Psychoanalysis
What is a reservoir of mostly unacceptable thoughts, wishes, feelings, and memories?
The Unconscious
What is the center of personality, the organizer of our thoughts, feelings, and actions?
Self
What is the test that breaks personality down into five parts?
Big Five Factors
What is the tendency to maintain a balanced or constant internal state?
Homeostasis
Waht is the tendency of behavior to influence our own and others thoughts, feelings, and actions?
Behavior Feedback Effect
What is a reservoir of unconscious psychic energy that strives to satisfy basic sexual and aggressive drives?
Id
What is a view of behaviors influenced by the interaction between people's traits and their social context?
Social-Cognitive Perspective
What is a questionnaire on which people respond to items designed to gauge a wide range of feelings and behaviors?
Personality Inventory
What is the law that performance increases with arousal only up to a point, beyond which performance decreases?
Yerkes-Dodson Law
What is the theory that argues that bodily arousal and emotion occur at the same time?
Cannon-Bard Theory
Free Association
What are the interacting influences of behavior, internal cognition, and environment?
Reciprocal Determinism
What is a test created by selecting from a pool of items those that discriminate between groups?
Empirically Devised Test
What is the theory that psychological needs create an aroused states that motivates an organism to satisfy the need?
Drive-Reduction Theory
What is the theory that proposes that bodily arousal precedes emotion?
James-Lange Theory
What is the partly conscious executive part of personality that mediates among the demand of the ID, the Superego, and reality?
Ego
What perspective focuses on the effects of learning on our personality development?
Behavioral Approach
What is a characteristic pattern of behavior or a disposition to feel and act in certain ways?
Traits
What is the theory that we feel motivated to satisfy our own needs for competence, autonomy, and relatedness?
Self-Determination Theory
What is the theory that states that how we appraise our experiences matter?
Schachter-Singer Theory
What is the partly conscious part of personality that represents internalized ideals and provides standard for judgement and future aspirations?
Superego
What is the effect of overestimating others noticing and evaluating our appearance, performance, and blunders?
Spotlight Effect
What is the most widely researched and clinically used personality test?
Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory
What is a desire for significant accomplishment, for mastery of skills or ideas, for control, and for attaining a high standard?
Achievement Motivation
Facial Feedback Effect