Define the Following Traits of Theories of Personality Flashcards

- the unique and relatively stable ways in which people think, feel, and behave.

- value judgments of a person’s moral and ethical behavior.

•the enduring characteristics with which each person is born.

stable set of tendencies and characteristics that determine those commonalities and differences in people’s behavior (thoughts, feelings, actions) that have continuity in time.

•Psychoanalytic •Behavioristic (including social cognitive theory) •Humanistic •Trait perspectives

Freud’s term for both the theory of personality and the therapy based on it.

- level of the mind in which information is available but not currently conscious.

- level of the mind that is aware of immediate surroundings and perceptions

- level of the mind in which thoughts, feelings, memories, and other information are kept that are not easily or voluntarily brought into consciousness.
–Can be revealed in dreams and Freudian slips of the tongue.

- part of the personality present at birth and completely unconscious

- the instinctual energy that may come into conflict with the demands of a society’s standards for behavior.

- principle by which the id functions; the immediate satisfaction of needs without regard for the consequences

- part of the personality that develops out of a need to deal with reality, mostly conscious, rational, and logical.

-principle by which the ego functions; the satisfaction of the demands of the id only when negative consequences will not result

- part of the personality that acts as a moral center