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Flashcards by Mary Ann Jacob, updated more than 1 year ago
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Created by Mary Ann Jacob
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| Question | Answer |
| Personality | The unique characteristics that account for enduring patterns of inner experience and outward behaviour |
| Reality Principle | The awareness that it is not always possible or acceptable to have all wants and desires met |
| Conscience | entity that leads us to feel guilt and sometimes anxiety |
| Id | Psychoanalytic Theory personality element representing basic instinctual drives, such as those related to eating, sleeping, sex, and comfort |
| Ego | Psychoanalytic Theory the personality element that works to help satisfy the drives of the id while complying with the constraints placed on behaviour by the environment |
| Superego | Psychoanalytic Theory the personality element in charge of determining which impulses are acceptable to express openly and which are unacceptable; develops as we observe and internalize the behaviours of others in our culture |
| Psychosexual Stages | Psychoanalytical Theory stages in the development of personality labelled oral, anal, phallic, latency and genital. Primarily influenced by sexuality and agression |
| Neurosis | an abnormal behaviour pattern caused by unresolved conflict between the id, ego, and superego |
| defense mechanisms | unconscious tactics employed by the ego to protect the individual from anxiety |
| Repression | the most basic defense mechanism; the process of keeping unpleasant memories or thoughts buried deep within the unconscious mind |
| Denial | a defense mechanism; the process of refusing to recognize an existing situation |
| self- actualization | the need of humans to fulfill their full and special potential; the highest level of need in Maslow's hierarchy of needs |
| Positive Psychology | an area of psychology focusing on positive experience and healthy mental health functioning |
| self-concept | a pattern of self-perception that remains consistent over time and can be used to characterize an individual |
| unconditional positive regard | acceptance without terms or conditions |
| personality traits | tendencies to behave in certain ways that remain relatively constant across situations |
| superfactor | a fundamental dimension of personality made up of a related cluster of personality traits |
| five-factor theory | An empirically derived trait theory that proposes 5 major trait categories: agreeableness/disagreeableness extroversion/introversion neuroticism/stability conscientiousness/irresponsibility openness to experience/unimaginativeness |
| Situationism | the view that behaviour is governed primarily by the variables in a given situation rather than internal traits |
| interactionism | a view emphasizing the relationship between a person's underlying personality traits and the reinforcing aspects of the situations in which they choose to put themselves |
| personality inventory | a questionnaire designed to assess various aspects of personality |
| Collective Unconscious | Inherited memories shared by all of mankind also known as archetypes (Jung) |
| Self | Our current "whole" - we seek to integrate the minds various conscious and unconscious elements into the coherent whole known as the "self" |
| Self Concept | a pattern of self perception that remains consistent over time and can be used to characterize an individual (how we see ourselves and how others see us) Carl Rogers |
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