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Intro Psych
Chapter 11
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Personality | Individual's characteristic style of behaving, thinking and feeling |
| Projective Techniques | Standard series of ambiguous stimuli designed to elicit unique responses that reveal inner aspects of an individual's personality |
| Rorschach Inkblot Test | A projective technique in which respondents inner thought and feelings are believed to be revealed by analysis or their responses to a set of unstructured inkblots |
| Trait Approach | Uses trait terms to categorize differences among individuals, challenges, narrowing down almost infinite set of objectives and determining whether traits are biological or hereditary foundations |
| Trait | Relatively stable disposition to behave in a particular and consistent way |
| Big Five | Traits of a five factor model (OCEAN) |
| Dimension/Factor | highest level traits of personality |
| Psychodynamic approach | Regards personality as formed by needs, striving, and desires largely operating outside awareness-motives that can also produce emotional disorders; developed by Freud |
| Social Role Theory | Personality comes from culture and gender |
| Id | the part of the mid containing the drives present at birth, it is the source of our bodily need, wants, desires and impulses |
| Ego | The component of personality developed through contact with external world that enables us to deal with life's practical demands |
| Superego | Merit system that reflects the internalization of cultural rules, mainly learned as parents exercise authority |
| Anxiety | Conflict between Id, Ego and Superego |
| Defense Mechanism | unconscious coping mechanism that reduces anxiety generated by threats from unacceptable impulses |
| Rationalization | supplying a reasonable-sounding explanation for unacceptable feelings and behavior to conceal one's underlying motives and feelings |
| Reaction Formation | Unconsciously replacing threatening inner wishes and fantasies with exaggerated opposite |
| Projection | Attributing one's own threatening feelings, motives or impulses to another group or person |
| Depression | Removing painful experiences and impulses from the conscious mind |
| Regression | Ego deals with internal conflict and perceived threat by reverting to an immature behavior or earlier stage of development |
| Displacement | Shifting unacceptable wishes or drives to a neutral or less threatening alternative |
| Identification | Helps deal with feelings of threat and anxiety by enabling us to unconsciously take on the characteristics of another person who seems more powerful or able to cope |
| Sublimation | Channeling unacceptable sexual or aggressive drives into socially acceptable and cultural enhancing activities |
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