Unit 10 AP Psych (personality)
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 ego | reality principle; desire to bring pleasure, not pain. |
| individualism | giving priority to one's own goals over group goals and defining one's identity in terms of personal attributes rather than group identification. |
| id | operates on pleasure principle; demands immediate gratification. |
| Raymond Cattel | developed 16 personality factor test to measure different degrees of universal characteristics. |
| Karen Horney | theorized that men suffer womb envy. |
| reaction formation | expressing opposite of how one feels. |
| Oedipus Complex | young boys fall in love with their mother and are jealous of their father. (Freud) |
| Electra Complex | young girls fall in love with their fathers and envy their mothers. (Freud) |
| collective unconcious | similarities between cultures; universal concepts of human species. |
| Allport | proposed certain traits had larger influences on personality. |
| Spotlight Effect | overestimating others notice or evaluation of our appearance, performance, and mistakes. |
| Latency | the dormant stage of sexual fellings in psychosexual theory. |
| projection | psychoanalytical defence mechanism in which people disguise their own threatening impulses by attributing them to others. |
| superego | moral compass, conscience, strive for perfection. |
| repression | defense mechanism that banishes anxiety-arousing thoughts. |
| factor analysis | statistical technique used to reduce all traits to a small number. |
| free will | an individual's ability to choose their own destiny. |
| self-actualization | reaching your full potential. |
| self-serving bias | readiness to perceive ourselves favorably. |
| defensive self-esteem | focuses on sustaining itself; failures and criticisms feel threatening. associated with aggressive and antisocial behavior. |
| intraversion-extraversion scale | Hans Eyesenck proposed personality be measure on this square. |
| Big Five Theory | Agreeableness, openness, extraversion, neuroticism, conscientiousness. |
| Carl Rogers | believes that people need to feel accepted to achieve. |
| innately good | humanistic theorists view people as this. |
| determinism | the belief that what happens is dictated by what has happened in the past. |
| Projective Tests | stimuli designed to trigger inner dynamics. results are weak and unreliable. (TAT and Rorschach) |
| subjectivity | why projective tests are criticized. |
| personality inventories | longer questionnaire covering a wide range of feelings and behaviors. |
| self-efficacy | optimism of one's own ability to get things done. |
| Bandura | suggested that personality is interaction between the person, the environment, and the behavior. |
| internal locus | people feel responsible for what happens to them. |
| external locus | luck and outside forces control destiny. |
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