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Bell West / Personality

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show an individual's characteristic pattern of thinking, feeling, and acting.  
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show in phychoanalysis, a method of exploring the unconscious in which the person relaxes and says whatever comes to mind, no matter how trivial or embarrassing.  
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psychoanalysis   show
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show according to Freud, a reservoir of mostly unacceptable thoughts, wishes,feelings, and memories. According to contemporary psychologist, information processing of which we are unaware.  
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show contains a reservoir of unconscious psychic energy that, according to Freud, strives to satisfy basic sexual and aggressive drives. The id operates on the pleasure principle, demanding immediate gratification.  
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ego   show
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show the part of personality that represents internalized ideals and provides standards for judgment (the Conscience) and for future aspirations.  
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show the childhood stages of development (oral, anal, phallic, latency, genitak) during which the id's pleasure seeking energies focus on distinct erogenous zones.  
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show 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 children incorporate their parents' values into their developing superegos.  
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fixation   show
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show in psychoanalytic theory, the ego's protective methods of reducing anxiety by unconsciously distorting reality.  
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repression   show
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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 threating impluses by attributing them to others.  
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rationalization   show
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displacement   show
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show defense mechanism by which people refuse to believe or even to perceive painful realities.  
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collective unconscious   show
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show a personality test, such as the Rorschach or TAT, that provides ambiguous stimuli designed to trigger projection of one's inner dynamics.  
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Thematic Apperception Test   show
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show the most widely used projective test, a set of 10 inkblots, designed by Hermann Rorchach; seeks to identify people's inner feelings by analyzing their interpretations of the blots.  
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terror-management theory   show
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self-actualization   show
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show according to Rogers, an attitude of total acceptance toward another person.  
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self-concept   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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show the most widely researched and clinically used of all personality tests. Originally developed to identify emotional disorders, this test is now used for many other screening purposes.  
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empirically derived test   show
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show views behavior as influenced by the interaction between people's traits (including their thinking) and their social context.  
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reciprocal determinism   show
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personal control   show
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show the perception that chance or outside forces beyond your personal control determine your fate.  
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show the perception that you control your own fate.  
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show the hopelessness and passive resignation an animal or human learns when unable to avoid repeated aversive events.  
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positive psychology   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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show overestimating other's noticing and evaluating our appearance, performance, and blundrers.  
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self-esteem   show
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show a readiness to perceive oneself favorably.  
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