Psychodynamic
The part of consciousness that balances two perspectives and wants
Ego
A pyramid that prioritizes physiological and psychological needs before a person can reach self-actualization
Heirarchy of Needs
The Big Five Factors
OCEAN (openness, conscientiousness, extroversion, agreeableness, neuroticism)
Cultures that place an emphasis on the group's needs instead of personal achievement
Collectivist
What research method is used? Jessica has an extremely high IQ. She broke a world record for number of words memorized. Researchers follow her around and have her take multiple tests to understand what is different with her brain.
Case study
Rorschach inkblot test
The motivation to fufill one's potential
Self-actualization
Carly is very talkative and loves hanging out with her friends. She displays high levels of ....
Extraversion
Your feelings of high or low self worth
self-esteem
Cross sectional or Longitudinal? Researchers compare the intelligence scores of the same group of people every 5 years.
Longitudinal
Steve gets yelled at by his boss, he goes home and yells at his son. Steve is using the defense mechanism of ...
The striving for meaning and purpose in life
Self-transcendence
Taylor is very helpful, positive, and loving towards other people. She displays high levels of....
Agreeableness
Our sense of competence and effectiveness
Self-efficacy
What is the mean of the following scores? 5,5,3,1,1
3
Lisa is jealous of Amy. Lisa says, "Sarah is jealous of Amy. She doesn't like her." Lisa is displaying what defense mechanism?
Projection
Caring for and loving someone no matter what mistakes they have made; promotes acceptance
Unconditional postive regard
Sam experiences high stress during exam week. He is displaying high levels of ....
Neuroticism
Readiness to perceive one's self as favorably as possible. For example, a student saying "I didn't pass because she made the test hard."
Self-serving bias
Researchers gather the intelligence scores of multiple high school students. In the distribution, the mean, median, and mode are all the same. Are the results positively skewed? negatively skewed? normally distributed?
Normally distributed
Instead of taking your anger out on your sibling, you go to the gym and punch a punching bag. This is using the defense mechanism of ....
Sublimation
The perspective that all people are good, and are capable of self-actualization
Person-centered perspective
Questionnare that gauges a person's beliefs and behaviors, used to assess traits
Personality inventory
Jake gets stressed at parties. Because of this, he doesn't talk to people. When people see Jake not talk to them, they assume he doesn't want to be there; therefore, they don't approach him. Because no one talks to him, Jake becomes more stressed. This is an example of...
Reciprocal determinism
For the freshman class, the standard deviation score is 1. For the senior class, the standard deviation score is 4. When something has the standard deviation of 1, it means the scores deviate (slightly, strongly) from the mean.
Slightly