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The unique and relatively stable ways in which people think, feel and behave.

Value judgements of a person's moral and ethical behavior.

The enduring characteristics with which each person is born.

Freud's term for both the theory of personality and the theory based upon it.

Founder of spychoanalytic school of thought which focuses on the role of the unconscious on behavior.

Level of the mind which is aware of immediate surroundings and perceptions.

Level of the mind in which information is available, but not currently conscious.

Level of the mind in which thoughts, feelings, memories and other information are kept that are not easily or voluntarily brought into consciousness.

Part of the personality present at birth and completely unconscious.

Principle by which the id functions; the immediate satsifaction of needs without regard for the consequences.

The instinctual energy that may come into conflict with the demands of a society's standards for behavior.

Part of the personality that develops out of a need to deal with reality, mostly conscious, rational and logical.

Principle by which the ego functions; the satisfaction of the demands of the id only when negative consequences will not result.

Part of the personality that acts as a moral center.

Part of the superego that produces pride or guilt, depending on how acceptable behavior is.

Disorder in which the person does not fully resolve the conflict in a particular psychosexual stage resulting in personality traits and behavior associated with that earlier stage.

An area of the body especially sensitive to sexual stimulation.

Five stages of personality development proposed by Freud and tied to the sexual development of the child.

First stage occurring in the first year of life in which the mouth is the erogenous zone and weaning is the primary conflict.

Second stage occurring from about 1 to 3 years of age, in which the anus is the erogenous zone and toilet training is the source of conflict.

A personal fixated in the anal stage who is messy, destructive and hostile.

A person fixated in the anal stage who is neat, fussy, stingy and stubborn.

Third stage occurring from about 3 to 6 years of age, in which the child discover sexual feelings.

Situation occurring in the phallic stage in which a child develops a sexual attraction to the opposite-sex parent and jealousy of the same-sex parent.

Defense mechanism in which a person tries to become like someone else to deal with anxiety.

Fourth stage occurring during the school years, in which the sexual feelings of the child are repressed while the child develops in other ways.

Fifth stage of Freud's theory occurring from adolescence on; sexual energy is focused on sexual activity with others.

Freud's term for both the theory of personality and the therapy based on it.

Followers of Freud who developed their own competing psychodynamic theories.

Swiss psychiatrist who was a pioneer in the psychoanalytic school of thought and was heavily influenced by Freud.

Jung's name for the unconscious mind as described by Freud.

Jung's name for the memories shared by all members of the human species.

Jung's collective, universal human memories.

Once of the Neo-Freudians who continued the pursuit of the unconscious.  He focused on the need to power as a driving force in an individual's life.

A neo-Freudian who focused on more equal representation of men and women in psychoanalytic theory and also the role of basic anxiety as a motiviating force.

Anxiety created when a child is born into the bigger and more powerful world of older children and adults.

Developmental psychologist who believed that personality developed thought a series of psychosocial crises.

Personalities typified by maladaptive ways of dealing with relationships in Horney's theory.

In behaviorisim, sets of well-learned responses that have become automatic.

Theorists who emphasize the importance of both the influence of the other people's behavior and of a person's own expectancies of learning.

Learning theory that includes cognitive processes such as anticipating, juding, memory and imitation of models.

Developed the theory of reciprocal determinism to explain personality development.

Bandura's explanation of how the factors of environment, personal characteristics and behavior can interact to determine future behavior.

Individual's expectancy of how effective his or her efforts to accomoplish a goal will be in an particular circumstance.

The tendency for people to assume that they either have control or do not have control over events and consquences in their lives.

A person's subjective feeling that a particular behavior will lead to a reinforcing consequence.

The "third force" in psychology that focuses on those aspects of personality that make people uniquely human, such as subjective feelings and freedom of choice.

Humanist psychologist who focuses on the role of the self-concept and positive regard on personality development

The striving to fulfill one's innate capacities and capabilities.

The image of oneself that develops from interactions with important, significant people in one's life.

Achetype that works with the ego to manage other achetypes and balance the personality.

One's perception of whom one should be or would like to be.

One's perception of actual characteristics, trait and abilities.

Warmth, affection, love and respect that comes from significant others in one's life.

Positive regard that is given without conditions or string attached.

Positive regard that is given only when the person is doing what the providers of positive regard wish.

A person who is in touch with and trusting of the deepest, innermost urges and feelings.

Theories that endeavor to describe the characteritics that make up human personality in an effort to predict future behavior.

A consistent, enduring way of thinking, feeling and behaving.

Aspects of personality that can easily be seen by other people in the outward actions of a person.

The more basic traits that underlie the surface traits, forming the core of personality.

Dimension of personality in which people tend to withdraw from excessive stimulation.

Model of personality traits that describes five basic trait dimensions.

One of the five factors; willingness to try new things and be open to new experiences.

The care a person gives to organization and thoughtfulness of others; dependability.

Dimension of personality referring to one's need to be with other people.

People who are outgoing and sociable.

People who prefer solitude and dislike being the center of attention.

The emotional style of a person that may range from easygoing, friendly and likeable to grumpy, crabby and unpleasant.

Degree of emotional instability or stability.

The assumption that the particular circumstances of any given situation will influence the way in which a trait is expressed.

Field of study devoted to discovering the genetic bases for personality characteristics.

Method of personality assessment in which the professional asks questions of the client and allows the client to answer, either in a structured or unstructed fashion.

Tendency of an interviewer to allow positive characteristics of a client to influence the assessments of the client's behavior and statements.

Defence mechanism inolving placing, or "projecting" one's own unacceptable thoughts onto others, as if the thoughts actually belonged to those others and not to oneself.

Personality assessments that present ambiguous visual stimuli to the client and ask the client to respond with whatever comes to mind.

Projective test that uses 10 inkblots as the ambiguous stimuli.

Projective test that uses 20 pictures of people in abmiguous situations as the visual stimuli.

Referring to concepts and impressions that are only valid within a particular person's perception and may be influenced by biases, prejudice and personal experiences.

Assessment in which the professional observes the client engaged in ordinary, day-to-day behavior in either a clinical or natural setting.

Assessment in which a numerical value is assigned to specific behavior that is listed in the scale.

Assessment in which the frequency of a particular behavior is counted.

Paper and pencil or computerized test that consists of statements that require a specific, standardized response from the person taking the test.