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term Detailed definition and/or explanation that reflects deep and source
personal understanding

Personality

Humanistic

Psychoanalytic
perspective

Free association

Psychoanalysis

Unconscious

Id

Ego

Superego

Psychosexual
stages

Oedipus complex

Identification

Fixation

Defense
mechanisms
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Repression

Regression

Reaction formation

Projection

Rationalization

Displacement

Alfred Adler v Freud

Karen Horney v
Freud

Carl Jung v Freud

Projective tests

Thematic
Apperception Test

Rorschach inkblot
test

Modern Research v
Freud (Modern
research)

Modern Research v
Freud (Repression)

Modern Research v
Freud (modern
Unconscious mind)

Terror-management
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theory

Modern Research v
Freud (Scientific
theory)

Humanistic
Perspective

Self-Actualization

Person-Centered
perspective

Unconditioned
Positive regard

Self-concept

Humanistic
psychologists
method for
personality
assessment

Criticisms of
humanism

Trait perspective v
psychoanalytic
perspective

Traits

Factor analysis

Biology and
personality

Personality
inventories

Minnesota
Multiphasic
Personality Inventory
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(MMPI)

Empirically derived
test

Big five personality

traits

Use and function of

the big five

Person-situation
controversy

Expressive style

Social-cognitive
perspective

Reciprocal
determinism

Biopsychosocial
approach

Personal control

External locus of
control

Internal locus of
control

Learned
helplessness

Performance and
optimistic/pessimisti
c attribution styles

Positive psychology
v. humanistic
psychology
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Benefit of social
cognitive research

Criticism of social
cognitive research

Psychologies focus
on the self

Spotlight effect

Self-esteem

Low self esteem and

personal problems

Discrimination and
self esteem

Self-serving bias

Defensive self-
esteem

Secure self-esteem