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Ch. 13 Personality
Psych. FINAL
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| According to Jung, the female part of the male personality | Anima |
| According to Jung, the male part of the female personality | Animus |
| Ancient or archaic images that result from common ancestral experiences; often expressed in dreams, hallucinations, and myths | Archetypes |
| The essence of personality: the Big Five personality dimensions, plus talents, aptitudes, and cognitive abilities | Basic Tendencies |
| The point at which a person moves from not behaving to behaving | Behavioral thresholds |
| A categorization scheme for personality that includes 5 dimensions: Openness to experience, Conscientiousness, Extraversion, Agreeableness, and Neuroticism (OCEAN) | Big Five or Five-Factor Model |
| According to Jung, the shared experiences of our ancestors that have been passed down from generation to generation | Collective unconscious |
| Unconscious strategies used by the mind to protect itself from harmful, threatening, and anxiety-provoking thoughts, feelings, or impulses; they deny or distort reality in some way | Defense mechanisms |
| Freud's term for the sense of self; the part of the mind that operates on the "reality principle" | Ego |
| Freud's term for the seat of impulse and desire; the pleasure-seeking part of our personality. | Id |
| An unhealthy need to dominate or upstage others as a way of compensating for feelings or deficiency | Inferiority complex |
| Measure of how much agreement there is in ratings when using two or more raters or coders to rate personality or other behaviors | Inter-rater reliability |
| According to Freud, a developmental phase, lasting from age 6 until puberty, in which the sense of sexuality is dormant | Latency stage |
| According to Jung, all of our repressed and hidden thoughts, feelings, and motives | Personal unconscious |
| The unique and relatively enduring set of behaviors, feelings, thoughts, and motives that characterize an individual | Personality |
| A defense mechanism in which people deny and repress particular ideas, feelings, or impulses but project them onto others | Projection |
| Method of measuring personality traits by presenting an ambiguous stimulus or situation to participants and asking them to give their interpretation of or tell a story about what they see | Projective tests |
| Freud's stages of personality development; in different stages, a different region of the body is most erogenous | Psychosexual stage theory |
| A technique in behavioral genetics that looks for the location on genes that might be associated with particular behaviors | Quantitative trail loci (QTL) approach |
| Self-report instruments that consist of individual statements, or items; respondents indicate the extent to which they agree or disagree with each statement as it applies to their personality | Questionnaires |
| A defense mechanism that turns an unpleasant idea, feeling, or impulse into the opposite | Reaction formation |
| Defense mechanism for keeping unpleasant thoughts, feelings, or impulses out of consciousness | Repression |
| A projective test involving a serious of ambiguous inkblots presented one at a time; the participant is asked to say what he or she sees in each one | Rorschach Inkblot Test |
| People's inherent drive to realize their full potention | Self-actualization |
| According to Alder, the major drive behind all behavior, whereby humans naturally strive to overcome their physical and psychological deficiencies | Striving for superiority |
| A defense mechanism in which a socially unacceptable impulse is expressed in a socially acceptable and even desirable way | Sublimation |
| Freud's term for the part of the mind that monitors behavior and evaluates it in terms of right and wrong; the conscience | Superego |
| A projective test that consists of a series of hand-drawn cards depicting simple scenes that are ambiguous; the participant makes up a story about what he or she thinks is going on in the scene | Thematic Apperception Test (TAT) |
| A disposition to behave consistently in a particular way | Trait |
| In Roger's approach to psychotherepy, the ability to respect and appreciate another person regardless of his or her behavior | Unconditional positive regard |
| The level of consciousness containing all drives, urges, and instincts that are outside awareness but nonetheness motivate most behavior | Unconscious |
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