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personality |
a person's broad long-lasting patterns of behavior |
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psychoanalysis |
theory that personality is based on impulses and needs from the unconscious and on childhood experience |
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Freud (Sigmund) |
developed the pschoanalytic perspective to personality |
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unconscious |
the part of our mind or personality that contains information or conflicts of which we are not aware and have no access to |
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free association |
Freudian technique where a patients says anything that comes to mind and thereby reveals true unconscious material |
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repression |
the process of pushing needs and desires that cause guilt or fear into the unconscious |
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libido |
Freudian idea of internal energy force that seeks discharge in sexual or aggressive actions |
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id |
part of our psyche (mind/personality) that contains our basic survival needs and primal drives such as sex, aggression - very much like an animal |
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ego |
part of our psyche (mind/personality) that balances desires of the id and superego - the "self" |
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superego |
part of our psyche (mind/personality) that holds our moral code, our conscience |
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oral stage |
first of the psychosexual stages of development in which weaning is the major obstacle to overcome |
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anal stage |
second of Freud's psychosexual stages in which potty-training is the key part of development |
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phallic stage |
third part of Freud's psychosexual stages of development in which the Oedipus complex emerges |
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Oedipus complex |
Freudian theory that little boys have their first sexual feelings toward their mothers and must seek to identify with the father instead of compete with him |
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Jung (Carl) |
a disciple of Freud, one of the neo-Freudians - believed in the collective unconscious |
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archetypes |
Jung's term for inherited universal human concepts such as hero, mother, underdog) |
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collective unconscious |
Jung;s term for the portion of a person that contains ideas shared by the whole human race |
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persona |
Jung's term for a "mask" people wear to hide their real selves in different situations |
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neo-Freudians |
psychologists who believed in the unconscious, but thought it had more to do with social interactions than deep sexual and aggressive urges |
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Erikson (Erik) |
Developed a theory of 8 stages of development - there is a major confilct to overcome at each stage |
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Identity vs. Identity Confusion |
the stage of Erikson's model that adolescents are at as they try to define who they are and what they value |
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Bandura (Albert) |
believed personality is formed in large part from modeling our behaviors on those we observe around us |
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modeling |
learning by imitating others |
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ideal self |
the humanist idea that we all have a perfect version of ourselves that we try to live up to |
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fully functioning individual |
humanist idea of who we are once we behave the way we feel we should (live up to our ideal selves) |
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Maslow (Abraham) |
developed a sequence of needs that we fill in order and developed the idea of self-actualization |
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self-actualized |
Maslow's term for a person who has realized the full potential of his or her skills and abilities |
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personality traits |
more or less permanent personality characteristics (agreeableness, neuroticism, openness, etc.) |
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16 personality factors |
theory of personality developed by Raymond Cattell that argues we have a certain set number of personality traits |
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