INTRODUCTION
A perspective in personality theory that seeks to answer the question: “How much of what I do is unconscious or done without awareness?”
What is the PSYCHODYNAMIC-MOTIVATIONAL perspective?
A Big Five personality trait that describes emotional instability.
What is NEUROTICISM?
A hormone that has been demonstrated to be a biological contributor to antisocial personality disorder.
What is TESTOSTERONE?
Freud's defense mechanism in which an individual (unconsciously) banishes painful thoughts from consciousness.
What is REPRESSION?
According to research by Ainsworth, the type of attachment style in which babies happily explore their surroundings when with their mothers, and eventually grow up to report greater family support, trust and warmth.
What is SECURE attachment?
A technique in which one individual or thing is studied in depth in hopes of revealing universal principles.
What is a CASE STUDY?
The Big Five personality trait that is positively correlated with longevity.
What is CONSCIENTIOUSNESS?
A person’s characteristic emotional reactivity and intensity - that is visible in early childhood.
What is TEMPERAMENT?
According to Freud, the part of the mind that operates on the REALITY principle.
What is the EGO?
The area of the brain associated with fear and aggression.
What is the AMYGDALA?
A method in research that involves observing and recording behavior in naturally occurring situations without trying to manipulate and control the situation.
What is NATURALISTIC OBSERVATION?
Situations in which the environment provides clear guides for our behavior (e.g., church).
What are STRONG situations?
The term used to describe the complete set of an organism’s genes.
What is a GENOTYPE?
In “free association” in a psychoanalytic session, when a patient suddenly says something like, “I really can’t think of anything right now.”
What is RESISTANCE?
Carl Jung’s concept of a repository of ideas, feelings, and symbols shared by all humans and passed genetically from one generation to another.
What is the COLLECTIVE UNCONSCIOUS?
A type of independent variable research design in which there are different participants in each condition (group).
What is a BETWEEN-SUBJECTS independent variable?
A type of person who is less interested in how they appear to others, so their behavior is much more consistent across situations (i.e., they march to their own drum).
What is a LOW SELF-MONITOR?
The tendency of children and youth to seek out friends with similar interests and attitudes.
What is the SELECTION EFFECT?
The defense mechanism at play in the scenario: Gwen has a huge crush on Thomas, but she never admits it. Instead, she tells all who will listen that Thomas is really “into her.”
What is PROJECTION?
According to Erik Erikson, the last stage of psychosocial development, during which a person can look back at their life with either a sense of satisfaction and completeness or a sense of regret and bitterness.
What is INTEGRITY vs. DESPAIR?
In experimental research, confidence that only the manipulated variable could have produced the results.
What is INTERNAL VALIDITY?
The tendency to attribute behaviors to a person’s internal qualities (i.e., dispositions), while neglecting/underestimating situational influences.
What is the FUNDAMENTAL ATTRIBUTION ERROR?
According to William H. Sheldon (1942), a type of person who is considered plump, soft and round and correspondingly has a relaxed, sociable personality.
What is an ENDOMORPH?
According to Freud, a personality disorder that arises from a partial fixation at the PHALLIC stage of psychosexual development.
What is NARCISSISTIC personality disorder?
According to Melanie Klein, the tendency to categorize early interpersonal experiences as being all good or all bad.
What is SPLITTING?