child psych

The collection of relatively enduring patterns of reacting to and interacting with others and the environment that distinguishes each child or adult.

The five primary dimensions of adult personality identified by researchers: extraversion, agreeableness, conscientiousness, neuroticism, and openness/intellect.

One of the Big 5 personality traits; a person who scores high on this trait is characterized by assertiveneness, energy, enthusiasm, and outgoingness.

One of the big 5 personality traits; a person who scored high on this trait is characterized by trust, generosity, kindness, and sympathy.

One of the big five personality traits; a person who scores high on this trait is characterized by curiosity, imagination, insight, originality, and wide interests.

One of the big five personality traits; a person who scores high on this trait is characterized by efficiency, organization, planfulness, and reliability.

One of the big five personality traits; a person who scores high on this trait is characterized by anxiety, self pity, tenseness, and emtional instability.

Bandura's term for an individual's belief in his or her ability to accomplish tasks.

Bandura's model in which personal, behavioral, and environmental factors interact to influence personality development.

The stages of personality development suggested by Freud, consisting of the oral, anal, phallic, latency, and genital stages.

The pattern of events that Feud believed occur between ages 3 and 5, when the child experiences a sexual desire for the parent of the opposite sex; the resulting fear of possible reprisal from the parent of the same sex is resolved when the child identifies with that parent.

The stages of personality development suggested by Erikson, involving tasks centered on trust, autonomy, initiative, industry, identity, intimacy, generativity, and ego integrity.