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| Differences in personality from one person to another |
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| Intrapersonal Functioning |
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| Psychological processes that take place within the person |
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| A set of orienting assumptions about reality that provides guidelines for what kinds of ideas to use to create theories |
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| The quality of requiring few assumptions; simplicity |
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| A dynamic organization, inside the person of psychophysical systems that create the person's characteristics patterns of behavior, thoughts, and feelings |
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| A summary statement, a principle or set of principles about a class of events |
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| An in-depth study of one individual |
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| A relationship such that variation in one dimension produces variation in another |
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| An association large enough to have some practical importance |
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| A relationship in which two variables or dimensions covary when measured repeatedly |
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| a numeric index of the degree of correlation between two variables |
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| The variable measures as the outcome of an experiment; the effect in a cause-effect relation |
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| Statistics used to describe or characterize some group |
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| the holding constant of variables that are not being manipulated |
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| The method in which one variable is manipulated to test for casual influence on another variable |
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| Experimental personality research |
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| a study involving a personality factor and an experimental factor |
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| the degree to which a conclusion applies to many people |
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| The variable manipulated in an experiement, tested as the cause in a cause-effect relation |
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| Statistics used to judge whether a relationship exsists between variables |
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| A finding in which the effect of one predictor variable differs depending on the level of another predictor variable |
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| A finding in which the effect of one predictor variable is independent of other variables |
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| a study with two (or more) predictor variables |
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| The study of the whole person, as opposed to studying only one aspect of the person |
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| An association large enough to have practical importance |
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| the process of putting people randomly into groups of experiment so their characteristics balance out across groups |
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| the likelihood of an obtained effect occuring when there is no true effect |
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| the possibility that an unmeasured variable caused variations in both of two correlated variables |
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| A dimension along which two or more variations exist |
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| The second stage of development, centered around issues in toilet training |
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| The investment of energy in suppressing an impulse or image |
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| Biologically programmed cell death |
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| A boy's fear (from the phallic stage) that his father will preceive him as a rival and castrate him |
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| the release of emotional tension |
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| the investment of psychic energy in a desired activity or image |
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| the part of the superego that punishes violations of moral standards |
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| self-destructive instincts, often turned outward as aggression |
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| the shifting of an impulse from its original target to a different target |
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| the rational part of the personality that deals pragmatically with realtiy |
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| binding psychic energy in an ego-guided activity |
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| the part of the superego that represents perfection and rewards for good behavior |
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| the ability of the ego to function despite the competing demands of the id, superego, and reality |
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| a sexually responsive area of the body |
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| the condition of being partly stuck in a stage of psychosexual development |
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| The final stage of development, characterized by mature and mutual sexual involvement with another |
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| the original, primitive component of personality; the source of all energy |
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| to develop feelings of similarity to and connectedness with another |
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| absorbing the values of one's parents into one's superego |
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| the period in which the crises of the phallic stage give way to a temporary calm |
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| the collective energy of life instincts |
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| Survival and Sexual instincts |
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| the mix of desire for the opposite-sex parent and fear of or hatred for the same-sex parent |
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| the first stage of psychosexual development, in which oral needs create a crisis over weaning |
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| A girl's envy of males, from feelings of having been castrated |
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| the third stage of development, in which a crisis occurs over sexual desire for the opposite sex parent |
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| the idea that impulses should be gratified immediately |
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| the region of the mind that corresponds to ordinary memory |
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| the id process that creates an unconscious image of a desired object |
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| the idea that actions must take into account the constraints of external reality |
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| the ego's checking to to see whether plans will work before the are put into action |
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| preventing an idea or impulse from becoming conscious |
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| the ego process of rationally seeking an object to satisfy a desire |
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| freud's model of three components of personality |
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| Altering an unacceptable id impulse to an activity that's more socially acceptable |
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| the component of personality that seeks moral perfection |
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| freud's model of three regions, or areas, of the mind |
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| the region of the mind that's not accessible to consciousness |
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| the creation of an unconscious image of a desired object |
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| a feeling warning the ego that something bad is about to happen |
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| preoccupations in one's current waking life |
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| an ego-protective strategy to hide threats from yourself and thereby reduce anxiety |
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| a refusal to believe that some real condition exists |
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| the shifting of an impulse from its original target to a different one |
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| processes that distort latent dream content and transform it into manifest content |
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| a therapy procedure of saying without hesitation whatever comes to mind |
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| linking oneself symbolically with someone who has a desired quality that is missing from the self |
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| an emotional re-experiencing of earlier confilicts in one's life that occurs during therapy |
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| the process of thinking about something clinically and without emotion |
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| the underlying sources of symbolic dream images |
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| the images that make up the dream experience as it is recalled |
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| a process in which an unacceptable element of latent content is expressed manifestly as its opposite |
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| the fear of behaving in conflict with the superego's moral code |
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| the that your id impulses will get out of control and get you into trouble |
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| a slip of the tongue, behavior, or memory |
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| ascribing a threatening urge or quality in yourself to someone else |
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| an assessment in which you project yourself to someone else |
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| finding a plausible but incorrect explanation for an unacceptable action or event |
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| doing the opposite of what your impulses are |
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| the fear of danger in the world |
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| a return to a mode of coping from an earlier developmental stage |
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| the process of keeping an idea or impulse in the unconscious |
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| an attempt to avoid becoming conscious of threatening material in therapy |
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| a projective test that uses inkblots as ambiguous material in therapy |
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| the alteration of an impulse into a socially acceptable act |
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| the alteration of an id impluse into a socially acceptable act |
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| the displacement onto you therapist of feelings that are tied to an object of conflict |
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| Aspects of the world that people have an inherited tendency to notice or perceive |
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| memories everyone has from human and even prehuman ancestors |
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| the motive to be effective or adept in dealing with the environment |
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| The need to have an impact on the environment |
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| the extent to which a person modifies or inhibits impulse expression |
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| the neoanalytic theories that give ego functions central importance |
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| the capacity to modify one's usual level of ego control to adapt to new situations |
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| the realization that one is deficient in some way, minor or major |
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| the continuance of an act even after its initial purpose no longer exists |
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| feelings of inferiority bad enough to suggest an inability to solve life's problems |
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| a person's pattern of inferiority feelings and manner of striving for superiority |
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| a lifestyle that isn't effective in adapting or attaining superiority |
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| a need to think about and impose meaningful structure on experiences |
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| a weakness in an area of the body, making one vulnerable to illness there |
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| the idea that the ego exists independently from the id from birth on |
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| the idea that life consists of polarities that oppose and balance each other |
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| the idea that an ego function can become satisfying in its own right |
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| Exaggerated striving to excel to compensate for deep inferiority feelings |
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| an emotional connection to someone else |
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| a sense of insecurity, a feeling of being abandoned and isolated |
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| the overall sense of self that emerges from transactions with social reality |
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| the quality that becomes part of one's personality through successful management of a crisis |
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| the idea that an internal plan for future development is present at the beginning of life |
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| the adoption of a specific identity |
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| A time of intense exploration of alternative ways of viewing oneself |
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| the condition of whether an identity crisis has occurred and whether an identity has been attained |
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| the idea that developmental processes continue throughout life |
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| the giving of positive attention and supportiveness to someone |
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| a sense of grandiose self-importance and entitlement |
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| maladaptive needs that emerge form overuse of strategies to combat basic anxiety |
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| an individuals symbolized relations to other persons (such as parents) |
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| the use of play as a procedure for conducting therapy with children |
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| a period when some interpersonal issue is being dealt with and growth potential and vulnerablity are both high |
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| kohut's theory that that relationships create the structure of the self |
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| the mental symbol of another person who serves functions for oneself |
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| the process of acquiring a distinct identity; seperating from fusion with the mother |
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| a procedure used to assess the attachment pattern of infant to mother |
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| a period in which an infant experiences fusion with the mother |
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| the viewing of other people through selfobject representations originally developed for parents |
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| a cycle of needing affection, failing to obtain it, and thereby increasing the need |
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| the conditioning of an aversive reaction to whats now a positive stimulus |
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| the changing of behavior or therapeutically through conditioning processes |
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| an assessment made by observing a person's overt behavior |
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| the technique of learning to control an internal activity by instrumental conditioning |
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| the pairing of a neutral stimulus with an unconditioned stimulus |
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| a response to the CS that's acquired by classical conditioning |
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| a neutral stimulus that's paired with a US to become conditioned |
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| the simultaneous arousal of two incompatible behavioral tendencies |
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| programs in which reinforcement is increased for a desired behaviors and withheld after undesired behaviors |
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| a schedule in which reinforcement follows each instance of the behavior |
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| the linking of an emotion to a stimulus that differs from the emotion the stimulus now causes |
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| responding in a different manner to different stimuli |
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| a cue that controls the occurence of a behavior |
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| a motivational state that increases behaviors that are high in the habit hierarchy |
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| Classical Conditioning in which the CR is an emotional reaction |
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| Phenomena that occur along with behavior but have no casual role in behavior |
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| treatments in which people stay focused on the distressing topic until well after their anxiety reaction dissipates |
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| In classical conditioning, the reduction of a CR by repeating the CS without the US; in instrumental conditioning, the reduction of a behavioral tendency by removing reinforcement |
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| Responding in a similar manner to somewhat different stimuli |
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| the ordering of a person's potential responses by their likelihood |
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| Higher-order conditioning |
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| event in which a former CS now acts as a US in a new instance of conditioning |
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| Instrumental conditioning |
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| conditioning in which a behavior becomes more likely because it is followed by a desirable event or less likely because it is followed by an undesirable event |
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| The removal of an aversive stimulus |
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| A schedule in which the behavior is reinforced less often than everytime it occurs |
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| Partial Reinforcement effect |
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| the fact that a behavior acquired through partial reinforcement is resistant to extinction |
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| an inappropriately intense fear of some specific class of stimuli |
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| the measuring of physiological aspects of emotional reactions |
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| a reinforcement involving addition of a desired stimulus |
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| an undesired event that weakens the behavior that came before it |
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| the position that behavior should be explained solely on the basis of observable events |
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| An event in whihc a stimulus produces an automatic response |
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| an event that strengthens the behavior that came before it |
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| changing the nature of ongoing behavior by reinforcing a specific aspect of the behavior |
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| Shaping by reinforcing closer approximations of the desired behavior |
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| Systematic Desensitization |
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| a therapeutic procedure intended to extinguish fear |
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| a punishment in which a child is temporarily removed from an enjoyable activity |
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| a reflexive response to an unconditioned stimulus |
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| a stimulus that causes a reflexive response |
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| the condition of having both masculine and feminine qualities |
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| Cognitive-behavioral modification |
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| A therapeutic technique that attempts to change behaviors by changing thought patterns |
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| A model that displays fear but ultimately handles it |
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| confidence of being able to do something successfully |
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| judgement about how likely a specific behavior is to attain a goal |
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| the desirability of an outcome |
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| a state of low motivation and effort following extensive exposure to lack of control |
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| a dimension of believing that one's outcomes are caused by oneself or by external forces |
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| a model that displays no fear |
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| acquiring the ability to do a new behavior by watching someone else do it |
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| the act of practicing a behavior that's hard for oneself while using the therapist as model |
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| the regulation and sometimes restraint of one's own activities |
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| confidence of being able to do something successfully |
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| the approval one gives to oneself for one's own behavior |
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| generalization along a dimension of meaning |
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| the behaviors associated more with members of one sex than the other |
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| the absence or insufficiency of a needed behavior or skill |
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| praise, liking, acceptance, or approval received form someone else |
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| a therapy to develop the ability to cope with a broad range of stressors |
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| models in print, movies, TV, and so on |
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| Vicarious Classical Conditioning |
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| Conditioning in which the unconditioned response occurs via empathy |
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| Vicarious Emotional Arousal |
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| the tendency to feel someone else's feelings along with them;also called empathy |
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| an event in which a reinforcement experienced by someone else has a reinforcing effect on one's own behavior |
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| the response to inability to impose a construct adequately on an event one is experiencing |
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| Constructive Alternativism |
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| the idea that any event can be construed in many ways |
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| the effort to handle a threat by executing whatever response has been chosen |
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| the roles that are central to one's life, contributing to one's identity |
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| the process of defining a threat out of existence |
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| the applying of a construct in a familiar way, causing its refinement |
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| the end of a construct that's being applied to the event being construed |
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| the applying of a construct to an unfamiliar event in an attempt to increase its range of convenience |
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| a therapy in which the client enacts a role that differs somewhat from his or her current self-perception |
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| the range of applicable events for which a construct has the best prediction |
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| the sensing of a discrepancy between one's acts and another's role expectations for oneself |
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| the end of the construct that isn't being applied to the event being construed |
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| the degree to which a construct extends to events to which it hasn't yet been applied |
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| A mental representation used to interpret events |
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| the degree to which a construct can be applied successfully to events |
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| the process of perceiving a threat in the environment |
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| the range of events for which a construct is useful |
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| a test used to identify a person's major constructs |
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| the process of construing how another person construes oneself |
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| the process of determining how to respond to a threat |
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| the perception of an impending reorganization of one's construct system |
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| the process of making a judgement about the cause of an event |
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| self-related internal dialogue that often interferes with behavior |
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| procedures used to assess cognitive processes and contents of consciousness |
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| the process of taking a different and more positive view of one's experience |
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| procedures aimed at reducing cognitive distortions and the resulting distress |
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| negative patterns of thinking about the self, world, and the future |
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| an approach to understanding cognition based on the metaphor of interconnected neurons |
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| something assumed to be true until one learns otherwise |
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| models assuming two different modes of cognition- one effortful, one automatic |
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| memory organized according to sequences of events |
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| specific examples of a category memeber |
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| a category defined by a set of attributes that aren't absolutely necessary for membership |
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| associations between things in memory that are not directly accesible |
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| neurons that are active both when perceiving an action and when doing the action |
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| an area of memory that stores some elements of information |
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| an image of oneself in the future |
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| the process of activating an element in memory by using the information contained in it |
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| the representation of a category in terms of a best member of the category |
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| an organization of knowledge in memory |
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| a memory structure used to represent a highly stereotyped category of events |
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| the degree to which one's self-schema is differentiated and compartmentalized |
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| the schematic representation of the self |
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| memory organized according to meaning |
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| Cognitive processes focusing on socially meaningful stimuli |
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| occurring too fast to be consciously recognized |
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| the way one thinks or labels whatever action he or she is performin |
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| a personal evaluation of the desirability of an action |
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| a mechanism that compares two values to each other |
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| a careful mindset that is used while deciding whether to take an action |
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| to cease and put aside self-regulation with regard to some goal |
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| an organization of feedback loops, in which superordinate loops act by providing reference values to subordinate loops |
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| A self-regulating system that maintains conformity to some comparison value |
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| An attempt to self-regulate toward two incompatible goals at the same time |
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| the intention to attain some particular outcome |
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| Regulation around a constant steady state |
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| A positively biased mindset used while implementing an intention to act |
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| the intention to take specific actions in specific contexts |
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| the process of creating a plan to attain an overall goal by break it into successively more concrete goals (means) |
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| a broad, abstract action quality that could be displayed in any of several programs |
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| a guideline for the actions that take place in some category of events (as a script) |
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| A person's impression of how other people value an action |
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| stimuli presented too quickly to be consciously recognized |
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| a very abstract guide for behavior, such as an ideal sense of self |
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| a theory holding that a vulnerability plus stress creates problems in behavior |
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| a person who is outgoing and prefers social and exciting activities |
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| a dimension that underlies a set of interrelated measures, such as items on a self-report inventory |
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| a statistical procedure used to find basic dimensions underlying a set of measures |
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| A correlation between a single measure and the factor to which it is being related |
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| A theory holding that a vulnerability plus stress creates problems in behavior |
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| A person who is outgoing and prefers social and exciting activities |
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| A dimension that underlies a set of interrelated measures, such as items on self-report inventory |
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| A statistical procedure used to find basic dimensions underlying a set of measures |
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| a correlation between a single measure and the factor to which it is being related |
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| pertaining to an approach that focuses on an individual person's uniqueness |
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| the idea that situations and personality interact to determine behavior |
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| personality patterns deriving from varying levels of dominance and love |
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| A person who prefers solitary activities |
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| An index of the importance of a trait from the number of words that refers to it |
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| pertaining to an approach that focuses on norms and on variations among persons |
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| A stereotypic correlation between personality and behavior of about .30 |
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| a factor that emerges from a factor analysis performed on a set of perviously found factors |
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| the idea that situations are the primary determinants of behavior |
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| dimensions of personality on which people vary |
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| distinct and discontinuous categories of persons |
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| the projection of a motive onto an ambiguous external stimulus via imagery |
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| the extent to which a task provides information about something |
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| A motive assessed indirectly by fantasy or other narrative |
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| The degree to which an action can satisfy a particular need for a person |
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| Inhibited power motivation |
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| the condition of having more need for power than for affiliation but restraining its use |
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| Cognitive-affective clusters organized around readiness for a particular kind of experience |
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| An unsatisfactory internal condition that motivates behavior |
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| the need to overcome obstacles and attain goals |
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| the need to form and maintain relationships and to be with people |
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| the need for close communication with someone else |
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| the need to have influence over other people |
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| the study of the entire person |
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| An external stimulus that increases the level of a motive |
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| a biological need, such as the need for food |
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| A psychological or social need |
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| a motive that is consciously reported |
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| Thematic Apperception Test |
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| A method of assessing the strength of a motive through narrative fantasy |
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| the overall output of a person's energy or behavior |
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| a study of resemblances between children and their adoptive and biological parents |
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| Some version of particular gene |
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| mating based on choice of specific characteristics rather than random |
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| the study of inheritance of behavioral qualities |
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| a mental overintensity that promotes apprehensiveness and social inhibition |
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| agreement on some characteristic between a twin and a co-twin |
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| evolution in which one extreme of a dimension is more adaptive than the other |
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| a tendency toward frail thinness |
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| a tendency to be focused, restrained, and planful |
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| the tendency to become emotionally aroused easily |
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| a tendency toward obesity |
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| the study of animals in their natural environment |
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| Genetic Similarity Theory |
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| the idea that people work toward reproducing genes similar to their own |
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| the sequence of the genes contained in the full complement of chromosomes |
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| the particular version of gene that a given person or group or group has |
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| an estimate of how much variance of some characteristic is accounted for by inheritance |
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| the passing on of genes through the survival of relatives |
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| a tendency toward muscularity |
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| the study of how alleles of specific genes relate to other observed differences |
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| the characteristic of having more than one allele for a given gene |
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| helping others with the expectation the help will be returned |
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| the tendency to prefer being with people over being alone |
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| the study of the evolutionary basis for social behavior |
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| Energetic desire for adventure and physical activity |
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| the description of a person's body configuration along three dimensions |
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| Evolution in which intermediate values of a dimension are most adaptive |
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| inherited traits that appear early in life |
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| a study comparing similarity between MZ twins against similarity between DZ twins |
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| A relaxed sociability and love of comfort |
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| Chemicals that mimic the body's tendency to rebuild muscle tissues |
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| a person who displays impulsive action with little thought to consequences |
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| Behavioral approach system |
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| the part of the brain that regulates pursuit of incentives |
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| Behavioral Inhibition System |
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| the part of the brain that regulates anticipation of punishment |
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| A neurotransmitter believe to be especially important to approach regulation |
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| A record of overall electrical activity in the higher regions of the brain |
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| Use of MRI to create a picture of activity inside the brain in different mental states |
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| Impulsive unsocialized sensation seeking |
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| trait involving the capcity to inhibit behavior in the service of social adaptation |
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| things that people desire |
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| a picture of activity inside the brain based on the brain's electromagnetic energy |
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| the predisposition to experience negative feelings frequently |
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| a chemical involved in sending messages along nerve pathways |
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| the shift of attention to a stimulus that suddenly appears |
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| a therapy based on use of medication |
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| the predisposition to experience positive feelings frequently |
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| a picture of activity in the brain based on the brains metabolism |
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| The tendency to seek out varied, unusual, and exciting stimuli |
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| a neurotransmitter that some believe is involved in behavioral inhibition |
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| one's self as one presently views it |
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| the tendency to grow in ways that maintain or enhance the organism |
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| Clarification of Feelings |
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| the procedure in which a therapist restates a client's expressed feelings |
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| A type of therapy that removes conditions of worth and has clients examine their feelings |
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| Conditional Positive regard |
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| Affection that is only given under certain conditions |
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| self-acceptance that is only given under certain conditions |
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| Contingencies placed on positive regard |
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| An integration within the self and a coherence between the self and one's experiences |
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| The grouping and counting of various categories of statements in an interview |
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| self-acceptance that's based on performance in some domain of life |
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| "being in the world"; the totality of one's autonomous personal existence |
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| A motive reflecting a lack within the person that needs to be filled |
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| A sense of guilt over failing to fulfill all of one's possibilities |
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| the view that people are responsible for investing their lives with meaning |
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| the experience of being immersed completely in an activity |
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| a person who's open to the experiences of life and who's self-actualizing |
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| a motive reflecting the desire to extend and elaborate oneself |
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| a branch of psychology emphasizing the universal capacity for personal growth |
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| the personal values to which one aspires |
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| Organismic Valuing Process |
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| The internal signal that tells whether self-actualization is occuring |
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| A subjective experience of intense self-actualization |
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| An Assessment technique in which descriptors are sorted according to how much they apply to oneself |
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| A motive to regain or reassert a freedom that's been threatened |
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| a procedure in which a therapist rephrases the ideas expressed by a client |
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| a process of growing in ways that maintain or enhance the self |
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| Pursuing goals that are consistent with one's core values |
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| deciding for oneself what to do |
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| Qualities of the self one desires to be or feels compelled to be |
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| Creating situations that make it hard to succeed, thus enabling avoidance of self-blame for failure |
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| Having a negative perception of the self because of feeling prejudged |
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| Transcendent Self-actualizers |
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| People whose actualization goes beyond the self to become more universal |
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| Unconditional Positive Regard |
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| Acceptance and affection with "no strings attached" |
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