Freudian Slippers
The decision-making component of personality that seeks to delay gratification of urges until appropriate
What is the ego?
Every time you walk past your crush at school, you flick their ear and laugh
What is reaction formation?
Divided personality into 3 components: the id, the ego, and the superego
Who is Sigmund Freud?
The second-most basic needs in Maslow's hierarchy
What are safety/security needs?
A procedure used to identify closely related clusters of personality traits
What is factor analysis?
Freud might say that a compulsive smoker developed a fixation at which psychosexual stage?
What is the oral stage?
After failing three exams in one day, you go home to blow off steam by playing Grand Theft Auto
What is displacement?
Emphasized self-efficacy as a key factor governing behavior
Who is Albert Bandura?
Rogers' term to describe beliefs about your own personality such as "I'm hardworking" or "I'm pretty"
What is self-concept?
Someone who prefers to try local restaurants rather than commercial chains when in a new city would likely score highly in this Big Five trait
What is openness (to experience)?
Material just beneath the surface of awareness that can easily be retrieved can be found here
What is the preconscious?
A student who doesn't trust Mr. Heidegger instead believes Mr. Heidegger doesn't trust him
What is projection?
Used archetypes to interpret unconscious messages in his patients' dreams
Who is Carl Jung?
The concept Maslow described when he said "what a man can be, he must be"
What is the need for self-actualization?
The research method that has provided impressive support for the idea that genetics largely shape a person's personality
What are (identical) twin studies?
The id's compass; demands immediate gratification of urges
What is the pleasure principle?
A woman who recently went through a breakup channels her emotions into a home improvement project
What is sublimation?
Proposed that personality develops because inherited traits make people more/less readily conditioned
Who is Hans Eysenck?
Rogers believed this helps develop a congruent self-concept
What is unconditional love/positive regard?
High scores in this Big 5 trait have a negative correlation with income (especially among men)
What is agreeableness?
What Adler identified as the primary source of human motivation (and, as a result, personality)
What is a striving for superiority?
Repression is thought to represent a failure in which process of memory?
What is retrieval?
Argued that situational factors (not only personal characteristics) help determine a person's behavior
Who is Walter Mischel?