Psychology of Personality Exam 1
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Psychology Personality - ✔✔The scientific study of the psychological forces that make
people uniquely themselves
Public Self - ✔✔The personality or traits you wish to convey to the rest of the world;
how you want to be seen
Private Self - ✔✔The personality or traits you keep within; the side of you, you may
deem unfit for the rest of society to view
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
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,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
psychic determinism - ✔✔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
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
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, Preconscious - ✔✔The thoughts of your brain that you are not currently aware of, but
can be brought into conscious awareness with the correct stimuli/arousal
Unconscious - ✔✔Majority of your brains thoughts; involves those thoughts you are not
conscious of, and are not easily brought into consciousness
Repressed Content - ✔✔Part of your unconscious where painful events are stored, very
DEEP in your unconscious (basically forget that this area exists)
Defense Mechanisms - ✔✔the brain's censor system; that distorts reality, and prevents
unconscious thoughts from surfacing in an unacceptable way ( rather alternate routes
are formed). Part of censorship
Denial - ✔✔A type of defense mechanism in which unconsciously motivated negation
occurs. People convince themselves that something did not happen and truly believe it.
Children deal with trauma in this way
Repression - ✔✔A type of defense mechanism in which you suppress negative
emotions or painful moments so far into your unconscious, that you no longer
remember the event, unless extensive therapy is done.
Unacceptable Impulse - ✔✔Similar to parapraxis; think socially wrong, but as humans
we still exhibit them.
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Psychology Personality - ✔✔The scientific study of the psychological forces that make
people uniquely themselves
Public Self - ✔✔The personality or traits you wish to convey to the rest of the world;
how you want to be seen
Private Self - ✔✔The personality or traits you keep within; the side of you, you may
deem unfit for the rest of society to view
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
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,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
psychic determinism - ✔✔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
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
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, Preconscious - ✔✔The thoughts of your brain that you are not currently aware of, but
can be brought into conscious awareness with the correct stimuli/arousal
Unconscious - ✔✔Majority of your brains thoughts; involves those thoughts you are not
conscious of, and are not easily brought into consciousness
Repressed Content - ✔✔Part of your unconscious where painful events are stored, very
DEEP in your unconscious (basically forget that this area exists)
Defense Mechanisms - ✔✔the brain's censor system; that distorts reality, and prevents
unconscious thoughts from surfacing in an unacceptable way ( rather alternate routes
are formed). Part of censorship
Denial - ✔✔A type of defense mechanism in which unconsciously motivated negation
occurs. People convince themselves that something did not happen and truly believe it.
Children deal with trauma in this way
Repression - ✔✔A type of defense mechanism in which you suppress negative
emotions or painful moments so far into your unconscious, that you no longer
remember the event, unless extensive therapy is done.
Unacceptable Impulse - ✔✔Similar to parapraxis; think socially wrong, but as humans
we still exhibit them.
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