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2nd Midterm

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show Systems for determining the most important differences in personality, usually by psychometric tests  
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show People describe themselves in interviews or questionnaires  
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show Person is rated by others who have relevant information (friends, family, trained observer)  
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show A concrete indicator that can be measured objectively (speed of conversation, heart rate etc..)  
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show Mathematical procedure used to analyze the correlations among a large number of variables.  
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show A self-report inventory developed by Cattell and colleagues to measure 16 primary personality factors  
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Source Traits   show
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show Consistent behavioral tendencies typically observed in people (interrupting)  
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Extroversion   show
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show How anxious/nervous/worried a person is  
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Psychoticism   show
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show Extroversion, Neuroticism, Psychoticism  
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The Big Five   show
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show Getting ahead, achieving more than others do  
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Communion   show
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Agreeableness   show
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Conscientiousness   show
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show Nonconforming, showing unusually broad interests, imaginative  
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2 Dimensions of Interpersonal Behaviour?   show
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show Allport's approach to study peoples personalities. Cardinal, Central and Secondary Traits.  
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Cardinal Traits   show
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show 5-10 descriptive traits that you would use to describe someone you know. (friendly, trustworthy)  
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Secondary Traits   show
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show Personality tests that ask the person of interest how they think, act, feel.  
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NEO-PI-R   show
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show Widely used self-report test for assessing personality traits and for diagnosing psychological problems  
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Socially Desirable Responding   show
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Projective Tests   show
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show A projective test that requires people to interpret an inkblot  
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Thematic Apperception Test (TAT)   show
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Personality Profiling   show
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Psychodynamic Theory   show
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show The contents of awareness. Things that occupy the focus of your current attention  
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show The part of the mind that contains all memories and thoughts you are not thinking of at the moment but could easily recall.  
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Unconscious Mind   show
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Manifest Content   show
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show A dreams true conscious meaning  
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show Freud. The portion of personality that seeks immediate satisfaction of urges, particularly those related to sex and aggression, without concern for morals.  
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Life Instinct   show
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show Required to explain suicide and other self-destructive behaviour.  
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show "Moral Arm" Component of our personality that deters us from breaking moral customs.  
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Ego   show
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show Unconscious processes used by the ego to ward off the anxiety that comes from conflicts between the superego and the id  
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show Defence Mechanism. The refusal to accept an external fact because it causes anxiety  
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Repression   show
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Projection   show
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show Defence Mechanism. Behaving the opposite of what you really desire.  
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show Defence Mechanism. Unacceptable impulses are channeled into socially acceptable activities (hockey)  
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show First year of life, pleasure from sucking on, of having things in mouth  
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Anal Stage   show
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show Ages 3-5, pleasure from self stimulation of the sexual organs  
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show Boys become attracted to their mother while seeing their father as a threat  
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Electra Complex   show
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Latency Period   show
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Genital Stage   show
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Collective Unconscious   show
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show An approach that focuses on peoples unique capacity for choice, responsibility and growth. (We can overcome our urges and chose whats right)  
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show Set of perceptions that we hold about our abilities and characteristics. (What does it mean to be me)  
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Positive Regard   show
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Conditions of Worth   show
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show A discrepancy between the image we hold of ourselves (self-concept) and the sum of all our experiences.  
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Self-Actualization   show
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Peak Experiences   show
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show Suggests it is reward-punishment experiences and interpretations of those experiences that determine personality growth and development  
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show The most important personality traits come from modelling or copying the bahaviour of others  
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show The amount of control a person feels they have over the environment  
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Self-efficacy   show
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show Beliefs, behaviour and the environment interact to shape what is learned from experience. (If you avoid parties, you are never going to be rewarded)  
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show A controversial debate centering on whether people really do behave consistently across situations  
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Self-Monitoring   show
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Social Psychology   show
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show The study of how people use cognitive processes, such as perception, memory, thought and emotion to make sense of other people as well as themselves  
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show When our expectations about the actions or another person actually lead that person to behave in the expected way  
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Prejudice   show
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show Behaving in an unfair way toward members of another group  
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Out-group   show
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show A group that you belong to or identify with  
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show Members of groups experiencing discrimination to minimize discrimination directed toward themselves as individuals, but to agree with other group members that discrimination against the group as a whole is significant.  
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Auto-Stereotyping   show
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show A person's beliefs regarding the stereotype that out-group members hold about their own group  
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Attributions   show
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External Attribution   show
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show Attributing the cause of a person's behaviour to an internal personality characteristic  
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Fundamental Attribution Error   show
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Actor-Observer   show
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show The tendency to make internal attributions about our own behaviour when the outcome is positive and to blame the situation when our behaviour leads to something negative  
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Attitude   show
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show The tension produced when people act in a way that is inconsistent with their attitudes, attitude change may occur as result of attempting to reduce cognitive dissonance  
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Self-perception theory   show
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show When motivated to process an incoming message we listen carefully to the arguments given and judge them on their merits  
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Peripheral Route   show
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show The study of how the behaviours and thoughts of individuals are affected by the presence of others  
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Social Facilitation   show
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Social Interference   show
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show The reluctance to come to the aid of a person in need when other people are present  
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Diffusion of Responsibility   show
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show The tendency to put out less effort when several people are supposed to be working on a task than when only one is working  
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show The loss if individuality or depersonalization, that comes from being in a group  
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show The tendency to go along with the wishes of the group; when people conform, their opinions, feelings, and behaviours generally start to move toward the group norm  
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Group Polarization   show
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show The tendency for members of a group to become so interested in seeking a consensus or opinion that they start to ignore and even suppress dissenting views.  
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Obedience   show
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show The tendency for people to return in kind the feelings that are shown toward them  
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show The attempt to get someone to like you for some ulterior motive  
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Passionate Love   show
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Companionate Love   show
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Aggression   show
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show Just Passion  
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show Just intimacy  
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show Just commitment  
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Romantic Love   show
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show Passion and Commitment  
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show Low frequency or occurrence among the members of a population  
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Cultural Deviance Criterion   show
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Emotional Distress Criterion   show
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Dysfunction Criterion   show
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Medical Model   show
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show The view that abnormality is labeled that each society assigns to behaviours that it finds unacceptable, even if the behaviours are not of criminal nature  
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DSM-IV   show
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show A class of disorders marked by excessive worrying that interferes with daily life  
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Generalized Anxiety Disorder   show
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Panic Disorder   show
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Agoraphobia   show
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show An anxiety disorder that manifests itself through persistent and uncontrollable obsessions or compulsions  
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show An incapacitating fear of social interactions  
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Specific Phobic Disorder   show
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Somatoform Disorders   show
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show Idea that you have developed a serious disease based on what turns out to be a misinterpretation or normal body reactions  
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show Preocupation with body symptoms that have no identifiable physical cause  
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show The presence of real physical problems such as blindness or paralysis that seem to have no identifiable physical cause  
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show A class of disorders characterized by the separation or dissociation of conscious awareness from previous thoughts or memories  
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show A psychological disorder characterized by an inability to remember important personal information  
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Dissociative Fugue   show
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show A condition in which a person alternates between what appear to be two or more personalities  
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show Prolonged and disabling disruptions in emotional state  
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show Person is hyperactive, talkative, doesn't need sleep.  
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Schizophrenia   show
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show Criminal behaviour, failure to learn from punishment  
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Psychopathy   show
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Bio-Psycho-Social Perspective   show
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show A general sense of helplessness that is acquired when people repeatedly fail in their attempts to control their environment; may play a role in depression  
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