PSYC 101 Study Guide - Final Guide: Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory, Reticular Formation, Big Five Personality Traits
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Personality: the unique and relatively stable ways in which people think, feel, and behave. Value judgments made about a person"s moral and ethical behavior temperament: the enduring characteristics with which each person is born, based on one"s biology, genetic/parental influences and forms the basis upon which one"s personality is built. Freud"s theory of personality (id, ego, superego; levels of consciousness) Preconscious mind: information is available but not currently conscious (just beneath the surface of awareness) Conscious mind: aware of immediate surroundings and perceptions. Where thoughts and feelings that are not easily or voluntarily brought into consciousness are kept. Most primitive part of personality,present at birth in infants. Moral center, learns the rules, customs, expectations of society. Defense mechanisms (be able to recognize the main ones discussed in lecture) Denial: the person refuses to acknowledge or recognize a threatening situation. Unacceptable impulses or feelings are seen as originating with someone else, usually the target of the impulses or feelings.
