| Term | Definition |
|---|
| type A | this type of people tend to feel a sense of time pressure and are easily angered |
| type B | this type of people tend to be relaxed and easygoing |
| anal expulsive personality | people with this tend to be messy and disorganized |
| anal retentive personality | people with this tend to be meticulously neat, hyperorganized, and a bit compulsive |
| eros | the life instincts |
| thanatos | the death instincts |
| repression | a defense mechanism that works by blocking thought out from conscious awareness |
| denial | a defense mechanism that works by not accepting the ego-threatening truth |
| displacement | a defense mechanism that works by redirecting one's feeling toward another person or object |
| projection | a defense mechanism that works by believing that the feelings one has toward someone else are actually held by the other person and directed at oneself |
| reaction formation | a defense mechanism that works by expressing the opposite of how one truly feels |
| regression | a defense mechanism that works by returning to an earlier, comforting form of behavior |
| rationalization | a defense mechanism that works by coming up with a beneficial result of an undesirable occurrence |
| sublimation | a defense mechanism that works by channeling one's frustration toward a different goal |
| Carl Jung | he proposed that the unconscious consists of personal unconscious and collective unconscious |
| Alfred Adler | he focused on the conscious role of the ego |
| inferiority | motivation from the fear of failure |
| superiority | motivation from the desire to achieve |
| Hans Eyesenck | he classified people along the introversion-extraversion scale and the stable-unstable scale |
| Raymond Cattell | he developed the 16 PF test |
| big five personality traits | extraversion, agreeableness, conscientiousness, openness to experience, and emotional stability |
| factor analysis | a statistical technique that allows researchers to cluster traits together as factors |
| idiographic theorists | trait theorists that believe people need to be represented by few traits that best characterize them |
| Gordon Allport | he came up with the idea of cardinal dispositions, central dispositions, and secondary dispositions |
| Albert Bandura | he believed that personality is created by an interaction between the triadic reciprocality |
| triadic reciprocality | also known as reciprocal determinism, this is the person, the enviornment, and the person's behavior |
| George Kelly | he proposed the personal-construct theory |
| personal-construct theory | a theory that people develop their own individual systems of personal constructs |
| fundamental postulate | the idea that people's behavior is influenced by cognitions |
| internal locus of control | people with this feel as if they are responsible for what happened to them |
| external locus of control | people with this believe that luck and other forces outside of their own control determine their destinies |
| projective test | a test that involves asking people to interpret ambiguous stimuli |
| Rorschach inkblot test | a test that involves showing people inkblots and asking them to describe what they see |
| TAT | thematic apperception test, a test that consists of a number of cards, each of which contains a picture |
| Barnum effect | the tendency of people to see themselves in vague, stock descriptions of personality |
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