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CH 11 personality notes

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Personality:   show
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show Personality theories contending that behavior results from psychological factors that interact within the individual, often outside conscious awareness.  
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Psychodynamics:   show
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show Much of mental life is unconscious result, people may behave in ways that they don’t understand  
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show Mental processes such as emotions, motivations, & thoughts operate in parallel, which may lead to conflicting feelings.  
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show Early experiences strongly affect personality development.  
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step 4/5 of psychodynamics   show
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step 5/5 of psychodynamics:   show
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show very influential psychodynamic theorist.  
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show all ideas, thoughts, & feelings of which we are not & normally can’t be aware of.  
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show Freud’s ideas from the basis of this. Which is his theory of personality &to the form of therapy that he invented.  
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show •Some instincts are aggressive/destructive •Hunger, thirst, & self-preservation are necessary to the survival of the individual • Desire for pleasure, Freud believed is the most critical factor in the development of personality  
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ID:   show
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show . It’s collection of unconscious desires that continually seek expression. Only structure present at birth.  
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show person forms a mental image of an object/situation that partly satisfies the instinct & relieves the uncomfortable feeling.  
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show Tries to obtain immediate pleasure/&to avoid pain. As soon as an instinct arises, the ID tries to obtain it.  
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Ego:   show
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more on the EGO:   show
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show The way in which the ego seeks to satisfy instinctual demands safely & effectively in the real world. Ex: If I’m thirsty my ego will attempt to get something to quench my thirst effectively & safely.  
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show “the angel”, moral watch dog, the social & parental standards the individual has internalized; the conscience & the ego ideal. It’s not present at birth, not till adulthood.  
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more on the SuperEgo:   show
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EgoIdeal:   show
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show Self-deceptive techniques for reducing anxiety & guilt including denial, repression, protection, identification, regression, intellectualization, reaction, formation, displacement, & sublimation.  
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Defensive Coping:   show
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show Refusal to acknowledge a painful or threatening reality, ex: parents won’t face the fact that their child is taking drugs, it can perpetuate the problem.  
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show can cause conflicts (psychodynamic theory). Dreams, day dreams, & fantasies (mental representations)  
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show conscious, unconscious, pre conscious (muscle memory)  
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Repression:   show
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Projection:   show
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show taking on characteristics of someone else to avoid feeling incompetent. (DM)For ex: father lives vicariously through his son, like when son get a doctorate, parents are very proud.  
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Stockholm Syndrome part of (Identifcation)   show
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Regression:   show
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Example of Regression:   show
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show Subtle form of denial. Thinking abstractly about stressful problems as a way of detaching oneself from them. Ex: instead of getting emotional about their dying father, mcnitts’ brother got stats on how sharks don’t get cancer. Defensive mechanism  
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show : behavioral form of denial, constantly praising another when jealous of exaggerated ideas & emotions that are the opposite of one’s repressed beliefs or feelings. It’s a way of unconsciously convincing oneself that one’s motives are pure. DM  
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show : Shifting repressed motives & emotions from an original object to a substitute object. Ex: a woman who has always wanted to be a mother and knows she can’t have kids, will have a very strong attachment to a niece or pet.  
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show , or kicking the dog after a hard day at work…in the end you know the dog will be there the next day.  
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Sublimation:   show
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show believed it was necessary, & desirable to sublimate sexual drives into more acceptable forms= energy given to other endeavors.  
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show : According to Freud; the energy generated by the sexual instinct. First 18 months of life the dominant source of pleasure is the mouth, at 18 months it goes to the anus, age 3 shifts to the genitals.  
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Fixation:   show
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show oral, anal, & phallic stage  
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Oral stage:   show
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show •When teeth come in, pleasure = chewing & biting. •Too much oral gratification= kids grew up gullible, optimistic, dependent adults, •those who receive too little may turn in to pessimistic, sarcastic, argumentative, & hostile people later in life.  
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show 1.5 -3.5 years, erotic feelings center on the anus/elimination. • Parents who teach potty training to strictly kids throw temper tantrums & may live in self destruction when an adult. • Parents who teach lazily, child becomes stingy and every orderly.  
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show : 3-6, feelings center on the genitals, child becomes attached to parent of opp sex, While becoming jealous of same sex parent.  
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Oedipus Complex:   show
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Electra Complex:   show
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show both occur in the Phallic Stage  
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Fixation at Phallic Stage:   show
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show starts at age 5/6 lasts until age 12 or 13. Boys play w/boys, girls play w/girls. Neither sex takes much interest in the other.  
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show Final stage of normal adult sexual dev., which is usually marked by mature sexuality. Happens at puberty. Sexual impulses are reawakened (conscious)  
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Carl Jung:   show
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show •He thought the libido or psychic energy represents all life forces not just the sexual ones. • Freud & Jung emphasized the role of the unconscious in determining human behavior.  
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even more on Carl Jung:   show
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Alfred Adler:   show
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More on Alfred Adler:   show
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even more on Alfred Adler:   show
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show •He is the father of humanistic psychology •Compensation-persons effort to overcome imagined or real personal weaknesses  
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show Adler possess innate positive motives & strives toward social perfection(superiority). He has control over personal behavior, Freud has little control. Freud is motivated by sex & aggression (negative, unconscious)  
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show Karen Horney & Erick Erickson focused more on the influence of social interaction on personality. They put greater emphasis on the ego & its attempts to gain mastery over the world.  
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show psychodynamic personality theorist, she thought that environmental & social facts are the most important influences in shaping personality  
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show •& among these, the most pivotal are the human relationships we experience as children. • ANXIETY is what she’s is known for, • Basic anxiety is pivotal in shaping personality •Environment & social factors must influence personality  
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show •We feel happiness in a world we perceive as hostile; insecure •We desire affection & security •Protection from basic anxiety * Affection & submissiveness; move toward others •Aggressiveness; moving against others ; strive for power and prestige  
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Karen continued once more   show
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show Karen= culture & environment drive personality, Freud; biology Security vs. Sex, Karen also believed people have control over their env. & their behavior.  
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Erick Erickson:   show
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show •He emphasized quality of parent-child relationship • Must discipline in a way that leaves child feeling loved • Must make child feel competent & valuable  
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show trust vs. mistrust, autonomy vs. shame, initiative vs. Guilt, industry vs. inferiority, ID vs Role confusion, intimacy vs isolation, generativity vs. stagnation, Ego integrity vs. despair  
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Trust Vs. Mistrust(Ericksons )stage 1:   show
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Autonomy vs. Shame(Erickson's) stage 2:   show
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Initiative vs. Guilt (Erickson's) stage 3:   show
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Industry vs. Inferiority(Erickson's) stage 4:   show
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Identity vs. Role Confusion(Erickson's) stage5:   show
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Intimacy vs. Isolation(Erickson's) stage 6:   show
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Generativity vs. Stagnation( Erickson's )stage 7:   show
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show 65 +, older people realize they led a successful life causing a feeling of integrity. Other older adults look back and see regret and disappointment causing a feeling of despair.  
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Differences between Erickson & Freud:   show
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show A psychoanalysis psychiatrist  
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Henry Stack Sullivan believed in:   show
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show •Objective Relations Theory: people who develop abstract relations generally grow to be emotionally stable( the mom for ex) • Maladaptive behavior later in life due to unsuccessful attachment to mother, have an abnormal self image  
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Personal Unconscious:   show
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Collective Unconscious:   show
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show captures the most dimensions of human personality. With acronym OCEAN  
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show fantasy, aesthetics, actions, ideas, values  
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Conscientiousness: the Big Five:   show
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Extroversion: The Big Five:   show
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Agreeableness: the Big Five:   show
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show anxiety, hostility, depression, self-consciousness, impulsiveness, vulnerability  
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show : thought forms common to all human beings, stored in the CU. They appear as typical typical mental images, Carl Jung.  
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show By Jung, our “public self” the “mask” we put onto represent ourselves to others.  
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Anima:   show
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show person who usually focuses on social life, the external world instead of on his/her internal experience. Jung  
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show Jung, person who focuses on his/her own thoughts & feelings.  
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Rational and Irrational Individuals:   show
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show *is rational/logical & decides on basis of facts. *sensitive to his/her surroundings, acts tactfully, & has a balanced sense of values.  
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show they rely primarily on surface perceptions & rarely uses imagination or deeper understanding.  
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show sees beyond obvious solutions & facts to consider future possibilities  
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show : the fixation on feelings of personal inferiority that results in emotional & social paralysis.  
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Style of life:   show
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show Any personality theory that asserts the fundamental goodness of people & their striving toward higher levels of functioning.  
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show A humanistic theorist that men & women develop personalities in the service of positive goals.  
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Actualizing Tendency:   show
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Self-Actualizing Tendency:   show
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show (Rogers), Self directed, person whose self concept closely resembles his/her inborn capacities/potential.  
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Unconditional Positive Regard:   show
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Conditional Positive Regard:   show
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show Dimensions or characteristics on or in which people differ in distinctive ways.  
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Factor Analysis:   show
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Cognitive-Social Learning Theories:   show
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show Albert Bandura, what a person anticipates in a situation or as a result of behaving in certain ways.  
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show (Bandura), standards that people develop to rate the adequacy of their own behavior in a variety of situations.  
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show (Bandura), the expectancy that one’s’ efforts will be successful  
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Locus of Control:   show
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show People are convinced they can control their one fate.  
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External Locus of Control;   show
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show Personality tests that are administered & scored in a standard way.  
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show An objective personality test created by Cattell, that provides scores on the 16 traits he identified  
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Neo-PI-R:   show
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Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory(MMPI-2):   show
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More on the MMPI-2 inventory:   show
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show Personality tests, such as Rorschach test, consisting of ambiguous or unstructured material. Test can be very flexible, they can be treated as games/puzzles. Person taking the test doesn’t know purpose of test, so responses are less likely to be faked.  
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Rorschach Test:   show
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show ): A projective test, composed of ambiguous pics about which a person is asked to write a complete story. Developed by Hermann H.A. Murray. Consists of 20 cards picturing one or more human figures in deliberate ambiguous situations.  
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