Personality+Development

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Definitions:

 * trait theory with five constructs of personality: Extraversion, Openness, Agreeableness, Conscientiousness, and Emotional Stability ||  Big Five  ||
 * Jung's concept of shared inherited memories ||  collective unconscious  ||
 * giving priority to group goals over individual goals ||  collectivism  ||
 * psychodynamic theory's idea of protecting ego by distorting reality ||  defense mechanism  ||
 * defense mechanism shifting inappropriate desires on to more acceptable target ||  displacement  ||
 * Sheldon's body type, thin and aggressive ||  ectomorph  ||
 * part of Freud's theory of personality that makes the decisions ||  ego  ||
 * Sheldon's body type, plump and jolly ||  endomorph  ||
 * theory with 3 constructs of personality; phychoticism, extraversion and neuroticism ||  Eysenck, Hans  ||
 * Freud's idea that people develop a lingering pleasure from certain stimuli ||  fixate  ||
 * technique to reveal subconscious, say the first thing that comes to mind ||  free association  ||
 * one's sense of being male or female ||  gender identity  ||
 * part of Freud's personality theory, wants and desires ||  id  ||
 * (Freud) children internalize parent's values into their superego ||  identification  ||
 * giving priority to one's goals over the goals of the group ||  individualism  ||
 * learn to surrender to avoid repeated aversive events ||  learned helplessness  ||
 * humanist psychologist, focuses on self-actualization ||  Maslow, Abraham  ||
 * test screening for emotional disorders ||  MMPI (Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory  ||
 * personality test measuring 4 constructs and 16 possible personality types ||  Myers-Briggs Type Indicator  ||
 * new generation of psychoanalytical theories building on Freud's work ||  Neo-Freudian  ||
 * sense of controlling our environment versus helplessness ||  personal control  ||
 * test measuring personality traits ||  personality inventory  ||
 * an individual's unique pattern of characteristics effecting behavior ||  personality  ||
 * information that is not conscious, but retrievable to conscious ||  preconscious  ||
 * personality test that attempts to discover subconscious motivations ||  projective test  ||
 * Freud's therapy technique, examine subconscious to find and change motivations ||  psychoanalysis  ||
 * Freud's theory of personality development focusing on sexual pleasure ||  psychosexual stages  ||
 * defense mechanism replacing self-justifying explanations for threatening unconscious reasons for one's actions ||  rationalization  ||
 * defense mechanism, switching unacceptable emotions for their opposite ||  reaction formation  ||
 * interaction of personality factors and environment ||  reciprocal determinism  ||
 * defense mechanism, retreating to more infantile behavior to divert threatening thoughts ||  regression  ||
 * how dependable the results of a test are ||  reliability  ||
 * defense mechanism, banishing unpleasant thoughts from consciousness ||  repression  ||
 * humanist psychologist, focused on accepting ourselves and others ||  Rogers, Carl  ||
 * projective test using random pictures to spur thoughts ||  Rorschach inkblot test  ||
 * evolving to become one's unique ultimate potential ||  self-actualization  ||
 * thoughts and feelings about ourselves, one's identity ||  self-concept  ||
 * one's feeling of high or low self-worth ||  self-esteem  ||
 * readiness to perceive oneself favorably ||  self-serving bias  ||
 * part of Freud's personality, represents internalized ideals and judgments, your conscience ||  superego  ||
 * projection test using a picture to spur a narrative ||  Thematic Apperception Test (TAT)  ||
 * characteristic of personality ||  Trait  ||
 * (Rogers) attitude of total acceptance toward another ||  unconditional positive regard  ||
 * (Freud) unacceptable thoughts kept below awareness ||  unconscious  ||
 * extent to which a test measures what it is suppose to measure ||  validity  ||