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Myers 7th Edition - Chapter 15 Vocabulary

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Personality   show
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Free association   show
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show Freud's theory of personality that attributes our thoughts and actions to unconscious motives and conflicts; the techniques used in treating psychological disorders by seeking to expose and interpret unconscious tensions.  
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show According to Freud, a reservoir of mostly unacceptable thoughts, wishes, feelings, and memories. According to contemporary psychologists, 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, according to Freud, mediates among the demands of the Id, Superego, and reality. The ego operates on the reality principle, satisfying the Id's desires that will realistically bring pleasure.  
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show The part of the brain that, according to Freud, represents internalized ideals and provides standards for judgment (the conscience) and for future aspirations.  
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show The childhood developement (oral, anal, phallic, latency, genital) during which, according to Freud, the Id's pleasure seeking energies focus on distinct erogenous zones.  
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Oedipus complex   show
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Indentification   show
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Fixation   show
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Defense machanisms   show
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show In psychoanalytic theory, the basic defense mechanism that banishes anxiety-arousing thoughts, feelings, and memories from consciousness.  
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Regression   show
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Reaction formation   show
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Projection   show
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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.  
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Displacement   show
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show A personality test, such as the Rorschach or TAT, that provides ambiguous stimuli designed to trigger projection of one's inner dynamics.  
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Thematic Apperception Test (TAT)   show
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Rorschach inkblot test   show
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Collective unconscious   show
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Self-actualization   show
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show According to Rogers, an attitude of total acceptance toward another person.  
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Self-concept   show
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Trait   show
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Personality inventory   show
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show The most widely researched and clinically used of all personality tests. Originally developed to identify emotional disorders (still considered its most appropriate use), this test is now used for many other screening purposes.  
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Empirically derived test   show
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show Views behavior as influenced by the interaction between persons (and their thinking) and their social context.  
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show The interacting influences between personality and environmental 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 determine one's fate.  
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Internal locus of control   show
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show The hopelessness and passive resignation an animal or human learns when unable to avoid repeated aversive events.  
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show Overestimating other's noticing and evaluating our appearance, performance, and blunders (as if we presume a spotlight shines on us).  
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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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show Giving priority to one's own goals over group goals, and defining one's identity in terms of personal attributes rather than group identifications.  
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Collectivism   show
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Positive psychology   show
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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.  
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