Psychology of Personality Exam 1
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Psychology Personality - ✔✔The scientific study of the psychological forces that make
people uniquely themselves
anti wish - ✔✔when you have a dream that is the opposite of what you want and this
dream keeps you in check (for example, "I had a dream about stealing. I will never do
that!")
bereavement exclusion - ✔✔A stipulation in which people who have experienced the
loss of a significant loved one would not be given the diagnosis of major depression
within the first 2 months of the loss. This exclusion was removed from the DSM-5.
paradigm - ✔✔a model; an example
Public Self - ✔✔The personality or traits you wish to convey to the rest of the world;
how you want to be seen
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,the awareness of the self as seen by the world
Private Self - ✔✔The personality or traits you keep within; the side of you, you may
deem unfit for the rest of society to view
the tendency to introspect and reflect on thoughts/feelings
Creative Illusionism - ✔✔Observing a particular behaviors or traits, and proposing a
theory from these observations, often self-reflective. Theorists then look to validate
these theories by observing them in others (consensual validation)
Components of Adequate Theories - ✔✔"Reality", "Normal" & Pathological Processes,
Change Process & Development. Serve as a "road map" to the human psyche
Personality/Character - ✔✔includes (but not limited to): behavior, thoughts, feelings
a reliable set of characteristics that dictate how you interact with the world
nomothetic - ✔✔Seeking to formulate laws; can describe a wide range of people.
Aristole had this type of theory
idiographic - ✔✔pertaining to an individual case; describes a single person. May be
enough to refute a common law. Galileo has this type of theory
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, psychic determinism (FREUD) - ✔✔Events have observable and non-observable
characteristics; everything happens with a reason, known or unknown, especially
related to psychological events
The idea that the mind is an active system
Every action is determined by unconscious mental processes!
parapraxis - ✔✔Everyday psychosis; something irrational that has some unconscious
reasoning and is unknown unless further explored; reveals repressed motives (eg. slip
of a tongue)
Free association - ✔✔Method of psychoanalysis in which an individual says everything
that comes to mind, and the therapist is out of view. Helps uncover the unconscious
meanings of things.
Topographical Theory - ✔✔One of Freud's Theory involving the different mental
processes including: Conscious, Preconscious, Censor System (Defense Mechanisms),
Unconscious & Repressed
Conscious - ✔✔The thoughts of your brain that you are currently aware of
Unconscious - ✔✔Majority of your brains thoughts; involves those thoughts you are not
conscious of, and are not easily brought into consciousness
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Psychology Personality - ✔✔The scientific study of the psychological forces that make
people uniquely themselves
anti wish - ✔✔when you have a dream that is the opposite of what you want and this
dream keeps you in check (for example, "I had a dream about stealing. I will never do
that!")
bereavement exclusion - ✔✔A stipulation in which people who have experienced the
loss of a significant loved one would not be given the diagnosis of major depression
within the first 2 months of the loss. This exclusion was removed from the DSM-5.
paradigm - ✔✔a model; an example
Public Self - ✔✔The personality or traits you wish to convey to the rest of the world;
how you want to be seen
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,the awareness of the self as seen by the world
Private Self - ✔✔The personality or traits you keep within; the side of you, you may
deem unfit for the rest of society to view
the tendency to introspect and reflect on thoughts/feelings
Creative Illusionism - ✔✔Observing a particular behaviors or traits, and proposing a
theory from these observations, often self-reflective. Theorists then look to validate
these theories by observing them in others (consensual validation)
Components of Adequate Theories - ✔✔"Reality", "Normal" & Pathological Processes,
Change Process & Development. Serve as a "road map" to the human psyche
Personality/Character - ✔✔includes (but not limited to): behavior, thoughts, feelings
a reliable set of characteristics that dictate how you interact with the world
nomothetic - ✔✔Seeking to formulate laws; can describe a wide range of people.
Aristole had this type of theory
idiographic - ✔✔pertaining to an individual case; describes a single person. May be
enough to refute a common law. Galileo has this type of theory
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, psychic determinism (FREUD) - ✔✔Events have observable and non-observable
characteristics; everything happens with a reason, known or unknown, especially
related to psychological events
The idea that the mind is an active system
Every action is determined by unconscious mental processes!
parapraxis - ✔✔Everyday psychosis; something irrational that has some unconscious
reasoning and is unknown unless further explored; reveals repressed motives (eg. slip
of a tongue)
Free association - ✔✔Method of psychoanalysis in which an individual says everything
that comes to mind, and the therapist is out of view. Helps uncover the unconscious
meanings of things.
Topographical Theory - ✔✔One of Freud's Theory involving the different mental
processes including: Conscious, Preconscious, Censor System (Defense Mechanisms),
Unconscious & Repressed
Conscious - ✔✔The thoughts of your brain that you are currently aware of
Unconscious - ✔✔Majority of your brains thoughts; involves those thoughts you are not
conscious of, and are not easily brought into consciousness
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