Psychodynamic Theory
Repression, rationalization, projection, denial.
What are examples of Freud's defense mechanisms?
The focus of the Humanistic Theory
What is the goodness of people?
This theory of personality looks to define personality through stable and lasting behavior patterns and conscious motivations.
What is Trait Personality Theory?
We can place the locus of control at these 2 places.
What is internal vs external locus of control?
Another name for the Rorschach Test
What is the ink blot test?
This component of psychodynamic theory that adheres to the pleasure principle and prioritizes wish fulfillment.
What is the ID?
This theory has physiological needs at it's base and self-actualization at its peak
What is Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs?
Believed that you need to look at motives in the present, not the past to describe behavior.
Who is Gordon Allport?
The belief that an individual's behavior influences and is influenced by both the social world and personal characteristics.
What is reciprocal determinism?
Freud's belief that in Dream Analysis a therapist could determine personality by looking at or comparing what actually showed up in dreams vs. the symbolism.
What is manifest vs latent?
This component of psychodynamic theory is the psychological component and contributes the reality principle and secondary process thinking
What is the ego
Humanistic theory stresses our capacity in this area
What is capacity for human growth?
This personality characteristic (or dimension) relates to how outgoing/enthusiastic we are vs how quiet/stoical.
What is introversion/extroversion?
4 areas stressed by the social cognitive perspective
What are conscious awareness, beliefs, expectations and goals?
A method created by Henry Murray and Christiana Morgan to reveal the subconscious dynamics of a person't personality.
What is the Thematic Apperception Test (TAT)?
This component of psychodynamic theory contains the conscience & ego-ideal and contributes moral imperatives.
What is the superego?
Believed that were are all inherently good as long as we are exposed to nurturing environments.
Who is Carl Jung?
This trait characteristic relates to being empathetic/unempathetic
What is agreeableness?
The four questions asked in the TAT test.
What is happening now? What led up to it? What are the characters thinking/feeling? How will the story end?
This defense mechanism involves pushing things down into the unconscious
What is repression?
Carl Jung believed that for a person to "grow" they needed an environment consisting of 3 things.
What is genuineness, acceptance, and empathy?
the big 5 personality traits acronym.
What is OCEAN (openness to experience, conscientiousness, extroversion/introversion, agreeableness, neuroticism)
These are the 3 points of the social cognitive triangle model
What are: personal factors, behavior, environmental factors?
Personality test based on preferences
What is the Myers-Briggs Test?
This occurs when the ego gets stressed out about "losing control" of the id and super-ego
What is anxiety
A mix of thoughts and feelings that answer the fundamental question...WHO AM I?
What is self-concept?
When it came to personality and behaviors, Allport was about describing, while Freud was about this...
A group of shared images or archetypes universal to all humans which explains why certain cultures believe what they believe and do what they do.
What is collective unconscious?
Two ways that the MMPI is used
What is to differentiate between psychiatric diagnoses and to examine the credibility and personality of job candidates.