless.  
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external locus of control   show
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internal locus of control   show
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learned helplessness   show
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show 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   show
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