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Personality!
AP Psych !
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Personality | characteristics that make up an individual's concept of life |
| Free Association | the process in which all thoughts are encouraged to be shared without typical societal expectations |
| Psychoanalysis | use of the unconscious mind in decision making, pioneered by Freud |
| Id | this is the most primitive urge in psychoanalytic theory |
| Ego | a balance between all urges and all morals |
| Superego | this is all societal and moral standards for an individuals |
| Psychosexual Stages | Freud's idea for step-by-step sexual growth |
| Oral, Anal, Phallic, Latency, and Genital | The Psychosexual stages in order |
| Oedipus Complex | this is the idea that all boys have erotic feelings towards their mothers |
| Rorschach Inkblot Test | this a way of seeing one’s unconscious mind and personality in terms of emotion, creativity, etc. it is not widely regarded today |
| Thematic Apperception Test | developed by Henry Alexander Murray to show one’s attitudes, feelings, and conflicts by looking at black-and-white photos |
| Projective Tests | this includes Rorschach and TaT tests to show unconscious feelings |
| Collective Unconscious | this is a part of the unconscious that is believed to be the culmination of all primitive human experiences |
| Displacement | this is the transfer of feelings or behavior from one object to another, in psychoanalytic, it is considered a defense mechanism |
| Rationalization | this is an aspect of ego that tries to justify unacceptable behavior to reduce feelings of guilt |
| Projection | This is the process of attributing one’s characteristics to another person or group |
| Reaction Formation | this is a defense mechanism that denies unaccepted or threatening impulses and replaces them with the opposite feeling |
| Regression | this is returning to a lower state of cognitive, emotional, or behavioral functioning |
| Repression | this is a defense mechanism that excludes painful experiences from consciousness |
| Fixation (Freud’s Theory) | this is an attachment to an object or mode of gratification, this makes it harder to negotiate later psychosexual stages |
| Self Concept | this is one’s evaluation of one’s self including characteristics and roles, this changes overtime |
| Self Serving Bias | this is the process of interpreting events in a way that gives one’s self success and denies responsibility for failure |
| Spotlight Effect | this is the tendency for being able to overestimate how much other people notice about us |
| Internal Locus of Control | behaves in response to internal states and their own agency |
| External Locus of Control | behaves in response to external circumstances and things out of their control |
| Reciprocal Determinism | the concept that balances internal and external stimulus in individuals decision making |
| Empirically Derived Test | this means to analyze data in order to to validate a concept or theory |
| MMPI | this is a way of assessing personality to look for common clinical problems via t/f questions |
| Individualism | personal outlook that emphasises an individual and their rights |
| Collectivism | this is viewing oneself in larger regards including family or social groups |
| Terror Management Theory | this is a theory that proposes that all functions of human behavior are based in the inevitability of death |
| Identification | this is a defense mechanism in which the individual aligns themselves with the beliefs of another group |
| Neo-Freudian | this is a theory that has aspects of the original psychoanalytic theories, but with modifications |
| Self-Efficacy | an individual's perception to perform in a certain settings to gain desired results |
| Self-Esteem | this is the degree of qualities contained in one’s self that are positive |
| Temperament | the basic foundations of personality that are shown early in life |
| Pleasure Principle | this is the idea that people are governed by the desire of gratification |
| Reality Principle | this is the idea that people are governed by the demands of the outside world |
| Sublimation | this is the idea that unacceptable urges are driven to more socially acceptable forms of expression |
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