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Traits
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Relatively enduring predispositions that influence our behavior across many situations
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Nomothetic approach
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Approach to personality that focuses on identifying general laws that govern the behavior of all individuals
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Idiographic approach
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Approach to personality that focuses on identifying the unique configuration of characteristics and life history experiences within a person
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Molecular genetic studies
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Investigations that allow researchers to pinpoint genes associated with specific personality traits
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Somatogenic
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Physiologically caused
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Catharsis
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Feeling of relief following a dramatic outpouring of emotion
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Psychogenic
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Psychologically caused
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Psychic determinism
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The assumption that all psychological events have a cause
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Id
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Reservoir of our most primitive impulses, including sex and aggression
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Pleasure principle
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Tendency of the id to strive for immediate gratification
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Ego
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Psyche's executive and principal decision maker
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Reality principle
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Tendency of the ego to postpone gratification until it can find an appropriate outlet
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Superego
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Our sense of morality
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Defense mechanisms
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Unconscious maneuvers intended to minimize anxiety
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Reaction-formation
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Transformation of an anxiety-provoking emotion into its opposite
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