Theories of Personality
Across
- 4. The proponent of the Social Cognitive Theory.
- 5. A disposition that shows general characteristics that are found in every person.
- 7. Something that a person strives for in order to detach from the feeling of inferiority.
- 8. The proponent of a theory where people are continuously motivated by one need or another.
- 10. The proponent of Existential Theory.
- 12. Focuses on the role of the individual’s conscious life experience and choices in personality development
- 16. A set of related assumptions that allows scientists to use logical deductive reasoning to formulate testable hypotheses.
- 17. The dynamic organization within the individual of those psychophysical systems that determine his characteristic behavior and thought. (Gordon Allport)
- 19. Refers to a person’s expectation that some specific reinforcement or set of reinforcements will occur in a given situation.
- 20. Unacceptable or threatening impulses or feelings are seen as originating with someone else, usually the target of the impulses or feelings.
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- 1. Effects of environment on behavior.
- 2. An intimate non-sexual friendship between two people.
- 3. In Jung’s Analytical Psychology, it is the turning outward of psychic energy so that a person is oriented toward the objective and away from the subjective.
- 6. Latin for “mask.”
- 9. In Horney’s Psychoanalytic Social Theory, it is one of the protective strategies/devices where they detach themselves to others so as not to feel anxious.
- 11. In the theory Person-Centered Therapy, it is a part of Incongruence in the Barriers to Psychological Health where it is a state of uneasiness of tension whose cause is unknown.
- 13. Surrendering of one’s individuality in order to meet the wishes of others.
- 14. An archetype by Carl Jung that represents qualities we do not wish to acknowledge and attempt to hide from ourselves and others. (Analytical Psychology)
- 15. Focuses on the role of the unconscious mind in the development of personality.
- 18. In Horney’s Psychoanalytic Social Theory about the intrapsychic conflicts, it addresses one’s conflict by painting a god-like picture of himself/herself.