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unconscious
- accoridng to Freud, a reservoir of mostly unacceptable thoughts, wishes, feelings, and memories.
- according to modern psychologists, it's information processing of which we are unaware.
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unconditional positive regard
according to Rogers, an attitude of total acceptance toward another person.
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trait
a characteristic pattern of behavior or a disposition to feel and act, as assessed by self report inventories and peer reports.
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TAT, thematic appreciation test
a projective test where people express their inner feelings and thoughts about an ambiguous picture
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terror-management theory
a theory of death related anxiety, explores people's emotional and behavioral responses to reminders of their impending DOOOOM
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superego
your idealistic self, your sense of morals, your conscience, your lofty goals, etc
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spotlight effect
overestimating others noticing our appearance, clothes, performance, blunders (as though a spotlight is shining on us when we walk in the room, and everyone is just picking us apart positively or negatively)
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social cognitive perspective
views behavior as the interaction between people's traits (including their thinking) and their social context
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self-serving bias
a readiness to perceive oneself favorably
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self esteem
one's feelings of high or low worth
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self concept
all our thoughts and feelings about ourselves, in answer to the question, "who am I"
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self actualization
according to Maslow, one of the ultimate psychological needs that arises after basic physical and pyschological needs are met, and self esteem is achieved; the motivation to fulfill one's potential.
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self
in modern psychology it's the organizer of thoughts, feelings and actions. the center of our personality, (our overall average self.)
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repression
in psychoanalytic theory, the basic mechanism that banishes anxiety arising thoughts, emotions and memories from the consciousness.
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regression
psychoanalytic perspective it's a defense mechanism, when faced by extreme anxiety we return to an earlier infantile pscyhosexual stage, where some psychic energy remains fixtated.
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reciprocal determinism
the interacting influences of behavior, internal cognition and environment
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reaction formation
- A defense mechanism where an individual acts in a manner opposite from his or her unconscious beliefs. A homosexual who joined a gay hate group would be an example of reaction formation. Freud believed that
- defense mechanisms helped us cope with the world around us by letting us repress our deepest unconscious fears.
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rationalization
- Rationalization is a defense mechanism identified by Freud. According to Freud when people are not able to deal with the reasons they behave in particular ways, they protect themselves by creating self-justifying explanations for their behaviors. For example, if I
- flunk out of school because I didn't study properly it might be so hard for me to deal with that I rationalize my behaviors by saying that I simply didn't have enough time to study because I have a full-time job, a baby at home, and so many other demands on my time.
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psychosexual stages
Feud's stages of devolpment in which the id focuses it's pleasure senses: oral, anal, phallic, then latent and genital.
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psychoanalysis
Feud's theory of personality that attributes thoughts and actions to unconscious motives and conflicts: the technigues used in treating psychological disorders by seeking to expose and interpret unconscious tensions
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