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Provide ambiguous stimuli designed to trigger projection of one's inner dynamics
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 Projective Test |
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Defense mechanism - disguise one's own threatening impulses by attributing them to others
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Projection
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Study of optimal human functioning; aims to discover and promote strengths and virtues
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Positive Psychology
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Questionnaire on which people respond to items designed to gauge a wide range of feelings and behaviors
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Personality Inventory
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An individuals characteristic pattern of thinking, feeling, and behaving
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Personality
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Our sense of controlling our environment rather than feeling helpless
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Personal Control
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According to Freud; a boy's sexual attraction to his mother and jealous towards his father
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Oedipus Complex
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Most widely researched and clinically used for personality tests
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MMPI (Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory)
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A hoplessness and passive resignations an animal or human learns when unable to avoid repeated aversive events
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Learned Helplessness
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The precetion that one controls one's own fate
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Internal Locus of Control
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Process by which children incorporate their parents values into their superegos
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Identification
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According to Freud; contains an reservoir of unconcious psychihc energy striving to satisfy basic sexual and aggressive drives
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ID
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Psychoanalysis Technique in which the person relaxes and says whatever comes to mind
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Free Association
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According to Freud; lingering energies of pleasure seeking focus in an earlier psychosexual stage
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Fixation
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Perception that chance or forces outside one's control determine one's fate
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External Locus Of Control
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