Personality
Terms
undefined, object
copy deck
- 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