What a man can be, he must be!

University of Bucharest
Faculty of Foreign Languages and Literatures Applied Modern Languages Department

Academic Supervisor:
Lecturer Daria Protopopescu

Author:
Susoiu Stefania-Roxana

Bucharest, June 2011

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Acting Out
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The display of previously inhibited emotions (often in actions rather than words); considered to be healthy and therapeutic. Acting Out
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Noun Phrase Defense Mechanism Play therapy Repressed destructive anger This is the process of expressing unconscious emotional conflicts or feelings via actions rather than words. Acting out may be harmful or, in controlled situations, therapeutic. Psychopathology

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Behavior
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The aggregate of the responses or reactions or movements made by an organism in any situation. Comportament
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Noun Mental reaction Behaviourism Maladaptive behavior Manner

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Maladaptive behaviors are a set of behaviors that a child might exhibit that are inappropriate or disruptive in nature. Psychology Official

Multiple Personality
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English RO http://www.thefreedictionary.com A mental disorder in which an individuals personality appears to have separated into two or more distinct personalities. Personalitate multipla Noun Split personality Dissociative disorder Ego Split personality Multiple Personality Disorder (MPD) is an abnormal condition in which the personality becomes so fragmented that various parts cannot even communicate with each other. Psychology

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Personal Construct Theory

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English RO http://www.thefreedictionary.com A social psychological theory developed by George Alexander Kelly which argues that a persons processes are psychologically channelized by the ways in which he anticipates events. Noun phrase Human cognition Cognition Construct Human cognition theory Kelly defined a personal construct as a persons belief about how two things are alike and different from the third. Philip Zimbardo, Psychology and Life, Allyn & Bacon, 19th edition 2002 Psychology

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Personal Unconscious
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In analytical psychology, Carl Jungs term for the Freudian Unconscious, as contrasted with the collective unconscious. Inconstient personal
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Noun phrase The unconscious aspect of the Ego The unconscious Ego No mans land And third, there is the personal unconscious, perhaps understood as the unconscious aspect of the Ego. It is composed of our idiosyncratic habits, the most personal things we have learned so well we no longer need to be conscious of them in order to enact them. http://webspace.ship.edu/cgboer/conclusions.html

Psychic Energy
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English RO http://www.thefreedictionary.com In Freudian theory, the primary source of motivation for human actions and the dynamic force behind all behavior. Fort psihic
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Noun phrase Mental energy and death drive The Id Motive Mental energy

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Imagine an energy field of light all around you like you are in a bubble. This is your psychic energy. Psychology Official

Reinforcement
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Is a term in operant conditioning and behavior analysis For the process of increasing the rate or probability of a behavior by the delivery or emergences of a stimulus immediately or shortly after the behavior, called a response is performed.
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Noun Stimulus that emerges when the response behavior is performed. Response-behavior Positive reinforcement Stimulus Reinforcement hierarchy is a list of actions, rank-ordering, the most desirable to least desirable consequences that may serve as a reinforcer. http://www.thefreedictionary.com Psychology

Secondary Gain
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An indirect benefit, usually obtained through an illness or debility. Such gains may include monetary and disability benefits, personal attention. Motivaie secundar
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Noun phrase External and incidental advantage derived from illness. Unconscious Primary gain Advantage Her symptom would also have a secondary gain. By making her feel helpless it would bring her attention, comfort, sympathy from others. Psychology Official

The Mandala
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English RO http://encyclopedia.thefreedictionary.com/mandala The assumed archetype of the self, appearing as a circle and symbolizing the striving for unity and wholeness. Mandala
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Noun The embodiment of the self Archetype Pattern The self The example of the mandala leads towards an insight showing that the process of thinking with pictures operates in the human cognition and enables us the design process. Psychology Official

Undoing
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English RO http://encyclopedia.thefreedictionary.com/undoing A defense mechanism in which a person tries to undo an Unhealthy, destructive or threatening thought or action by Engaging in contrary behavior. Anulare retroactiva http://encyclopedia.thefreedictionary.com/undoing Noun The act of reversing Obsessive-compulsing acts Defense mechanism Reversal The defense mechanism of undoing is based on the notion that it is possible to make amends, to correct mistakes made. Psychology Official

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C O N C L S I O N S

At the top, we have history, society and culture which influence us primarily through our learning as mediated by our family, media. At the bottom, we have evolution, genetics, and biology, which influence us by means of our physiology. Some of the specifics most relevant to psychology are instincts, temperaments and health.

English Refferences:
A personality textbook based on the system: Mayer (2005) Personality psychology: A systems approach (3rd Classroom Test Edition). Boston: Pearson Custom. Mayer, J. D. (2003). Structural divisions of personality and the classification of traits. Review of General Psychology, 7, 381-401 Philip Zimbardo, Psychology and Life, Allyn & Bacon, 19th edition 2002 Eysenck, H. J., & Eysenck, M. w. Personality and individual differences: A natural science approach. New York: Plenum, 1985 Romanian Refferences: Psihologia Personalitii Trsturi, cauze, consecine; Matthew Gerald, Ian I. Deary, Martha C. Whiteman, Editura Polirom, Bucureti, 2006 Marele Dicionar al Psihologiei, Larousse, Editura Tei, 2005 Introducere in Psihologie, Mielu Zlate, Editura Polirom, 1999, Bucureti