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| personality | consistent, enduring, and unique characteristics of a person |
| unconscious | contains materials we're unaware of but influeces our concious process and behavior |
| id | unconcsious personality contains as needs, drives, intsincts; operates on the "pleasure principal" |
| ego | in touch with reality principal, negotiates between the other two parts of your brain |
| superego | source of conscioence , counteracts socially undesirable impulses of id |
| defense mechanism | certain specific means to protect ego and itself against unpleasant imputses or circumstances |
| collective unconscious | contains inherited insticts, urges and memories common to all people |
| archetypes | inherited idea, based on experience of one's ancesters, shard perception of the world. |
| inferiority complex | pattern of avoiding feelings of inadequancy rather than trying to overcome the source |
| behaviorism | school that holds that the proper subject matter of psychology is objectivly observable behavior- and nothing else |
| contingencies of reinforcement | the occurence of rewards or punishments following particular behaviors |
| humanistic | school of psychology that emphasizes personal growth and achievement of maximum potential of each unique individual |
| self-actualization | the huminst term for realizing one's unique potential |
| self | one's experience or image of oneself, developed through interaction with others |
| positive regard | viewing oneself in a good light because of pleasant feedback received from interaction with others |
| conditions of worth | the conditions a person must meet in order to regard himself or herself positively |
| unconditional postive regard | the perception that individuals' significant others value them for what htey are which leads the individuals to grant themselves the same regard |
| fully functioning | an individual whose person and self coincide |
| trait | a tendency to react to a situation in a way that remains stable over time |
| cardinal trait | a characteristic that is so pervasive that the person is almost identifed with the trait |
| factor analysis | a complex statistical technique used to identify the underlying reasons variables are correlated |
| factor analysis | a complex statistical technique used to identify the underlying feasons variables are correlated |
| surface trait | a stable charactgersitic that can be observed in certain situations |
| source trait | a stable charectgeristic that can be considered to be at the core of personality |
| extravert | on outgoing, active person who directs his or her energies and interest toward other people and things |
| intravert | a reserved, withdrawn person who is preoccupied with hsi or her inner thoughts and feelings |
| self | accordign to Rogers, is your image of who you anre and what you value in others |
| self efficacy | your view of your chances to succeed |
| observational learning | learnign anew behavior by watching the actions of some one else |
| BF Skinner | behaviorist who focused on what could be seen |
| John Watson | a famous behaviorist |
| Sigmund Freud | Psychoanalyst who believed that bad memories were stored in your unconcious |
| Abraham Maslow | humanist who worked on a personality theory that involved self - actualization |
| Carl Rogers | created a SElf theory |
| George Kelly | created the personal construct theory which focused on the individual and his or her plans, including biases, errors and false conclusions |
| reinfocement | includes the occurrences of a reward or punismment following a particular behavior |
| rationalization | I didn't pass my driver's liscence test because the examiner didn't like me |
| repression | A girl who is rejected by a boy she likes may replace the hurt feelings with apathy |
| denial | a person may deny her obesity and refuse to alter eating and excercise habits to address health problems associeted with being overweight |
| projection | a student feels like others dislike him when in reality he dislikes himself |
| reaction formation | a person who acts strong and confident when she is really scared |
| regression | a senior throws a temper tantrum because they aren't exempt from their math exam |
| sublimation | you are furious with your brother so you go outside and kick a soccer ball |
| displacement | you are upset about your physics grade so you take out your aggression on your next hour teacher |
| Self theory | people suffer from a conflict between what they value in themselves and what they believe other people value in them |
| Personal Construct Theory | theory that states our processes are psychologically channeled by the ways in which we anticipate events |
