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*BLHS Personality

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Personality
Definition
show an individual's characteristic pattern of thinking, feeling, and acting. Ex: distinctiveness and consistancy  
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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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psychoanalysis   show
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show a reservoir of mostly unaccceptable thoughts, wishes, feelings, and memories. Ex: Information processing of which we are unaware.  
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id   show
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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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show a boy's sexual desires towards his mother and feelings of jealousy and hatred for the rival father EX: Greek legend Oedipus killed his father and married his mother  
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identification   show
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fixation   show
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defense mechanism   show
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show the basic defense mechanism that banishes anxiety-arousing thoughts, feelings, and memories from consciousness EX: Not remembering the lust for parent of the opposite sex  
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regression   show
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reaction formation   show
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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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show defense mechanism that offers self-justifying explanations in place of the real, more threatening, unconscious reasons for one's actions EX: heavy drinkers say they drink with their friends "to be sociable"  
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displacement   show
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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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show proposes that faith in one's worldview and the pursuit of self-esteem provide protection against a deeply rooted fear of death EX: Writing an essay about dying and the emotions associated with it.  
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show According to Maslow, the ultimate psychological need that arises after basic pysical and psychological needs are met and self-esteem is achieved; the motivation to fulfill one's potential. EX: Hierarchy of Needs  
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show according to Rogers, an attitude of total acceptance toward another person. EX: In a good marriage, a close family, we are free to be spontaneous without fearing the loss of others' esteem.  
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show all our thoughts and feelings about ourselves EX: "Who am I?"  
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show a characteristic pattern of behavior or a dispostion to feel and act, as assessed by self-report inventories and peer reports EX: unemotional  
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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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Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI)   show
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show a test developed by testing a pool of items and then selecting those that discriminate between groups  
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show views behavior as influenced by the interaction between persons and their social context  
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show the interacting influences between personality and enviromental factors  
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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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show the perception that one controls one's own fate  
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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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show a readiness to percieve oneself favorably  
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