Freud
What is the superego?
Our moral compass
What is projection?
person confronted with anxiety disguises their unacceptable urges or behaviors by attributing them to other people
What is identity achievement?
High in commitment and high in exploration
Which of the Big Five factors increase with age?
Agreeableness
What is shaping?
rewarding successive approximations toward a target behavior
What is the id?
Our base insticts
What is displacement?
person transfers inappropriate urges or behaviors toward a more acceptable or less threatening target
What is identity foreclosure?
Commited, but no exploration
Which of the Big Five factors relates to being imaginative?
Openness
When are we most likely to replicate someone's behavior?
When they're similar to us and competent
What is the ego?
The compromise of the superego and the id
Describe internal locus of control
belief that we control our own outcomes
What is identity moretorium?
No commitment, but has explored
What does OCEAN stand for?
Openness, conscientiousness, extroversion, agreeableness, and neuroticism
What is the biological basis for observational learning?
Mirror neurons
What is regression?
A coping skill where you go back to what comforted you as a child
Describe external locus of control
belief that our outcomes are outside of our control;
What is identity diffusion?
No exploration or comitment
Which personality trait increased with young adults?
neuroticism
What are the four primary processes involved in observational learning?
attention, retention, replication, and motivation
What characteristic would make conservation difficult?
Reversibility and Centration
What is a projective test?
personality assessment in which a person responds to ambiguous stimuli, revealing hidden feelings, impulses, and desires
What was the marshmellow experiment and what were the findings?
Placed a child in a room by themselves, told them they could eat the marshmellow no or have two if they waited. If they waited, they had lower self-regulation throughout their lives
What is self-monitoring?
Changing your behavior based on the social situation
Describe the bobo doll study
Two groups of kids, one with an adult modeling aggressive behavior, one without. If the kid watched the adult be aggressive, they were aggressive