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evaluation apprehension

concern about social approval or disapproval

Personality

patterns of thought, feeling, and behaviors that individuals exhibit in different situations

defense mechanisms

Unconscious mental processes used to protect from unpleasant emotions

repression

thoughts are too anxiety provoking to acknowledge are blocked from conscious awareness.
- Push trauma and unwanted feelings back into subconscious, don't have ready access to thoughts → if we did it would be overwhelming and threatening

projection

psychoanalytic defense mechanism by which people disguise their own threatening impulses by attributing them to others

rationalization

defense mechanism that offers self-justifying explanations in place of the real, more threatening, unconscious reasons for one's actions

displacement

psychoanalytic defense mechanism that shifts sexual or aggressive impulses toward a more acceptable or less threatening object or person, as when redirecting anger toward a safer outlet

denial

psychoanalytic defense mechanism by which people refuse to believe or even to perceive painful realities.

psychological determinism

The view that all thoughts, feelings, and behavior, no matter how mundane or insignificant, ultimately have an underlying psychological cause

projective tests

personality assessments that present ambiguous visual stimuli to the client and ask the client to respond with whatever comes to mind

rorschach inkblot tests

individual views a set of inkblots and tells what each inkblot resembles

empathy

the ability to understand and share the feelings of another

unconditional postive regard

according to Rogers, an attitude of total acceptance toward another person

openness

willingness to try new things and be open to new experiences

conscientiousness

A personality dimension that describes someone who is responsible, dependable, persistent, and organized

extraversion

A personality dimension describing someone who is sociable, gregarious, and assertive

agreeableness

how trusting, good-natured, cooperative, and soft-hearted one is

neuroticism

nervous, worrying

psychological disorders

any pattern of behavior that causes people significant distress, causes them to harm others, or harms their ability to function in daily life

DSM-5

the American Psychiatric Association's Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fifth Edition; a widely used system for classifying psychological disorders.

labeling theory

the idea that deviance and conformity result not so much from what people do as from how others respond to those actions

carl rogers

Humanisic; self-concept and unconditional positive regard drive personality

unconditional postive regard

a caring, accepting, nonjudgmental attitude, which Carl Rogers believed would help clients to develop self-awareness and self-acceptance

trait

group of correlated habits