Myers Personality Italicized words
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 preconscious | a part of the mind where we can temporarily store thoughts from which we can retrieve them into conscious awareness |
| reality principle | the principle that the ego seeks to gratify the id's impulses in realistic ways that will bring long-term pleasure |
| manifest content | the remembered content of dreams |
| latent content | the unconscious wishes of a dreamer |
| oral stage, 0-18 months | pleasure centers on the mouth - sucking, chewing, and biting |
| anal stage, 18-36 months | pleasure focuses on bowel and bladder elimination; coping with demands for control |
| phallic stage, 3-6 years | pleasure zone is the genitals; coping with incestuous feelings |
| latency stage (6 to puberty) | dormant sexual feelings |
| genital stage (puberty on) | maturation of sexual interests |
| inferiority complex | an idea proposed by Alfred Adler that the individual is overcoming feelings of inferiority |
| Karen Horney | countered Freud's idea that women suffer "penis envy" and have weak superegos |
| Carl Jung | proposed the idea of a collective unconscious |
| psychodynamic theory | a descendant of psychoanalytic theory; held by Neo-Freudian theory |
| false consensus effect | the tendency to overestimate the extent to which others share our beliefs and behaviors |
| factor analysis | the statistical procedure to identify clusters of test items that tap basic components of intelligence (or, in this case, personality traits) |
| Conscientiousness, Agreeableness, Neuroticism, Openness, and Extraversion | CANOE |
| Conscientiousness | Organized vs. Disorganized Careful vs. Careless Disciplined vs. Impulsive |
| Agreeableness | Soft-hearted vs. Ruthless Trusting vs. Suspicious Helpful vs. Uncooperative |
| Neuroticism | Calm vs. anxious Secure vs. Insecure Self-satisfied vs. self-pitying |
| Openness | Imaginative vs. Practical Preference for variety vs. Preference for routine Independent vs. Conforming |
| Extraversion | Sociable vs. Retiring Fun-loving vs. Sober Affectionate vs. Reserved |
| person-situation controversy | is behavior influenced more by environment or does a consistent personality exist |
| attributional style | the way that people rationalize consequences |
| self | in contemporary psychology, assumed to be the center of personality, the organizer of our thoughts, feelings, and actions |
| self-esteem | one's feelings of high or low self worth |
| self-control | the ability to control impulses and delay gratification |
| neuroticism | a personality trait characterized by instability, anxiety, aggression, etc |
| conscientiousness | state of being controlled by or done according to conscience; scrupulous meticulous; careful; painstaking; particular |
| openness | ability to tolerate change |
| extroversion | the directing of one's interest outwards, esp towards social contacts |
| agreeableness | the state of being willing or ready to agree or consent |
| Alfred Adler | proposed inferiority complex |
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