Theories of Personality - Brooks
15 questions about theories of personality
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- This is a theory that explains behavior and personality in terms of unconscious energy dynamics within the individual.
- This is a distinctive and relatively stable pattern of behavior, thoughts, motives, and emotions that characterizes an individual.
- In psychoanalysis, the part of personality that represents conscience, morality, and social standards.
- In psychoanalysis, a conflict occurring in the phallic stage, in which a child desires the parent of the other sex and views the same-sex parent as a rival.
- A characteristic of an individual, describing a habitual way of behaving, thinking, or feeling.
- A statistical method for identifying clusters of measures or scores that are highly correlated and assumed to assess the same underlying trait or abililty.
- A physiological disposition to respond to the environment in certain ways, which in present in infancy and in many nonhuman species and is assumed to be innate.
- A statistical estimate of how much of the variability in a given trait can be explained by genetic differences among individuals within a group.
- In social-cognitive learning theories, the two-way interaction between aspects of the environment and aspects of the individual in the shaping of personality traits.
- Unique aspects of a person's environment and experience that are not shared with family members.
- Cultures in which the self is more likely to be regarded as autonomous, with individual goals and wishes prized above duty and relations with others.
- Cultures in which the self is more likely to be regarded as embedded in relationships, with harmony with one's group prized above individual goals and wishes.
- A psychological approach that emphasizes personal growth, resilience, and the achievement of human potential.
- Love or support given to another person with no conditions attached, according to Carl Rogers.
- A philosophical approach that emphasizes the inevitable dilemmas and challenges of human existence.
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