Defence?
To shift sexual or aggressive impulses toward a more acceptable or less threatening object or person.
Displacement
An attitude of grace that shows others that we love and value them despite their failings.
Define: Defence Mechanism
The ego's protective methods of reducing anxiety by unconsciously distorting reality
Look at this picture, what test does it show?
Thematic Apperception Test (TAT)
Define: Personality Inventory
Longer questionnaires covering a wide range of feelings and behaviours that assess several traits at once.
To refuse to believe
Denial
Define: Self Actualization
Achieving one's full potential, including creative activities.
Define: Collective Unconscious
Carl Jung's concept of shared, inherited reservoir of shared images or archetypes
What test is this?
Rorschach inkblot test
What empirically researched and clinically used test identifies emotional disorders and is is also used to assess people's personality traits?
The Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI)
Switching unacceptable impulses into their opposites
Reaction Formation
What are the the 3 conditions does a person need to thrive according to humanistic theory?
Acceptance, Genuineness, and Empathy
What is this?
Free association
Define: Projective Test
A personality test, such as the TAT or Rorschach that provides ambiguous images designed to trigger projection of on'es inner dynamics and explore precocious and unconscious mind.
Which factor is this describing? One end of the spectrum is ruthless, suspicious, uncooperative and the other end is soft hearted, trusting, and helpful.
Agreeableness
Disguising one's own threatening impulses by attributing them to others
Projection
What are three parts that impact self concept?
Ideal self, self-image, and true self
The partly conscious part of personality that represents internalized ideals and provides standards for judgements and future aspirations.
The Superego
What statistical procedure identifies clusters of test items that tap basic components of a trait?
Factor Analysis
What are the 4 factors that make up the Factor Analysis?
Extraversion -- introversion
and
Emotional Stability -- instability
A banished thought, feelings or memory
Repression
What are the 5 parts of Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs?
Starting from the bottom:
Physiological- food, water, warmth, rest
Safety- security
Belonging and love needs- intimate relationships and friends
Esteem needs- feeling like you can accomplish things
Self actualization- achieving one's full potential
A theory of death-related anxiety; exploring people's emotional and behavioural responses to reminders of their mortality.
The terror-management theory
What are the Big 5 factors?
Openness, conscientiousness, extraversion, agreeableness, and neuroticism
What is the person-situation controversy and what did the results suggest?
Person situation controversy= Genuine personality traits that persist over time and across situations
Results= With age, personality traits become more stable