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Personality

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psychoanalytic
looks at history, could have unconscious motive to self destruct
trait
along a continuum...shy to outgoing....passive to aggressive
humanistic
all people are good and have innate drive to grow
behavioral/social learning
different situations make us certain ways. input and output
cognitive
thoughts about certain situations. person sees the even then takes action
theories
how personalities developed, changes, causes
parsimonious
basic and simple theory
prove
research can't ever ___ anything?
independent
manipulated variable
dependent
outcome variable
hypothesis
comes straight from a theory
case study
looks at one person from a particular group
exploratory
research that have experiments to generate more ideas
consistency
measure what they are supposed to be measuring
construct
measures something that isn't tangible ex. intelligence
congruent
correlate with other tests already out there
discriminant
items on your test aren't correlating with things related to your test
behavioral
test can actually predict something about someone's behavior
free association
client says whatever comes to mind
ana o
hysteria
preconscious
right under surface, dig a little
id
pleasure principle
superego
social norms, guilt of when we do wrong
ego
mediator between others
libido
life instinct
thanatos
death instinct
sublimation
something deemed unacceptable into something acceptable
repression
shoving things down
displacement
from one situation into another situation
denial
refuse to own up to situation
intellectualization
stating and accepting basic facts
projection
attribute your feelings to what someone else is doing
dissociation
break with reality
undoing
attone for their mistakes
phallic
age 3-6, focus on genitals
latency
kids are exposed to what is acceptable in society when they start school
manifest
what you see in the dream
latent
what your dream means
transference
client puts feelings and emotions towards someone else onto therapist, want
counter transference
therapist treats patient as they would someone personally, don't want
hypnogogic
wake up in REM stage
reality
fear a dog biting you
neurotic
worried our id impulses will actually take over
moral
superego, making sure you follow the rules
affiliative
facilitate bonding or strengthen relationships, humor
self enhancing
jokes to improve your day
aggressive
sarcastic, put others down humor
self defeating
make fun of themselves before someone else can
catharsis
reduce the tension in stressful situations

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