Psychology 1000 Exam test
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Personality - ANS✅✅An individual's characteristic pattern of thinking, feeling an acting.
Psychodynamic Theories - ANS✅✅Focuses on the unconscious & the importance of childhood
experiences
Free Association - ANS✅✅The Freudian technique in which the person is encouraged to say
whatever comes to mind as a means of exploring the unconscious.
Psychoanalysis - ANS✅✅Thoughts & actions are attributed to unconscious motives & conflicts
(Freud)
Unconscious - ANS✅✅The reservoir of mostly unacceptable thoughts, wishes, feelings and
memories.
Id - ANS✅✅The unconscious system of personality, consisting of basic sexual and aggressive drive.
PLEASURE PRINCIPLE
Ego - ANS✅✅The largely conscious, executive division of the personality that attempts to mediate
among the demands of the id, the superego and reality.
REALITY PRINCIPLE
Superego - ANS✅✅Represents internalized ideals and provides standards for judgement and for
future aspirations.
MORAL COMPASS
Psychosexual Stages - ANS✅✅The childhood stages of development where the id's pleasure
seeking energies are focused on different erogenous zones.
Oedipus Complex - ANS✅✅A boy's sexual desires toward his mother & feelings of jealousy &
hatred for the rival father.
,Identification - ANS✅✅The process in which children incorporate their parents' values into their
developing superegos.
(Provides gender identity)
Fixation - ANS✅✅A lingering focus of pleasure-seeking energies from unresolved conflicts in an
earlier psychosexual stage.
Repression - ANS✅✅Banishment of anxiety-arousing thoughts, feelings and memories from
consciousness.
Collective Unconscious - ANS✅✅Jung's concept of an inherited unconscious shared by all people
and deriving from our species history.
Projective Tests - ANS✅✅Like the Rorschach, present ambiguous stimuli onto which people
supposedly project their inner feelings.
Rorschach Inkblot Test - ANS✅✅The most widely used projective test consisting of 10 inkblots that
people are asked to interpret; it seeks to identify people's inner feelings by analyzing their
interpretations.
Terror-Management Theory - ANS✅✅Focuses on people's emotional and behavioral responses to
reminders of their mortality.
Humanistic Theories - ANS✅✅Focus on our potential for healthy personal growth.
Self-Actualization - ANS✅✅Describes the process of fulfilling one's potential and becoming
spontaneous, loving, creative and self-accepting. Becomes active only after the more basic physical
and psychological needs have been met.
Unconditional Positive Regard - ANS✅✅an attitude of total acceptance towards a person.
Self-Concept - ANS✅✅Refers to one person's personal awareness of "who I am." In the humanistic
perspective, a central piece of a person's personality; life happiness is significantly affected by
whether it is positive or negative.
,Trait - ANS✅✅A characteristic pattern of behavior or disposition to feel and act.
Personality Inventories - ANS✅✅Associated with the trait perspective, are questionares used to
assess personality traits.
Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory MMPI - ANS✅✅The most widely researched and
clinically used personality inventory.
Empirically Derived Test - ANS✅✅A test developed by testing many items to see which best
distinguish between groups of interest.
Social-Cognitive Perspective - ANS✅✅behavior is the result of interactions between people's traits
and their social context.
Reciprocal Determinism - ANS✅✅According to social-cognitive perspective personality is shaped
through this, or the interacting influences of behavior, internal cognition and environment.
Personal Control - ANS✅✅Refers to the extent to which people perceive control over their
environment.
External Locus of Control - ANS✅✅The perception that your fate is controlled by forces not under
your personal control.
Internal Locus of Control - ANS✅✅The perception that you control your own destiny to a great
extent.
Self-Control - ANS✅✅The ability to control impulses and delay gratification.
Learned Helplessness - ANS✅✅Passive resignation and perceived lack of control that a person or
animal develops from repeated exposure to inescapable aversive events.
Positive Psychology - ANS✅✅Focusing on positive emotions, positive character traits, and enabling
institutions; the specific study of optimal human functioning.
, Self - ANS✅✅In contemporary psychology the organizer of our thoughts, feelings and actions.
Spotlight Effect - ANS✅✅The tendency of people to overestimate the extent to which other
people are noticing and evaluating their appearance, performance and blunders.
Self-Esteem - ANS✅✅Refers to an individuals feelings of self-worth.
Self-Serving Bias - ANS✅✅The tendency to perceive oneself favorable.
Narcissism - ANS✅✅Excessive self-love and self-absorption.
Psychological Disorder - ANS✅✅Deviant, distressful and dysfunctional behavior.
ADHD - ANS✅✅A psychological disorder characterized by the appearance by age 7 of one ore
more of three symptoms: extreme inattention, hyperactivity, and impulsivity.
Medical Model - ANS✅✅Holds that psychological disorders are illnesses that can be diagnosed,
treated, and in most cases cured often through treatment in a psychiatric hospital.
DSM-IV-TR - ANS✅✅A short name for the American Psychiatric Association's Diagnostic and
Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders which provides a widely used system of classifying
psychological disorders.
Anxiety Disorders - ANS✅✅involve distressing, persistent anxiety or maladaptive behaviors that
reduce anxiety.
Generalized Anxiety Disorder - ANS✅✅The person is continually tense, apprehensive and in a state
of autonomic nervous system arousal for no apparent reason.
Panic Disorder - ANS✅✅An episode of intense dread accompanied by chest pain, dizziness, oor
choking. It is essentially an escalation of an anxiety associated with generalized anxiety disorder.
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Personality - ANS✅✅An individual's characteristic pattern of thinking, feeling an acting.
Psychodynamic Theories - ANS✅✅Focuses on the unconscious & the importance of childhood
experiences
Free Association - ANS✅✅The Freudian technique in which the person is encouraged to say
whatever comes to mind as a means of exploring the unconscious.
Psychoanalysis - ANS✅✅Thoughts & actions are attributed to unconscious motives & conflicts
(Freud)
Unconscious - ANS✅✅The reservoir of mostly unacceptable thoughts, wishes, feelings and
memories.
Id - ANS✅✅The unconscious system of personality, consisting of basic sexual and aggressive drive.
PLEASURE PRINCIPLE
Ego - ANS✅✅The largely conscious, executive division of the personality that attempts to mediate
among the demands of the id, the superego and reality.
REALITY PRINCIPLE
Superego - ANS✅✅Represents internalized ideals and provides standards for judgement and for
future aspirations.
MORAL COMPASS
Psychosexual Stages - ANS✅✅The childhood stages of development where the id's pleasure
seeking energies are focused on different erogenous zones.
Oedipus Complex - ANS✅✅A boy's sexual desires toward his mother & feelings of jealousy &
hatred for the rival father.
,Identification - ANS✅✅The process in which children incorporate their parents' values into their
developing superegos.
(Provides gender identity)
Fixation - ANS✅✅A lingering focus of pleasure-seeking energies from unresolved conflicts in an
earlier psychosexual stage.
Repression - ANS✅✅Banishment of anxiety-arousing thoughts, feelings and memories from
consciousness.
Collective Unconscious - ANS✅✅Jung's concept of an inherited unconscious shared by all people
and deriving from our species history.
Projective Tests - ANS✅✅Like the Rorschach, present ambiguous stimuli onto which people
supposedly project their inner feelings.
Rorschach Inkblot Test - ANS✅✅The most widely used projective test consisting of 10 inkblots that
people are asked to interpret; it seeks to identify people's inner feelings by analyzing their
interpretations.
Terror-Management Theory - ANS✅✅Focuses on people's emotional and behavioral responses to
reminders of their mortality.
Humanistic Theories - ANS✅✅Focus on our potential for healthy personal growth.
Self-Actualization - ANS✅✅Describes the process of fulfilling one's potential and becoming
spontaneous, loving, creative and self-accepting. Becomes active only after the more basic physical
and psychological needs have been met.
Unconditional Positive Regard - ANS✅✅an attitude of total acceptance towards a person.
Self-Concept - ANS✅✅Refers to one person's personal awareness of "who I am." In the humanistic
perspective, a central piece of a person's personality; life happiness is significantly affected by
whether it is positive or negative.
,Trait - ANS✅✅A characteristic pattern of behavior or disposition to feel and act.
Personality Inventories - ANS✅✅Associated with the trait perspective, are questionares used to
assess personality traits.
Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory MMPI - ANS✅✅The most widely researched and
clinically used personality inventory.
Empirically Derived Test - ANS✅✅A test developed by testing many items to see which best
distinguish between groups of interest.
Social-Cognitive Perspective - ANS✅✅behavior is the result of interactions between people's traits
and their social context.
Reciprocal Determinism - ANS✅✅According to social-cognitive perspective personality is shaped
through this, or the interacting influences of behavior, internal cognition and environment.
Personal Control - ANS✅✅Refers to the extent to which people perceive control over their
environment.
External Locus of Control - ANS✅✅The perception that your fate is controlled by forces not under
your personal control.
Internal Locus of Control - ANS✅✅The perception that you control your own destiny to a great
extent.
Self-Control - ANS✅✅The ability to control impulses and delay gratification.
Learned Helplessness - ANS✅✅Passive resignation and perceived lack of control that a person or
animal develops from repeated exposure to inescapable aversive events.
Positive Psychology - ANS✅✅Focusing on positive emotions, positive character traits, and enabling
institutions; the specific study of optimal human functioning.
, Self - ANS✅✅In contemporary psychology the organizer of our thoughts, feelings and actions.
Spotlight Effect - ANS✅✅The tendency of people to overestimate the extent to which other
people are noticing and evaluating their appearance, performance and blunders.
Self-Esteem - ANS✅✅Refers to an individuals feelings of self-worth.
Self-Serving Bias - ANS✅✅The tendency to perceive oneself favorable.
Narcissism - ANS✅✅Excessive self-love and self-absorption.
Psychological Disorder - ANS✅✅Deviant, distressful and dysfunctional behavior.
ADHD - ANS✅✅A psychological disorder characterized by the appearance by age 7 of one ore
more of three symptoms: extreme inattention, hyperactivity, and impulsivity.
Medical Model - ANS✅✅Holds that psychological disorders are illnesses that can be diagnosed,
treated, and in most cases cured often through treatment in a psychiatric hospital.
DSM-IV-TR - ANS✅✅A short name for the American Psychiatric Association's Diagnostic and
Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders which provides a widely used system of classifying
psychological disorders.
Anxiety Disorders - ANS✅✅involve distressing, persistent anxiety or maladaptive behaviors that
reduce anxiety.
Generalized Anxiety Disorder - ANS✅✅The person is continually tense, apprehensive and in a state
of autonomic nervous system arousal for no apparent reason.
Panic Disorder - ANS✅✅An episode of intense dread accompanied by chest pain, dizziness, oor
choking. It is essentially an escalation of an anxiety associated with generalized anxiety disorder.
