PSY 205 Study Guide - Quiz Guide: Social Cognitive Theory, Collective Unconscious, Illusory Correlation

• School: Syracuse University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 205
• Professor: Shannon Houck

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Exam 3 study guide: chapters 11, 12, 14, 15. While this study guide provides an overview of many topics you will see on the exam, it is not a comprehensive list of everything that is on the exam. You are responsible for the information both in your text in addition to the material covered in lecture. However, this guide should greatly help focus your studying. An individual"s unique set of consistent behavioral traits. Factor analysis - correlations among many variables are analyzes to identify closely related clusters of variables. Freud"s psychoanalytic theory attempts to explain personality by focusing on the influence of early childhood experiences, unconscious conflicts, and sexual urges: structure of personality. Be able to identify the defense mechanism being used if given an example: psychosexual stages developmental periods with a characteristic sexual focus that leave their mark on adult personality. Fixation a failure to move forward from one stage to another as expected.