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Module 61-64AP Psych
Module 61-64AP Psych Unit 7
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Humanistic theories | theories that view personality with a focus on the potential for healthy personal growth |
| Hierarchy of Needs | Maslow's pyramid of human needs |
| Self-actualization | one of the ultimate psychological needs that arises after basic physical and psychological needs are met |
| Self-transcendence | the striving for identity meaning and purpose beyond the self |
| Person-centered perceptive | people are basically good and are endowed with self-actualization tendencies |
| conditional positive regard | a caring, accepting, non-judgemental attitude which carl rogers believed would help people develop self-awareness and self-acceptance |
| Self-concept | all our thoughts and feelings about ourselves in answer to the question, “Who am I?” |
| Traits | a characteristic pattern of behavior or a disposition to feel and act in certain ways as assessed by self-report inventories and peer reports |
| Factor analysis | a statistical procedure that identifies clusters of test items that tap basic components of a trait |
| Personality inventory | a questionnaire on which people respond to items designed to gauge a wide range of feelings and behaviors |
| MMPI | the most widely researched and clinically used of all personality tests |
| Empirically derived test | a test created by selecting from a pool of items those that discriminate between groups |
| Big 5 Personality factors | Conscientiousness, agreeableness, emotional stability, openness, and extraversion |
| Person-situation controversy | we look for genuine personality traits that persist over time and across situations |
| Social-cognitive perspective | views behavior as influenced by the interaction between people's traits and their social context |
| Behavioral approach | focuses on the effects of learning on our personality development |
| Reciprocal determinism | the interaction influences of behavior internal cognition and environment |
| Self | in contemporary psychology assumed to be the center of personality the organizer of our thoughts feeling s and actions |
| Spotlight effect | overstimulating others noticing and evaluating our appearance performance and blunders |
| Self-esteem | one's feelings of high or low self-worth |
| Self-efficacy | one's sense of competence and effectiveness |
| Self-serving bias | a readiness to perceive oneself favorably |
| Narcissism | excessive self-love and self-adaptation |
| Individualism | giving priority to one’s own goals over group goals and defining one’s identity in terms of personal attributes rather than groups identifications |
| Collectivism | giving priority to the goals of ones group ones extended family or work and defining |
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