psyc exam part 2

the ability to perceive, understand and use emotions

developed questions that would predict childrens future progress

• standardization
• reliability
• validity

an individual characteristics pattern of thinking, feeling, and acting

proposed that childhood sexuality and unconscuscious motivation influence personalty

our inner capacities for growth and self fulfillment

• childhood stages of development
• oral
• anal
• phallic
• latency
• genital

boys seek genital stimulation and they develope both unconscious sexual desire for their mother and jealousy and hatred for thier father, whom they consider rival

boys sexual desire for his mother

leads a person faced with anxiety to retreat to a more infantile psycosexual stage

• repression
• regression
• reaction formation
• projection
• rationalization
• displacment

defense mechanism that banishes anety-arousing feelings and memories from cosciousness

defense mechanism by with the ego unconsciously switches unacceptable impulses into thier opposite

people diguise thier own threatening impulses by attributing them to others

offers self justifying explanations in place of the real more threatening reasons

shifts sexual or agresive impulses toward a more acceptable or less threatening object or person

most widely used projective test

Conscientiousness

Agreeable

Neuroticism

Openess

Extraversion

views behavior as influenced by the interaction between persons

interacting influences between personailty and enviromental factors

_{the perception that chance or outside forces beyond ones personal control determine ones fate}

the perception that one controlss one's own fate

a readiness to perceive oneself favorably