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Psychology
Flash Cards
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Personality | refers to a distinctive pattern of behavior, mannerisms, thoughts motives and emotions that characterizes an individual over time and across different situations. |
| trait | A characteristic of an individual, describing a habitual way of behaving thinking or feeling. |
| Psychoanalysis | a theory of personality and a method of psychotherapy, it emphasizes unconscious motives and conflicts. |
| Sigmund Freud | Developed psychoanalysis |
| psychodynamic theories | theories that explain behavior and personality in terms of unconscious energy dynamics within the individual. |
| id | In psychoanalysis that parts of personality containing inherited psychic energy. |
| ego | In psychoanalysis, the part of personality that represents reason, good sense, and social standards. |
| superego | In psychoanalysis, the part of personality that represents conscience, morality and social standards. |
| libido | In psychoanalysis the psychic energy that fuels the life or sexual instincts of the id. |
| Defense mechanisms | Method used by the ego to prevent unconscious anxiety or threatening thoughts form entering consciousness. |
| Repression, Projection, displacement, regression, denial | Defense mechanisms |
| Repression | threatening idea or memory, emotions are blocked |
| Projection | person own unacceptable or threatening feelings are repressed and then attributed to someone else. |
| Displacement | when people direct their emotions toward things or animals or other people that are not the real object of their feelings. |
| Regression | When a person reverts to a previous phase of psychological development. |
| Denial | when people refuse to admit that something unpleasant is happening |
| oral, anal phallic, latency, Oedipal and genital | psychosexual stages |
| Oedipus complex | a conflict occurring in the phallic stage, which a child desires the parent of the other sex |
| collective unconscious | Universal memories and experiences of humankind, represented in the symbols, stories, and dreams. |
| archetypes | symbolic images that appear in myths, art, stories, and dreams |
| Jungian Theory | Carl Jung |
| object relations school | a psychodynamic approach that emphasizes the importance of the infant's first two years of life and the baby formative relationships, especially with the mother. |
| Myers briggs | Popular Personality tests |
| objective test | standardized questionnaires requiring written responses |
| factor analysis | A statistical method for analyzing the intercorrelation among various measures or test scores |
| Extroversion versus introversion | big five |
| Neuroticism versus emotional stability | big five |
| Agreeableness versus antagonism | big five |
| Conscientiousness versus impulsiveness | big five |
| Openness to experience versus resistance to new experience | big five |
| temperaments | physiological dispositions to respond to the environment in certain ways |
| heritability | a statistical estimate of the proportion of the total variance in some trait that is attributable to genetic differences among individuals within a group. |
| Psychodynamic | major influences on personality |
| genetic | major influences on personality |
| Environmental | major influences on personality |
| Cultural | major influences on personality |
| Humanist | major influences on personality |
| Narrative | major influences on personality |
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