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freuds two factors
- 1. childhood
- 2. conflict btwn conscious and subconscious
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ego
- conscious mind; wants to fufill the id
- "i can"
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superego
- ethics and morals
- "i should"
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defense mechanism
general techniques that people use to defend agains anxiety by distorting reality
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repression
unconsciously forgeting
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regresion
reverting to childish tendencies
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rationalization
put the blame elsewhere
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reaction formation
make feelings the opposite of what you actually feel
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projection
explaining your feelings as someone elses
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displacement
directing your emotions to a different source other than the actual cause
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psychoanalytic theory
freuds theory of personality development
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neofreudians
- people are positive; its not all sexual/aggresion
- the conscious is just as important as sub
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Carl Jung
famous neofreudian who deviated from being under freud
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the personal unconscious
Jung's term analogous to Freud's subconscious
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the collective unconscious
a shared, collected reservoir of human memories and crap
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archetype
inherited universal themese; the collecteve unconscious is made of many of these
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maslow
- a humanist
- self actualization
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Carl Rogers
- believed that there are two parts to each person; organism and self
- called his patients clients
- a humanist
- genuiness, acceptance and empathy
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Rollo May
sees people as good and evil
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humanistic approach
people are good and strive to be the best
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unconditional positive regard
an attitude of total acceptance towards others
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behavioralist theory
focused on predicting behavior; action oriented
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BF Skinner
- behavioralist
- 'pragmatic'
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alfred adler
- neofreudian
- inferiority complex
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albert bandura
- behavioralist
- social-cognitive perspective -personality influenced by three factors
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reciprocal determinism
the interaction between behavior, internal personal factors, and environmental factors
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trait theorist
- every trait applies to everyone
- descriptions can be quantified
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homothetic approach
- study people in large groups to find general laws of personality
- Allport
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idiographic apprach
- study individuals in detail
- Allport
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Eysenck
- trait theorist
- three dimensions of personality; stability, extraversion vs introversion, psychoticism
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stability
the extent of control one has over their own feelings
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psychoticism
the extent of ones self image; self-centered vs not
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robust five
extraversion, agreeableness, conscientiousness, openess, stability
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external locus
forces outside our control determine fate
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internal locus
we control our own destiny
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tyranny of choice
when given too much freedom we regret and second guess
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