Psychology of Personality Exam 1
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Psychology Personality - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔The scientific study of the
psychological forces that make people uniquely themselves
anti wish - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔when you have a dream that is the opposite of
what you want and this dream keeps you in check (for example, "I had a
dream about stealing. I will never do that!")
bereavement exclusion - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔A stipulation in which people who
have experienced the loss of a significant loved one would not be given the
diagnosis of major depression within the first 2 months of the loss. This
exclusion was removed from the DSM-5.
paradigm - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔a model; an example
Public Self - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔The personality or traits you wish to convey to
the rest of the world; how you want to be seen
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,the awareness of the self as seen by the world
Private Self - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔The personality or traits you keep within; the
side of you, you may deem unfit for the rest of society to view
the tendency to introspect and reflect on thoughts/feelings
Creative Illusionism - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Observing a particular behaviors or
traits, and proposing a theory from these observations, often self-reflective.
Theorists then look to validate these theories by observing them in others
(consensual validation)
Components of Adequate Theories - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔"Reality", "Normal" &
Pathological Processes, Change Process & Development. Serve as a "road
map" to the human psyche
Personality/Character - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔includes (but not limited to):
behavior, thoughts, feelings
a reliable set of characteristics that dictate how you interact with the world
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,nomothetic - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Seeking to formulate laws; can describe a
wide range of people. Aristole had this type of theory
idiographic - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔pertaining to an individual case; describes a
single person. May be enough to refute a common law. Galileo has this
type of theory
psychic determinism (FREUD) - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Events have observable
and non-observable characteristics; everything happens with a reason,
known or unknown, especially related to psychological events
The idea that the mind is an active system
Every action is determined by unconscious mental processes!
parapraxis - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Everyday psychosis; something irrational that
has some unconscious reasoning and is unknown unless further explored;
reveals repressed motives (eg. slip of a tongue)
Free association - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Method of psychoanalysis in which an
individual says everything that comes to mind, and the therapist is out of
view. Helps uncover the unconscious meanings of things.
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, Topographical Theory - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔One of Freud's Theory involving
the different mental processes including: Conscious, Preconscious, Censor
System (Defense Mechanisms), Unconscious & Repressed
Conscious - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔The thoughts of your brain that you are
currently aware of
Unconscious - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Majority of your brains thoughts; involves
those thoughts you are not conscious of, and are not easily brought into
consciousness
(the deeper part of the mind, where useless and scary deep dark things are
stored here --- has defense mechanisms here: 1) REPRESSION 2)
DENIAL)
Repressed Content - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Part of your unconscious where
painful events are stored, very DEEP in your unconscious (basically forget
that this area exists)
Defense Mechanisms - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔the brain's censor system; that
distorts reality, and prevents unconscious thoughts from surfacing in an
unacceptable way ( rather alternate routes are formed). Part of censorship
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Psychology Personality - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔The scientific study of the
psychological forces that make people uniquely themselves
anti wish - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔when you have a dream that is the opposite of
what you want and this dream keeps you in check (for example, "I had a
dream about stealing. I will never do that!")
bereavement exclusion - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔A stipulation in which people who
have experienced the loss of a significant loved one would not be given the
diagnosis of major depression within the first 2 months of the loss. This
exclusion was removed from the DSM-5.
paradigm - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔a model; an example
Public Self - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔The personality or traits you wish to convey to
the rest of the world; how you want to be seen
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,the awareness of the self as seen by the world
Private Self - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔The personality or traits you keep within; the
side of you, you may deem unfit for the rest of society to view
the tendency to introspect and reflect on thoughts/feelings
Creative Illusionism - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Observing a particular behaviors or
traits, and proposing a theory from these observations, often self-reflective.
Theorists then look to validate these theories by observing them in others
(consensual validation)
Components of Adequate Theories - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔"Reality", "Normal" &
Pathological Processes, Change Process & Development. Serve as a "road
map" to the human psyche
Personality/Character - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔includes (but not limited to):
behavior, thoughts, feelings
a reliable set of characteristics that dictate how you interact with the world
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,nomothetic - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Seeking to formulate laws; can describe a
wide range of people. Aristole had this type of theory
idiographic - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔pertaining to an individual case; describes a
single person. May be enough to refute a common law. Galileo has this
type of theory
psychic determinism (FREUD) - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Events have observable
and non-observable characteristics; everything happens with a reason,
known or unknown, especially related to psychological events
The idea that the mind is an active system
Every action is determined by unconscious mental processes!
parapraxis - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Everyday psychosis; something irrational that
has some unconscious reasoning and is unknown unless further explored;
reveals repressed motives (eg. slip of a tongue)
Free association - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Method of psychoanalysis in which an
individual says everything that comes to mind, and the therapist is out of
view. Helps uncover the unconscious meanings of things.
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, Topographical Theory - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔One of Freud's Theory involving
the different mental processes including: Conscious, Preconscious, Censor
System (Defense Mechanisms), Unconscious & Repressed
Conscious - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔The thoughts of your brain that you are
currently aware of
Unconscious - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Majority of your brains thoughts; involves
those thoughts you are not conscious of, and are not easily brought into
consciousness
(the deeper part of the mind, where useless and scary deep dark things are
stored here --- has defense mechanisms here: 1) REPRESSION 2)
DENIAL)
Repressed Content - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Part of your unconscious where
painful events are stored, very DEEP in your unconscious (basically forget
that this area exists)
Defense Mechanisms - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔the brain's censor system; that
distorts reality, and prevents unconscious thoughts from surfacing in an
unacceptable way ( rather alternate routes are formed). Part of censorship
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