| Term | Definition |
|---|
| humanism | the idea that people are motivated by the conscious desire for personal growth. |
| self-actualization | the need to become what one believes he/she is capable of becoming |
| existentialism | the idea that people have free will |
| congruence | agreement or consistency between one's self-concept and one's experience |
| B.F. Skinner | author of Walden 2 and a behaviorist psychologist, belieed wants are due to reinforcements |
| traits | an aspect of personality considered to be reasonably stable |
| preconcious | descriptive of information not concious, but retriveable into conciousness |
| Abraham Maslow | humanist psychologist, stressed hierarchy of needs and self-actualization |
| frames of reference | various viewpoints |
| Carl Rodgers | another advocate of the humanistic approach, his theory revolved around people's sense of self and how their choices effect their personality |
| Gordon Allport | trait theorisit who believed inherited traits were the building blocks of people's personality |
| John B. Watson | believed expernal influences shaped people's behavior, not personality. First behaviorist. |
| Albert Bandera | advocate of the social-learning theory, believes that people can act intentionally to influence their environment |
| personality | the pattern of feelings, notives and behavior that set people apart from one another. |
| introverts | imaginitive, look inward for inspiration |
| extroverts | active and self-expressive, draw energy from other people |
| id | represents basic drives such as hunger |
| ego | tries to satisfy id without causing harm to the individual |
| superego | the conscience |
| defense mechanisms | methods the ego uses to avoid recogonizing ideas that may cause anxiety |
| repression | removing anxiety-causing ideas from concious thought |
| rationalization | self-deception used to justify inappropriate behavior/ideas |
| displacement | the transfer of an idea/impulse onto another, less threatening object |
| regression | returning to behavior from an earlier stage of development |
| projection | projecting impulses onto the outside world |
| reaction formation | acting contrary to one's true feelings in order to hide them |
| denail | refusal to accept reality of anything bad |
| sublimination | turning unacceptable impuleses into socially acceptable behavior |
| collective unconcious | a store of concepts shared by all people |
| archetypes | ideas and images of the accumulated experience of all human beings |
| inferiority complex | the need to overcome our own feelings of inadequacy and inferiority |
| socialization | process by which people learn socially desireable behaviors in their culture and adopt them as part of their personality |
| acculturation | the process of adapting to a new and different culture |
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