FREE PSYCHOLOGY AND STUDY GAMES ABOUT PSYCH

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FREE PSYCHOLOGY AND STUDY GAMES ABOUT PSYCH

UNIT 10 VOCAB EXAM QUESTIONS

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Question 1: self-esteem

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one's feelings of high or low self-worth

Question 2: humanistic theories

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view personality with a focus on the potential for healthy personal growth

Question 3: false consensus effect

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the tendency to overestimate the extent to which others share our beliefs and our behaviors

Question 4: trait

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a characteristic pattern of behavior or a disposition to feel and act, as assessed by self-report inventories and peer reports

Question 5: oedipus complex

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according to Freud, a boy's sexual desires toward his mother and feelings of hatred and jealously and hatred for the rival father

Question 6: empirically derived test

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a test developed by testing a pool of items and then selecting those that discriminate between groups

Question 7: Thematic Apperception Test (TAT)

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a projective test in which people express their inner feelings and interests through the stories they make up about ambiguous scenes

Question 8: Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI)

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the most widely researched and clinically used of all personality tests, developed to identify emotional disorders, this test is not used for many other screening purposes

Question 9: spotlight effect

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overestimating others' noticing and evaluating our appearance, performance, and blunders

Question 10: id

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a reservoir of unconscious psychic energy that, according to Freud, strives to satisfy

Question 11: social-cognitive perspective

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views behavior as influenced by the interaction between people's traits and their social context

Question 12: self-serving bias

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a readiness to perceive oneself favorably

Question 13: individualism

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giving priority to one's own goals over group goals and defining one's identity in terms of personal attributes rather than group identifications

Question 14: psychodynamic theories

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modern-day approaches that view personality with a focus on the unconscious and the importance of childhood experiences

Question 15: self-concept

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all our thoughts and feelings about ourselves, in answer to the question, "Who am I?"

Question 16: fixation

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according to Freud, a lingering focus of pleasure-seeing energies at an earlier psychosexual stage, in which conflicts were unresolved

Question 17: narcissism

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excessive self-love and self-absorption

Question 18: collective unconscious

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Carl Jung's concept of a shared, inherited reservoir of memory traces from our species history

Question 19: unconscious

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according to Freud, a reservoir of mostly unacceptable thoughts, wishes, feelings, and memories

Question 20: psychosexual stages

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the childhood stages of development (oral, anal, phallic, latency, genital) during which, according to Freud, the id's pleasure-seeking energies focus on distinct erogenous zones

Question 21: behavioral approach

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in personality theory, this perspective focuses on the effects of learning on our personality development

Question 22: ego

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the largely conscious, "executive" part of personality that, according to Freud, mediates among the demands of the id, superego, and reality

Question 23: self-actualization

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according to Maslow, one of the ultimate psychological needs that arises after basic physical and psychological needs are met and self-esteem is achieved; the motivation to fulfill one's potential

Question 24: repression

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in psychoanalytic theory, the basic defense mechanism that banishes from consciousness anxiety-arousing thoughts, feelings, and memories

Question 25: reciprocal determinism

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the interacting influences of behavior, internal cognition, and environment

Question 26: rorschach inkblot test

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the most widely used projective test a set if 10 inkblots, designed by Hermann Rorschach; seeks to identify people's inner feelings by analyzing their interpretations of the blots

Question 27: terror-management theory

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a theory of death- related anxiety; explores people's emotional and behavioral responses to reminders of their impending death