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12 Personality

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show A person’s unique long-term pattern of thinking, emotion, and behaviour; the consistency of who you are, have been, and will become  
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• Personality traits   show
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• Character   show
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show System of concepts, assumptions, ideas, and principles proposed to explain personality  
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show Attempt to learn what traits make up personality and how they relate to actual behaviour  
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• Psychodynamic theories   show
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• Behaviouristic and Social Learning theories   show
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show Focus on private, subjective experience and personal growth  
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• Common traits   show
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show Define a person’s unique personal qualities  
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• Cardinal traits   show
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show Core qualities of a personality. These are the major characteristics you might use to describe another person. Eg. intelligent, honest, shy, anxious etc.  
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• Secondary traits   show
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• Surface traits   show
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• Source traits   show
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show Graph of the scores on several personality traits  
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person-situation debate   show
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show argued that the situation more strongly influences the person compared to their personality traits, ie., someone who is extremely talkative at one specific party may sometimes be resistant to speak up during class or at a different party.  
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1. Openness to experience   show
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show degree of organisation, preference for goal  
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show preference for social interaction, activity for activity's sake  
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show orientation toward compassion and caring about others, and away from antagonism  
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show tendency toward negative emotionality, instability, inability to cope  
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• Conscious   show
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show Material that can easily be brought into awareness  
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• Unconscious   show
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Freud’s Psychoanalytic Theory   show
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Freud’s Psychoanalytic Theory   show
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Freud’s Psychoanalytic Theory   show
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• Neurotic anxiety   show
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• Moral anxiety   show
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show Unresolved conflict or emotional hang-up caused by overindulgence or frustration  
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show Gullible, passive, and need lots of attention. Fixations create oral-aggressive adults who like to argue and exploit others  
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show Stubborn, stingy, orderly, and compulsively clean  
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show Disorderly, messy, destructive, or cruel  
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show Boy attracted to mother  
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show Girl attracted to father  
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• Genital stage   show
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• Psychological situation   show
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show Anticipation that making a response will lead to a particular reinforcement  
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• Self-efficacy (by Bandura)   show
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show Praise, attention, approval, and/or affection from others  
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show Feeling emotionally connected to admired adults  
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show Desire to act like an admired person  
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Humanism   show
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• Free choice   show
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• Self-actualization   show
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show Flexible and changing perception of one’s identity  
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• Self-image   show
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• Incongruence   show
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• Ideal self   show
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show Collection of thoughts, beliefs, feelings, and images concerning the person one could become  
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• Positive self-regard   show
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• Unconditional positive regard   show
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• Interview (personality)   show
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show Assessing behaviour through direct surveillance  
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• Personality questionnaire   show
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• Rorschach technique   show
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show Projective device consisting of 20 drawings of various situations; people must make up stories about the drawings  
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