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Personality
a person's unique long term pattern of thinking, emotions,
and behaviors; the consistency of who you are, have been
and will become
TERM 2
Character
DEFINITION 2
personal characteristics that have been judged or evaluated;
desirable or undesirable qualities
TERM 3
personality traits
DEFINITION 3
stable qualities that a person shows in most situations
TERM 4
personality traits
DEFINITION 4
people who have several traits in common
TERM 5
Carl Jung
DEFINITION 5
proposed that we are one or two personality types introvert
and extrovert
introvert
shy, reserves, self centered person whose attention is
focused inward
TERM 7
extrovert
DEFINITION 7
bold outgoing person whose attention is directed outward
TERM 8
self concept
DEFINITION 8
your ideas perceptions, and feelings about who you are
TERM 9
self esteem
DEFINITION 9
a positive or negative evaluation of oneself
TERM 10
personality theory
DEFINITION 10
system of concepts, assumption, ideas and principles
proposed to explain personality
individual traits
define a person's unique personal qualities
TERM 17
cardinal traits
DEFINITION 17
so basic that all of a person's activities can be traced back to
the trait
TERM 18
central traits
DEFINITION 18
core qualities of a personality
TERM 19
secondary traits
DEFINITION 19
inconsistent or superficial aspects of a person
TERM 20
surface traits
DEFINITION 20
features that make up the visible features of personality
source traits
underlying characteristics of a personality
TERM 22
factor analysis
DEFINITION 22
a statistical technique used to correlate multiple
measurements and identifying general underlying factors
TERM 23
trait profile
DEFINITION 23
graph of the scores on several personality traits
TERM 24
extroversion
DEFINITION 24
degree to which a person is introverted or extroverted
TERM 25
agreeableness
DEFINITION 25
how friendly nurturing and caring a person is, as opposed to
cold indifferent self centered or spiteful
Id
the primitive part of personalty that remains unconscious,
supplies energy, and demands pleasureself serving and
irrational
TERM 32
Ego
DEFINITION 32
The executive part of personality that directs rational
behaviorExecutive; directs id energiesoperates via reality
principle; delay action until it is practical appropriate
TERM 33
superego
DEFINITION 33
a judge or censor for thoughts and actionscomes from our
parents or caregivers; guilt comes from this
TERM 34
Freudian Personality Dynamics
DEFINITION 34
Ego is always caught in the middle of battles between the
id's desires for immediate gratification and the superego's
desires for moral behavior Neurotic and anxiety
TERM 35
Neurotic
anxiety
DEFINITION 35
caused by id impulses that the ego can barely control
moral
anxiety
comes from threats of punishment from the superego
