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Gen Psych 4,5
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Ego Defenses | Mental strategies, rooted in the ego, that we use to manage anxiety when we feel threatened (some examples include repression, denial, sublimation, and reaction formation). |
| Neuropsychoanalysis | An integrative, interdisciplinary domain of inquiry seeking to integrate psychoanalytic and neuropsychological ideas and findings to enhance both areas of inquiry |
| Object Relations Theory | A modern offshoot of the psychodynamic perspective, this theory contends that personality can be understood as reflecting mental images of significant figures (especially parents) that we form early in life in response to interactions taking place within |
| Primacy of the Unconscious | The hypothesis- supported by contemporary empirical research- that the vast majority of mental activity takes place outside conscious awareness |
| Psychic Causality | The assumption that nothing in mental life happens by chance- that there is no such thing as a "random" thought or feeling |
| Psychosexual Stage Model | Probably the most controversial aspect of psychodynamic theory, the psychosexual stage model says early in life we progress through a sequence of developmental stages (oral, anal, Oedipal, latency, and genital), each with its own unique mode of sexual |
| Structural Model | Developed to complement and extend the topographic model, the structural model of the mind posits the existence of three interacting mental structures called the id, ego, and superego |
| Topographic Model | Freud's first model of the mind, which contended that the mind could be divided into the three regions: conscious, preconscious, unconscious. (topographic is the study of maps) |
| Agreeableness | A personality trait that reflects a person's tendency to be compassionate, cooporative, warm, and caring to others. People low in agreeableness tend to be rude, hostile, and to pursue their own interests over those of others |
| Conscientiousness | A personality trait that reflects a person's tendecy to be careful, organized, hardworking, and to follow rules |
| Continuous Distributions | Characteristics can go from low to high, with all different intermediate values possible. One does not simply have the trait or not have it, but can possess varying amounts of it. |
| Extraversion | A personality trait that reflects a person's tendency to be sociable, dominance, risk-taking and so-forth. |
| Facets | Broad personality traits can be broken down into narrower facets or aspects of the trait, For example, extraversion has several facets, such as sociability, dominance, risk-taking and so forth. |
| Factor Analysis | A statistical technique for grouping similar things together according to how highly they are associated |
| Five-Factor Model | The Big Five- is accepted model of personality traits. Advocates of the model believe that much of the variability in people's thoughts, feelings, and behaviors can be summarized with five broad traits. These 5 traits are O.C.E.A.N. |
| HEXACO Model | The HEXACO model is an alternative to the Five-Factor-Model. The HEXACO Model includes 6 traits, 5 of which are variants of the traits included in the Big 5 (emotionality, extraversion, agreeableness, conscientiousness, openness) the 6th Honesty-humility |
| Independent | Two characteristics or traits are separate from one another-- a person can be high on one and low on the other, or vice-versa. Some correlated traits are relatively independent in that they can have both |
| Lexical Hypothesis | the idea that the most important differences between people will be in the language that we use to describe people. If we want to know which personality traits are most important, we can look to the languages that people use to describe themselves/others |
| Neuroticism | A personality trait that reflects the tendency to be interpersonally sensitive and the tendency to experience negative emotions like anxiety, fear, sadness and anger |
| Openness to Experience | A personality trait that reflects a person's tendency to seek out and to appreciate new things, including thoughts, feelings, values, and experiences |
| Personality | Enduring predispositions that characterize a person, such as styles of thought, feelings and behavior |
| Personality Traits | Enduring dispositions in behavior that show differences across individuals, and which tend to characterize the person across varying types of situations |
| Person-situation Debate | A historical debate about the relative power of personality traits as compared to situational influences on behavior. The situationist critique suggested that people overestimate the extent to which personality traits are consistent in situations. |
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