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Unit 10
Personality
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Personality | The unique psychological qualities of an individual that influence a variety of characteristic behavior patterns (both overt and covert) across different situations and over time. |
| Traits | Enduring personal qualities of attributes or attitudes that influence behavior across situations. |
| Five-factor model | A comprehensive description personality system that maps out the relationship among common traits, theoretical concepts, and personality scales; informally called the Big Five. |
| Psychodynamic personality theories | Theories of personality that share the assumption that personality is shaped by powerful inner forces motivate behavior. |
| Libido | The psychic energy that drives individuals toward sensual pleasures of all types, especially sexual ones. |
| Fixation | A state in which a person remains attached to objects more appropriate for an earlier stage of psychosexual development. |
| Id | The primitive, unconscious part of the personality that operates irrationally and acts on impulse to pursue pleasure. |
| Superego | The aspect of personality that represents the internalization of society's values, standards, and morals. |
| Ego | The aspect of personality involved in self-preservation activities and in directing instinctual drives and urges into appropriate channels. |
| Repression | The basic defense mechanism by which painful or guilt-producing thoughts, feelings, or memories are excluded from conscious awareness. |
| Ego defense mechanisms | Mental strategies (conscious or unconscious) used by the ego to defend itself against conflicts experienced in the normal course of life. |
| Collective unconscious | The part of an individual's unconscious that is inherited, evolutionary developed, and common to all members of the species. |
| Archetype | A universal, inherited, primitive, and symbolic representation of a particular experience or object. |
| Self-actualization | A concept in personality psychology referring to a person's constant striving to realize his or her potential to develop inherent talents and capabilities. |
| Unconditional positive regard | Complete love and acceptance of an individual by another person, such as a parent for a child, who no conditions attached. |
| Projective test | A method of assessment in which an individual is presented with a set of ambiguous stimuli and asked to interpret the meanings of each; the individual's responses are assumed to reveal inner feelings, motives, and conflicts. |
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