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Personality
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The patterns of feelings, motives & behavior that set people apart from one another.
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Trait
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An aspect of personality that is considered to be reasonably stable
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Gordon Allport
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Assumed traits can be inherited & are fixed in the nervous system
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Hans Eysenck
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Came up with introverts & extroverts
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Introvert
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Tend to be imaginative & look inward rather to other people
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Extroverts
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Tend to be active & self-expressive & gain energy from interaction
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5 basic personality factors?
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Extroversion, emotional stability, conscientiousness,agreeableness, and openness to experience
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Psychoanalytic approach
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Teaches that all people undergo inner struggles
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Sigmund Freud
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Origin of inner conflict approach
psychoanalysis: talking cure dream analysis: believed people experience unconscious wishes in their dreams
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Id (Jack from LOTF)
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Represents basic drives, present @ birth
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Ego (Simon from LOTF)
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Develops b/c a child's demand for instant gratification cannot be met
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Superego (Piggy from LOTF)
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Develops during early childhood, functions according to moral principle
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Defense Mechanisms
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Methods the ego uses to avoid recognizing ideas that may cause personal anxiety
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Stages of Development (Freud's)
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Oral, anal, phallic, latency, genital
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Two types of anal personality traits
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Analretentive, analexplusive
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