Personality Theories Exam 1
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Operational Definitions - ✔✔Indicate how a characteristic is measured. Helpful in
replication of studies
Latent Content - ✔✔What the symbols in our dreams actually represent
Transference - ✔✔the patient develops positive or negative feelings for their therapist,
because they see their therapist as an important figure in their past life
Example: Tim's wife passed away a year ago, and he begins to fall in love with his grief
counselor whom reminds him of his late wife
Obsessional Neurosis - ✔✔What Freud diagnosed the Rat Man with
Personality - ✔✔Psychological construct and complex abstract concept, which includes
a persons genetic background and learning history and the interaction between the two
factors
Childhood - ✔✔Freud questioned the Rat Man the most about this
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, Common Sense - ✔✔This is not reliable or accurate instead we rely on the scientific
orientation which leads us to accurate information
Alfred Adler and Carl Jung - ✔✔These two psychologists disagreed with Freud on the
importance of sexuality
Positive Trait - ✔✔Indicates that when 1 variable increases so does the other
Negative Trait - ✔✔Indicates that when 1 variable increases the other decreases
Catharis - ✔✔An emotional release during therapy usually after talking about personal
problems or emotional subjects
Correlational Model - ✔✔Much of personality research is this
Rat Man's Importance - ✔✔It helped support Freud's theory of childhood sexuality
Independent variable - ✔✔Those that are being manipulated accurately by the
researcher
Dependent variable - ✔✔results of the influences of independent variable
Phallic Stage - ✔✔4th stage, character comes from fixation, exhibitionistic or voyeruistic
tendencies
Life Instinct - ✔✔Eros, Motivates us towards achievement of gratifying goals in life
Libido - ✔✔The energy of the Life Instinct
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Operational Definitions - ✔✔Indicate how a characteristic is measured. Helpful in
replication of studies
Latent Content - ✔✔What the symbols in our dreams actually represent
Transference - ✔✔the patient develops positive or negative feelings for their therapist,
because they see their therapist as an important figure in their past life
Example: Tim's wife passed away a year ago, and he begins to fall in love with his grief
counselor whom reminds him of his late wife
Obsessional Neurosis - ✔✔What Freud diagnosed the Rat Man with
Personality - ✔✔Psychological construct and complex abstract concept, which includes
a persons genetic background and learning history and the interaction between the two
factors
Childhood - ✔✔Freud questioned the Rat Man the most about this
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, Common Sense - ✔✔This is not reliable or accurate instead we rely on the scientific
orientation which leads us to accurate information
Alfred Adler and Carl Jung - ✔✔These two psychologists disagreed with Freud on the
importance of sexuality
Positive Trait - ✔✔Indicates that when 1 variable increases so does the other
Negative Trait - ✔✔Indicates that when 1 variable increases the other decreases
Catharis - ✔✔An emotional release during therapy usually after talking about personal
problems or emotional subjects
Correlational Model - ✔✔Much of personality research is this
Rat Man's Importance - ✔✔It helped support Freud's theory of childhood sexuality
Independent variable - ✔✔Those that are being manipulated accurately by the
researcher
Dependent variable - ✔✔results of the influences of independent variable
Phallic Stage - ✔✔4th stage, character comes from fixation, exhibitionistic or voyeruistic
tendencies
Life Instinct - ✔✔Eros, Motivates us towards achievement of gratifying goals in life
Libido - ✔✔The energy of the Life Instinct
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