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Personality
An individual’s unique set of consistent behavioral trait
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(Consistency)
Explains the stability in a persons behavior over time and across situations
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(distinctiveness)
Explains behavioral differences among people reacting to the same situation
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Personality trait
is a durable disposition to behave in a particular way in a variety of situations. Could be honest, dependable, bad, or violent. Etc
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factor analysis
In factor analysis, correlations among many variables are analyzed to identify closely related clusters of variables. Approaches see some traits as more basic than others.
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The 5 factor model of personality traits
-Extraversion. People who score high in extraversion are characterized as outgoing, sociable, upbeat, friendly, assertive, and gregarious. They also have a more positive outlook on life and are motivated to pursue social contact, intimacy, and interdependence (Wilt & Revelle, 2017).
-Neuroticism. People who score high in neuroticism tend to be anxious, hostile, self-conscious, insecure, and vulnerable. They also tend to exhibit more impulsiveness and emotional instability than others (Tackett & Lahey, 2017).
-Openness to experience. Openness is associated with curiosity, flexibility, imaginativeness, intellectual pursuits, interests in new ideas, and unconventional attitudes. People who are high in openness also tend to be tolerant of ambiguity (Sutin, 2017).
-Agreeableness. Those who score high in agreeableness tend to be warm, sympathetic, trusting, compassionate, cooperative, modest, and straightforward. Agreeableness is also correlated with empathy and helping behavior (Graziano & Tobin, 2017).
-Conscientiousness. Conscientious people tend to be diligent, well-organized, punctual, and dependable. Conscientiousness is associated with strong self-discipline and the ability to regulate oneself effectively (Jackson & Roberts, 2017)
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Freuds view on personality structure
Psychodymanic theories descended from the work of freud the focused on unconscious mental forces
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Psychoanalysis
required lenghty verbal interation with patients, during which freud probed deeply into their lifes
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Psychosexual stages
Developmental periods with a charcteristic secual affect adult personality
Oral stage: age 0-1, erotic focus on mouth
Anal stage: age 2, erotic focus on anus
Phallic stage: Age 3-5, erotic focus on genitals
Latency and genital stages: age 5-end of puberty,
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Psychanaytic theory
focusing on the influence of early childhood experiences, unconscious conflicts, and sexual urges
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why were contemporaries uncomfortable.
Contemporaries were uncomfortable with Freud’s theroris, including the ideas individuals are not masters of their own minds and destiny
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Structure of personality divided into three parts
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The id
The id is the primitive, instinctive component of personality that operates according to the pleasure principle.
The id operates according to the pleasure principle, which demands immediate gratification of its urges.
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ego
The ego is the decision-making component of personality that operates according to the reality principle.

The ego is guided by the reality principle, which seeks to delay gratification of the id’s urges until appropriate outlets and situations can be found. I
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the superego
the superego is the moral component of personality that incorporates social standards about what represents right and wrong.
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Defense mechanisms
are largely unconscious reactions that protect a person from unpleasant emotions, such as anxiety and guilt.
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rationalization,
which is creating false but plausible excuses to justify unacceptable behavior.
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Repression
is keeping distressing thoughts and feelings buried in the unconscious.
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Projection
is attributing one’s own thoughts, feelings, or motives to another.
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Displacement
is diverting emotional feelings (usually anger) from their original source to a substitute target.
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Reaction formation
is behaving in a way that’s exactly the opposite of one’s true feelings.
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Regression
Regression is a reversion to immature patterns of behavior.
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Identification
Identification is bolstering self-esteem by forming an imaginary or real alliance with some person or group.
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Psychodynamic theory proposed by Jung,s
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collective unconscious
The collective unconscious is a storehouse of latent memory traces inherited from people’s ancestral past. According to Jung, each person shares the collective unconscious with the entire human race
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Each person has conscious and unconscious levels of awareness
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archetypes
are emotionally charged images and thought forms that have universal meaning.
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Maslow key insight
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Maslow proposed
Maslow proposed that human motives are organized into a hierarchy of needs—a systematic arrangement of needs, according to priority, in which basic needs must be met before less basic needs are aroused.
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Top of pyramid to bottom
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Need for self-actualization-
realization of potential
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Aesthic needs
order and beauty
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Cognitive needs
knowledge and understanding
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Esteem needs
achievement and gaining recognition
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Belongingness and love needs
affiliation and acceptance
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Safety and security needs
long-term survival and stability
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Physiological needs
Hunger, thirst, and so forth
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Progression
if lower needs are satisfied
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Regression
if lower means need to be satisfied
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Evolutionarny explanations for why big 5 traits importnat
Evolutionary theorists assert that personality has a biological basis because natural selection has favored certain traits over the course of human history

For example, David Buss (1991, 1995, 1997) argues that the Big Five personality traits stand out as important dimensions of personality across a variety of cultures because those traits have had significant adaptive implications.

Daniel nettle big 5 traits are products of evolution that were adaptive in ancestral environments

Analyses may help explain the origins og individual variations on the big 5 traits
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Narcissism
is a personality trait marked by an inflated sense of importance, a need for attention and admiration, a sense of entitlement, and a tendency to exploit others.

Caused by low self esteem which requires constant reassurance
Low ability to receive criticism
Believe themselves to be superior to others
Insatiable need for recognition
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Grandiose narcissism
is characterized by arrogance, extraversion, immodesty and aggressiveness
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Vulnerable narcissism
is characterized by hidden feelings of inferiority introversion, neutricism, and a need for recognition
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Terror managment theory
Aimed to explain need for self-esteem
Self-preservation instints and inevitability of death create anxiety
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Mortality salience
is the degree to which subjects mortality is prominent in their minds

Increased mortality salience leads people to work harder at defending cultural worldview/
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How researches found cross cultural references and disparities in personality
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national character
national character—the idea that various cultures have widely recognized prototype personalities

in Asian cultures, such as Japan and China, socialization practices foster a more interdependent view of the self that emphasizes the fundamental connectedness of people to each other

Basic dimensions of personality trait structure may be nearly universal

American culture fosters an independent view of the self

Unique strengths and achievements become the basis for their sense of self worth

McCrae et al. (2005) found that Brazilians scored relatively high in neuroticism, Australians in extraversion, Germans in openness to experience, Czechs in agreeableness, and Malaysians in conscientiousness, to give but a handful of example
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Three unifying themes
Cultural heritage
Theorectical Diversity
Sociohistorical context
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Projective tests
ask participants to respond to vague, ambiguous stimuli in ways that can
reveal the subjects’ needs, feelings, and personality traits.
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Rorschach tests
Rorschach tests respond to vague, ambiguous stimuli such as inkblots
Thematic Apperception Test (tat) a series of pictures of simple scenes is present to individual
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Thematic Apperception Test (tat)
a series of pictures of simple scenes is present to individuals
Who tell stories about said scenes
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The “projective hypothesis”
is that ambiguous materials can serve as a blank screen onto which people project their characteristic concerns, conflicts, and desires
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Strenghts
no transparent respondents, indirect approach may make them especially sensitive to the unconscious

Unfortunately, the scientific evidence on projective measures is unimpressive
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hindsight bias—
the tendency to mold one’s interpretation of the past to fit how events actually turned out.

Tends to promote single-cause thinking and overconfidence in decision analysis

With hindsight, events that are difficult to predict are considered inevitable and foreseeable
Can influence everyday analysis of personality
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problems for scioentific theories of personality
once researchers know an outcome, they can fashion some plausible explanation for it
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Medical Model of Psychological Illness
The medical model proposes that it is useful to think of abnormal behavior as a disease.
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Etiology
refers to the apparent causation and developmental history of an illness.
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prognosis
is a forecast about the probable course of an illness.
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Criteria for abnormal Behavior:
Deviance: Violation of Societal Norms
Maladaptive Behavior: Drug abuse, self harm, etc
Personal Distress: Emotional/Psychological suffering
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Generalized Anxiety Disorder
Chronic High level anxiety not caused by a specific threat.
Constant worry over problems and minor things, sometimes physical symptoms like Dizziness, Fatigue, Trembling, Muscle tension
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Panic Disorder
A panic disorder is characterized by recurrent attacks of overwhelming anxiety that usually occur suddenly and unexpectedly
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Major Depressive Disorder:
In major depressive disorder, people show persistent feelings of sadness and despair and a loss of interest in previous sources of pleasure.

Punctuated by periods of normal activity.
Marked by Anhedonia: Diminished ability to have pleasure
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Bipolar Disorder
Periods of manicism and depression
Manic: marked by Euphoria, high self esteem, Lack of need for sleep, hyperactivity. Can lead to impulsive behavior
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Autism Spectrum Disorder
is a neurodevelopmental disorder characterized by deficits in social interaction and communication and restricted, repetitive interests and activities

Inability to perceive or send social cues, hyperfocused interest, impaired verbal communication, Sensory sensitivity

Could be caused by abnormal early brain growth around 2 years of age
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Personality disorders
class of disorders marked by extreme, inflexible personality traits that cause subjective distress or impaired social and occupational functioning.

Lowered life expectancy by 18-19 years
Extreme manifestations of personality traits
Caused by mix of environment and genetic predispositions
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Insight Therapies
a talk therapy, goal is to pursue insight regarding nature of clients difficulties and to find possible soulutions
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Behavior Therapies
based on principle of learning. Make effort to alter problematic responses (phobias) & maladaptive habits(drug use)
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Biomedical Therapies:
Therapy to involve interventions into a personal biological functioning. (drug therapy, shock therapy).
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Identify the various types of mental health professionals involved in the provision of
Therapy:
Clinical Psychologist, Counseling psychologist, Psychiatrist, Clinical social
Worker, Psychiatric nurse, Counseler, Marriage and family therapist
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Understand the role of the therapeutic climate and therapeutic process in client-centered
Therapy:
the process of therapy is not as important as the theraputic climate as you need a
Warm supportive climate that creates a safe environment. To create this you need 3 things.
1. Genuineness, 2. Unconditional positive regard, 3. Accurate empathy. The therapeutic
process is also important and needs the client and therapist to work together. The therapist
will mainly clarify while the client gets to the solution mostly by themselves. Overall
therapeutic climate and process are important to provide the client everything they need to find
Their own answers.
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Group therapy
the simultaneous treatment of several clients in a group.
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Family therapy
treats the family unit as a while and focuses on family dynamics and
Communication
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Insight therapies
are better than no therapy and are effective early on, however, start to fall off
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electroconvulsive therapy
is a biomedical treatment where electrical shocks are used to
produce a cortical seizure accompanied by convulsions. When optimal techniques are used
it is very effective at curing major depression but replases are expected. There are a few risks
When taking ECT, but most side effects dissapear after a few months.
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Analyze the barriers that lead to underutilization of mental health services by ethnic
minorities and possible solutions
Reasons such as ethic races preferring to have a therapist of their own ethnicity and
not speaking the languages of several races. One possible solution would be therapists
enhancing their cultural competence(develop to reflect an understanding of how cultural factors
shape individuals views and health behaviors).
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Assess the effects of the deinstitutionalization movement:
Mixed reviews. Positive part is that people avoided disruptive and unnecessary hospitalization
negatively, patients with chronic psychological disorders had nowhere to go when they were
released.
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two unifying themes highlighted in this chapter.
Cultural Heritage, Theoretical Diversity
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Understand how placebo effects can complicate the evaluation of therapy.
if they use a placebo effect during therapy, it can complicate the evaluation because if the client
beings to think one thing will happen, they will more than likely think it is happening even
if it is not the desired result.
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Eating Disorders
severe disturbances in eating behavior characterized by preoccupation with weight concerns and unhealthy efforts to control weight.
Most prevalent in westernized countries
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Anorexia nervosa
severe disturbances in eating behavior characterized by preoccupation with weight concerns and unhealthy efforts to control weight.

Caused by disturbed body image which causes happiness with weight loss and fear with weight gain
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Restrictive type/ binge purge
Restrictive type limits amount of food intake, Binge/purge type vomits/uses laxatives/excessively exercises after meals
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Bulimia nervosa
excessive/extreme binge eating followed by purging such as vomiting/laxatives/excessive exercise
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Binge eating disorder:
periods of binge eating not followed by purgative action
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Chapter Themes:
Multifactorial Causation: All disorders are caused by multiple factors
Heredity and Environment: Both of these factors are in complex interplay in causing disorders
Sociocultural Context and cultural heritage: The definitions of deviance and abnormality are culturally influenced
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Insanity:
legal status indicating that a person cannot be held responsible for his or her actions because of mental illness.

M’naghten rule: insanity exists when a mental disorder makes a person unable to distinguish right from wrong.

Severe disturbance causing inability to understand right from wrong
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Competence:
Able to distinguish right from wrong and are able to be held responsible for actions and stand trial