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*BLHS Personality

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Personality
Definition
personality   show
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show in psycoanalysis, a method of exploring the unconscious in which the person relaxes and says whatever comes to mind, no matter how trivial or emarrassing. Ex: painful memories of childhood  
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show Freud's theory of personality that attributes thoughts and actions to unconscious motives and conflicts; the techniques used in treating psychological disorders by seeking to expose and interpret unconscious tensions. Ex: therapy  
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unconscious   show
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show contains a reservoir of unconscious psychic energy that strives to satisfy basic sexual and aggressive drives. Ex: pleasure (non-realistic)  
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show the largely conscious "executive" part of personality that mediates among the demands of the id, superego, and reality Ex: realistically satisfying id's (unrealistic pleasure) desires  
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show the part of personality that represents internalized ideals and provides standards for judgement and for future aspirations Ex:the ideal (a person who is virtuous but ironically guilt-ridden)  
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psychosexual stages   show
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Oedipus complex   show
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identification   show
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show a lingering focus of pleasure-seeking energies at an earlier psychosexual stage, in which conflicts were unresolved Ex: When a child is weaned too early he/she will experience fixation during oral stage  
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show the ego's protective methods of reducing anxiety by unconsciously distorting reality EX: Repression, Regression, Reaction Formation, Projection, Rationalization, Displacement  
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repression   show
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show a defense mechanism inwhich an indiviual faced with anxiety retreats to a more infantile psychosexual stage, where some psychic energy remains fixated EX: When a child goes to the first day of school may suck his/her thumb  
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show defense mechanism by which the ego unconsciously switches unacceptable impulses into their opposites. EX: "I hate him" becomes "I love him"  
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show defense mechanism by which people disguise their own threatening inpulses by attributing them to others EX: "He doesn't trust me" goes to "I don't trust myself" or "I don't trust him"  
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rationalization   show
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show defense mechanism that shifts sexual or aggressive impulses toward a more acceptable or less threatening object or person, as when redirecting anger toward a safer outlet EX: Children who fear expressing anger toward parent instead takes it out on a pet  
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collective unconscious   show
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show a personality test that provides ambiguous stimuli designed to trigger projection of one's inner dynamics EX: Roshach, TAT tests  
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show the most widely used projective test, a set of 10 inkblots, designed by Hermann roscharch; seeks to indentify people's inner feelings by analyzing their interpretations of the blots  
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terror-management theory   show
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self-actualization   show
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unconditional positive regard   show
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show all our thoughts and feelings about ourselves EX: "Who am I?"  
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trait   show
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show a questionnaire (true-false or agree-disagree) on which people respond to items designed to gauge a wide range of feelings and behaviors  
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show the most widely researched and clinically used of a lll personality tests. Developed to identify emotional disorders.  
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empirically derived test   show
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social-cognitive perspective   show
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reciprocal determinism   show
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personal control   show
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show the perception that chance or outside forces beyond one's personal control detirmine one's fate.  
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internal locus of control   show
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learned helplessness   show
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spotlight effect   show
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show one's feelings of high or low self-worth  
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self-serving bias   show
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