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Personality
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- 1PersonalityAn individual's unique and relatively consistent patterns of thinking, feeling, and behaving
- 2personality theoryA theory that attempts to describe and explain similarities and differences in people's patterns of thinking, feeling, and behaving
- 3psychoanalysisFreud's theory of personality emphasizing unconcious determinants of behavior, sexual and aggressive instinctual drives, and the effect of early childhood experiences on later personality development
- 4free associationA psychoanalytic technique in which the patient spontaneously reports all thoughts, feelings, and mental images that arise, revealing unconscious thoughts and emotions
- 5unconsciousIn Freud's theory, a term used to describe thoughts, feelings, wishes, and drives that are operating below the level of conscious awareness
- 6idIn Freud's theory, the completely unconscious, irrational component of personality that seeks immediate satisfaction of instinctual urges and drives
- 7pleasure principleThe motive to obtain pleasure and avoid tension or discomfort; the most fundamental human motive and the guiding principle of the id
- 8egoIn Freud's theory, the partly conscious rational component of personality that regulates thoughts and behavior, and is most in touch with the demands of the external world
- 9reality principleThe capacity to accomodate external demands by postponing gratification until the appropriate time or circumstances exist
- 10superegoIn Freud's theory, the partly conscious, self-evaluative, moralistic component of personality that is formed through the internalization of parental and societal rules
- 11ego defense mechanismslargely conscious distortions of thoughts or perceptions that act to reduce anxiety
- 12repression (in psychoanalytic theory of personality and psychotherapy)The unconscious exclusion of anxiety-provoking thoughts, feelings, and memories from conscious awareness; the most fundamental ego defense mechanism
- 13displacementThe ego defense mechanism that involves unconsciously shifting the target of an emotional urge to a substitute target that is less threatening or dangerous
- 14psychosexual stagesIn Freud's theory, age-related developmental periods in which the child's sexual urges are focused on different body areas and are expressed through the activities associated with those areas
- 15Oedipus complexIn Freud's theory, a child's unconscious sexual desire for the opposite-sex parent, usually accompanied by hostile feelings toward the same-sex parent
- 16identificationIn psychoanalytic theory, an ego defense defense mechanism that involves reducing anxiety by imitating the behavior and characteristics or another person
- 17collective unconsciousIn Jung's theory, the hypothesized part of the unconscious mind that is inherited from previous generations and that contains universally shared ancestral experiences and ideas
- 18humanistic psychologyThe theoretical viewpoint on personality that generally emphasizes the inherent goodness of people, human potential, self-actualization, the self-concept, and healthy personality development
- 19actualizing tendencyIn Rogers's theory, the innate drive to maintain and enhance the human organism
- 20self-conceptThe set of perceptions and beliefs that you hold about yourself
- 21conditional positive regardIn Rogers's theory, the sense that you will be valued and loved only if you behave in a way that is acceptable to others; conditional love or acceptance
- 22unconditional positive regardIn Rogers's theory, the sense that you will be valued and loved even if you don't conform to the standards and expectations of others; unconditional love or acceptance
- 23social cognitive theoryBandura's theory of personality, which emphasizes the importance of conscious cognitive processes, social experiences, self-efficacy beliefs, and reciprocal determinism
- 24reciprocal determinismA model proposed by Bandura that explains human functioning and personality as caused by the interaction of behavioral, cognitive, and environmental factors
- 25self-efficacyThe beliefs that people have about their ability to meet the demands of a specific situation; feelings of self-confidence
- 26traitA relatively stable, enduring predisposition to consistently behave in a certain way
- 27trait theoryA theory of personality that focuses on identifying, describing, and measuring individual differences in behavioral predispositions
- 28surface traitsPersonality characteristics or attributes that can easily be inferred from observable behavior
- 29source traitsThe most fundamental dimensions of personality; the broad, basic traits that are hypothesized to be universal and relatively few in number
- 30five-factor model of personalityA trait theory of personality that identifies extraversion, neuroticism, agreeableness, conscientiousness, and openness to experience as the fundamental building blocks of personality
- 31behavioral geneticsAn interdisciplinary field that studies the effects of genes and heredity on behavior
- 32psychological testA test that assesses a person's abilities, aptitudes, interests, or personality on the basis of a systematically obtained sample of behavior
- 33projective testA type of personality test that involves a person's interpreting an ambiguous image; used to assess unconscious motives, conflicts, psychological defenses, and personality traits
- 34Rorschach Inkblot TestA projective test using inkblots, developed by Swiss psychiatrist Hermann Rorschach in 1921
- 35Thematic Apperception Test (TAT)A projective personality test, developed by Henry Murray and colleagues, that involves creating stories about ambiguous scenes
- 36graphologyA pseudosience that claims to assess personality, social, and occupational attributes based on a person's distinctive handwriting, doodles, and drawing style
- 37self-report inventoryA type of psychological test in which a person's responses to a standardized questions are compared to established norms
- 38Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI)A self-report inventory that assesses personality characteristics and psychological disorders; used to assess both normal and disturbed populations
- 39California Psychological Inventory (CPI)A self-report inventory that assesses personality characteristics in normal populations
- 40possible selvesThe aspect of the self-concept that includes images of the sales that you hope, fear, or expect to become in the future
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