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Personality
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The unique & relatively stable ways in which ppl think, feel and behave
-is consistent over time
-no 2 ppl have the same personality
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Character
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Value judgements of a person's moral and ethical behavior
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Temperament
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The enduring characteristics w/ which each person is born
-(innate tendancies-buliding blocks 4 personality)
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4 Perspectives
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1. psychoanalytic
2. behaviorist (including social cognitive theory)
3. humanist
4. trait perspectives
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Psychoanalytic
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Study of human functioning and behavior
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Behaviorist
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Humanist
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Emphasizes growth potential
being true to ones self
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Trait perspectives
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Define personality by stable behavior patterns
allport
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Frued
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Founder of the psychoanalytic movement in psychology
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Europe during Victorian Age
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1. Men would father kids w/ wife & then turn to a mistress
2. Women esp upper classes were not supposed to have sexual urges
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Preconscious mind
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(Superego)
level of mind in which info is available but not currently conscious
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Conscious mind
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(ego)
level of the mind that is aware of immediate surroundings and perceptions
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Unconscious Mind
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(id) thoughts, feelings, & memories are kept that are not easily brought into consciousness; revealed in dreams and freudian slips of the mind
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Id
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Part of the personality present at birth; unconscious; (compulsive)
-basic instincts, devil on shoulder, pleasure principle
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Ego
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Conscious; develops our of need to deal with reality; rational & logical
reality principle
(mediates)
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