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| what are the major determinants of personality? |
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| individual's temperamental traits, and his or her interaction with the social environment |
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individual differences in reactivity and self regualtion within the domains of emotionality, motor activity, and attention.
So these are inborn charachteristics--of the nervous system--resulting from both genetic and intrauterine factors |
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| individual's responsivity to changes in the environment |
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| process modulating the individual's reactivity (approach, avoidance, inhibition) |
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| a temperamental category is a quality that |
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| varies among individuals, moderately stable over time, under genetic influece, appears early in life |
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| apathetic and sluggish, not easily stirred to emotion |
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| tendency to be quiet and to negative, depressed mood. |
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| what are the 3 types of children Chess and Thomas defined in relationship to temperment? |
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the easy child
2. the slow to warm up child
3. the difficult child |
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| define Kagan's inhibited child |
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timid, rather than spontaneous, shy, higher, more stable heart rates, larger pupils, greater motor tension.
As compared to disinhibited children, inhibited children showed impaired recall following stress, phobias, atopic allergies. |
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| extremely outgoing and sociable, curious, lower and more heart rate variability, normal pupillary diameters, no difference in motor tension as compared to controls. |
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| how does temperment evolve into personality? |
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reciprocal interaction
2. goodness of fit
3. resiliency and vulnerability |
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| Cloninger's 3 dimensions of personality: |
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1. Novelty seeking: DOPAMINE
2. Harm avoidance: SEROTONIN
3. Reward Dependence (resistance to extinction): NOREPI |
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| what are defense mechanisms |
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| unconscious reaction patterns serving to protect the indvidiual from guilt, impulses, internal conflicts, and other threats to ego |
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| what are the purposes of defense mechanisms? |
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1. to keep emotions within bearable limits during life crises
2. restore emotional balance by channeling biological drives
3.to obtain a "time out" to master changes in self-image
4. to handle unresolvable conflicts with living or dead people that one can't bear to leave
5. to survive major conflicts with consience |
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| what are psychotic defenses? |
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(altering one's perception of reality. can occur in normals <5yo)
delusional projection; denial; distortion |
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| what are immature defense mechanisms? |
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(Common in normals 3-15) (alter distress engendered by threats of interpersonal intimacy or loss by transforming the distress into ones acknowledged as NOT self-generated)
1. projection 2. schizoid fantasy 3. hypochondriasis 4. passive-aggressive behavior 5. acting out |
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| What are neurotic defense mechanisms? |
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alter private feelings so as to minimize distress to the individual
1. intellectualization
2. repression
3. displacement
4. reaction formation
5. dissociation |
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| what are mature defense mechanisms? |
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(integrate reality, interpersonal relationships and private feelings in a more addaptive way)
1. altruism
2. humour
3. suppression
4. anticipation
5. sublimation |
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ECCENTRIC
1. paranoid
2. schizoid
3. schizotypical |
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THE DRAMATIC DISORDERS
1. antisocial
2. borderline
3. histrionic
4. narcissistic |
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ANXIOUS disorders
1. avoidant
2. dependent
3. O-C |
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