GRE Psych: Personality

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Created Oct 12, 2011
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Psychodynamic Theory
 
Freud: Postulates the existence of unconscious internal states that motivate the overt actions...
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2 subsystems of the superego
 
A system of right and wrong is substituted for parental punishment and reward: 1. The conscience...
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Instinct
 
An innate psychological representation of a bodily excitation. 2 types: 1. Eros (life), and...
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Defense mechanisms: 2 common characteristics
 
1. deny, falsify, or distort reality, 2. operate unconsciously
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Types of defense mechanisms
 
Repression, suppression, projection, reaction formation, rationalization, regression, sublimation,...
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Carl Jung
 
Ego is the conscious mind. Unconscious mind divided into 2 parts: the personal unconscious...
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Archetype
 
Thought or image that has an emotional element. Major Jungian archetypes include: the persona...
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Extroversion and Introversion
 
Jung: Extroversion is an orientation toward the external, objective world. Introversion is...
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4 psychological functions
 
Jung: thinking, feeling, sensing, and intuiting. Typically, one of those 4 is more differentiated...
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Alfred Adler
 
Inferiority complex: the individual's sense of incompleteness, sense of imperfection, physical...
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Creative self and Style of life
 
Adler: The creative self is the force by which each individual shapes his or her uniqueness...
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Fictional finalism
 
Adler: an individual  is motivated more by his or her expectations of the future than...
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Karen Horney
 
The neurotic personality is governed by one of ten needs. Each of these needs is directed toward...
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Ego psychology
 
Anna Freud: psychoanalytic theory could profit from more direct investigation of the continuous...
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Object-Relations theory
 
Object refers to the symbolic representation of a significant part of the young child's personality....
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Psychoanalytic treatment
 
Hypnosis, free association, dream interpretation, resistance, transference, countertransference.
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Behaviourism
 
Behaviour is learned as people interact with their environment.
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Dollard and Miller
 
Blended some psychoanalytic concepts in a behavioural stimulus-response reinforcement learning...
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Skinner
 
Personality is a collection of behaviour that happens to have been sufficiently reinforced...
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Bandura
 
Learning principles are sufficient to account for personality development. The basis of his...
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Seligman
 
Learned Helplessness: Animals placed in aversive situations that they cannot escape eventually...
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Behaviour therapy
 
Behaviourists view maladjustment and abnormal behaviour as learned through interactions between...
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CBT
 
Change and restructure distorted thinking and irrational thoughts. Beck's cognitive therapy...
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Humanism
 
Emphasize internal processes rather than overt behaviour. Things that distinguish us from animals.
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Kurt Lewin
 
Field theory: personality is dynamic and constantly changing. Personality can be divided up...
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Maslow
 
Hierarchy of human needs: basic -> complex: physiological -> safety -> belonging and...
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George Kelly
 
Individual as a scientist: a person who devises and tests predictions about the behaviour of...
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Humaninst-existential theories
 
Emphasize the process of finding meaning in one's life by making own choices. Mental disorders...
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Carl Rogers
 
Client-centered therapy: people have the freedom to control their own behaviour, and are neither...
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Victor Frankl
 
Mental illness and maladjustment stems from a life of meaninglessness.
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Type A personality
 
Competitive and compulsive. More prone to heart disease. Most prevalent among middle and upper...
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Type B personality
 
Laid-back and relaxed
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Raymond Cattell
 
Factor analysis to measure personality in a more comprehensive way, attempting to account for...
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Hans Eysenck
 
Factor analysis, determined that the broad dimensions of personality were types (called superordinate...
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Gordon Allport
 
3 basic types of traits or dispositions: 1. cardinal, 2. central, and 3. secondary.
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Functional autonomy
 
Allport: a given activity or form of behaviour may become an end or goal in itself, regardless...
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Idiographic vs nomothetic
 
Allport: Idiographic approach to studying personality focuses on individual case studies, while...
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Julian Rotter
 
Internal locus of control: believe that they can control their own destiny. External: outside...
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Machiavellianism
 
Manipulative and deceitful.
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Androgyny
 
Sandra Bem: simultaneously very masculine and very feminine
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Walter Mischel
 
Human behaviour is largely determined by the characteristics of the situation rather than of...

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