TERMS FOR UNITS 10 (Personality) and 11 (Individual Differences)
1. Personality
2. Eros
3. Thanatos
4. Id
5. Pleasure principle
6. Ego
7. Reality principle
8. Superego
9. Conscience
10. Defense mechanisms
11. Repression
12. Displacement
13. Reaction formation
14. Rationalization
15. Projection
16. Regression
17. Sublimation
18. Intellectualization
19. parapraxes
20. free association
21. personal unconscious
22. collective unconscious
23. archetypes (anima, animus, persona, the shadow)
24. projective tests (inkblots, TAT)
25. Objective tests (personality inventories- MMPI, MBTI, Big 5)
26. factor analysis
27. nomothetic approach
28. idiographic approach
29. Allport’s trait levels (central, secondary, cardinal)
30. Big five personality traits (OCEAN)
31. heritability
32. temperament
33. reciprocal determinism
34. self efficacy
35. locus of control (internal and external)
36. self-actualization
37. self-concept
38. growth promoting climate
39. unconditional positive regard
40. self esteem
41. fully functioning traits (Rogers)
42. psychometricians
43. standardization
44. reliability
45. validity
46. aptitude test
47. achievement test
48. speed test
49. power test
50. group test
51. individual test
52. intelligence
53. general intelligence (g factor)
54. multiple intelligences
55. savant syndrome
56. emotional intelligence
57. Sternberg’s triarchic theory of intelligence (componential/analytical, experiential/creative,
contextual/practical)
58. eugenics movement
59. mental age
60. “Termites”
61. Verbal IQ
62. Performance IQ
63. Flynn effect
64. Stereotype threat