Personality

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  1. 2. Freud's theory of personality that attributes thoughts and actions to unconscious motives and conflicts; the techniques used in treating psychological disorders by seeking to expose and interpret unconscious tensions.
  2. 8. The interacting influences of behavior, internal cognition, and environment.
  3. 11. A test (such as the MMPI) developed by testing a pool of items and then selecting those that discriminate between groups.
  4. 12. An individual characteristics pattern of thinking feeling, and acting
  5. 13. In psychoanalytic theory, the ego's protective methods of reducing anxiety by unconsciously distorting reality
  6. 15. The largely conscious, "executive" part of personality that, according to Freud, mediates among the demands of the id, superego, and reality.
  7. 16. In contemporary psychology, assumed to be the center of personality, the organizer of our thoughts, feelings, and actions.
  8. 17. "the main purpose of a positive psychology is to measure, understand, and then build the human strengths and the civic virtudes"
  9. 19. "The individual feels at home in life and feels his existence to be worthwhile just so far as he is useful to others and is overcoming feelings of inferiority"
  10. 20. The scientific study of optimal human functioning; aims to discover and promote strengths and virtues that enable individuals and communities to thrive
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  1. 1. A characteristics pattern of behavior or a disposition to feel and act, as assessed by self-report inventories and peer reports.
  2. 3. According to Maslow, one of the ultimate psychological needs that arises after basic physical and psychological needs are met and self-esteem is achieved.
  3. 4. The process by which, according to Freud, children incorporate their parents' values into their developing superegos
  4. 5. Excessive self-love and self-absorption
  5. 6. All our thoughts and feelings about ourselves, in answer to the question, "Who am I?"
  6. 7. Views behavior as influenced by the interaction between people's traits (including their thinking) and their social context.
  7. 9. The part of personality that, according to Freud, represent internalized ideals and provides standards for judgment (the conscience) and for future aspirations
  8. 10. One's feelings of high or low self-worth
  9. 14. giving priority to one's own goal over group goals and defining one's identity in terms of personal attributes rather that group identifications.
  10. 18. A reservoir of unconscious psychic energy that, according to Freud, strives to satisfy basic sexual and aggressive drives.