Myers 7th Edition - Chapter 15 Vocabulary
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| Personality | show 🗑
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| show | In psychoanalysis, a method of exploring the unconscious in which the person relaxes and says whatever comes to mind, no matter how trivial or embarrassing.
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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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| 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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| Superego | show 🗑
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| Psychosexual stages | show 🗑
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| Oedipus complex | show 🗑
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| show | The process by which, according to Freud, children incorporate their parent's values into their developing superegos.
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| Fixation | show 🗑
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| show | In psychoanalytic theory, the ego's protective methods of reducing anxiety by unconsciously distorting reality.
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| Repression | show 🗑
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| show | Defense mechanism in which an individual faced with anxiety retreats to a more infantile psychosexual stage, where some psychic energies remains fixated.
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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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| show | Psychoanalytic 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.
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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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| Collective unconscious | show 🗑
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| show | According to Maslow, the ultamite psychological need that arises after basic physical and psychological needs are met and self-esteem is achieved; the motivation to fulfill one's potential.
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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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| show | A questionnaire (often with true-false or agree-disagree items) on which people respond to items designed to gauge a wide range of feelings and behaviors; used to assess selected personality traits.
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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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| show | A test (such as the MMPI) developed by testing a pool of items then selecting those that discriminate between groups.
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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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| Reciprocal determination | show 🗑
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| show | Our sense of controlling our environment rather than feeling helpless.
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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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| show | The perception that one controls one's own fate.
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| Self-esteem | show 🗑
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| show | A readiness to perceive oneself favorably.
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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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| show | Giving priority to the goals of one's group (often one's extended family or work group) and defining one's identity accordingly.
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| show | The scientific study of optimal human functioning; aims to discover and promote strengths and virtues that enable individuals and communities to thrive.
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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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