Psychology of Personality Exam 1
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Psychology Personality - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔The scientific study of the
psychological forces that make people uniquely themselves
Public Self - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔The personality or traits you wish to convey to
the rest of the world; how you want to be seen
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
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
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,Personality/Character - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔includes (but not limited to):
behavior, thoughts, feelings
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 - 🧠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
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
Preconscious - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔The thoughts of your brain that you are not
currently aware of, but can be brought into conscious awareness with the
correct stimuli/arousal
Unconscious - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Majority of your brains thoughts; involves
those thoughts you are not conscious of, and are not easily brought into
consciousness
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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(Shim) 2024/2025 Exam Questions and
Verified Answers | Already Graded A+
Psychology Personality - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔The scientific study of the
psychological forces that make people uniquely themselves
Public Self - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔The personality or traits you wish to convey to
the rest of the world; how you want to be seen
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
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
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PRIVACY STATEMENT. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
,Personality/Character - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔includes (but not limited to):
behavior, thoughts, feelings
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 - 🧠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
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
Preconscious - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔The thoughts of your brain that you are not
currently aware of, but can be brought into conscious awareness with the
correct stimuli/arousal
Unconscious - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Majority of your brains thoughts; involves
those thoughts you are not conscious of, and are not easily brought into
consciousness
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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