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Who is Abraham Maslow?
I came up with the hierarchy of needs
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What is trait?
The characteristic pattern of behaviors or motivations to feel or act, as assessed by self-report inventories or peer report
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What is self?
The organizer of thoughts, feelings, and actions; the center of personality
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What is self-actualization?
The motivation to fulfill our potential
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Who are Hans and Sybil Eysenck?
We reduced individual variations into 2 or 3 dimensions including extraversion-introversion and emotional stability-instability
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What is the spotlight effect?
Tendency to overestimate others' noticing and evaluating our appearance, performance, and blunders
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What is self-transcendence?
The meaning, purpose, and communion beyond self
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What are personality inventories?
Long questionnaires that cover a wide range of feelings and behaviors which assess several traits at once
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What is self-esteem?
One's feelings of self-worth
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What is unconditional positive regard?
The attitude of total acceptance toward others
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What is an empirically derived test?
Test a pool of items and select those that discriminate between groups
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What is self-serving bias?
The readiness to perceive oneself favorably
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What is self-concept?
All the thoughts and feelings about ourselves, in response to the question "Who am I?"
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What are conscientiousness, agreeableness, neoroticism, openness, and extroversion?
The Big Five Traits
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What is collectivism?
Priority to group's goal more than personal goal
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