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Chapter 10~ Personality
Term | Definition |
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Collective Unconscious | Carl Jung's concept of a shared, inherited reservoir of memory traces from our species' history |
Collectivism | giving priority to goals of one's group and defining one's identity accordingly |
Displacement | psychoanalytic defense mechanism that shifts sexual or aggressive impulses towards a more acceptable or less threatening object or person, as when redirecting anger toward a safer outlet |
Empirically Derived Test | a test developed by testing a pool of items and then selecting those that discriminate between groups |
Oedipus Complex | according to Freud, a boy's sexual desires towards his mother and feelings of jealousy and hatred for the rival father |
Rationalization | psychoanalytic defense mechanism that offers self-justifying explanations in place of the real, more threatening unconscious reasons for one's actions |
Reaction Formation | psychoanalytic defense mechanism by which the ego unconsciously swtiches unacceptable impulses into their opposites |
Reciprocal Determinism | the interacting influences of behavior, internal cognition, and environment |