1. AP Psych DMA Please turn in your FRQ (in-box)
The perception that one’s fate is determined by luck reflects…
What is a collectivist culture? What are they most likely to stress the importance of…?
Please turn in your FRQ (in-box)
Please write the questions & leave room for your answers.

2. Today’s Agenda DMA/turn in FRQ Rush reminders Chapter 15 Unconscious
Humanistic perspective
Socio-cultural perspective
Homework:
Registration Rush – Tomorrow!
Chapter 15 test – Monday, March 5th
Chapter 15 notes due Monday, March 5th
Chapter 15 review session – Thursday, Mar. 1st, 7:00 AM, Wheeler’s classroom

3. Registration Rush is tomorrow!!!!
Katie, Peter, Bella & Duy

4. Defense Mechanisms Defense Mechanisms
the ego’s protective methods of reducing anxiety by unconsciously distorting reality

5. Defense Mechanisms Form groups of 3-6 people
Get a defense mechanism from Wheeler
Create a brief skit that demonstrates the defense mechanism happening
DO NOT tell us the defense mechanism – we will guess
Your skit should be less than 1 minute long.
Feel free to make it funny 
Everyone must participate
You only have 7 minutes to create & rehearse your skit.

6. Assessing the Unconscious
Projective Test
a personality test
such as the Rorschach or TAT
designed to trigger projection of one’s inner dynamics
Thematic Apperception Test (TAT)
a projective test in which people express their inner feelings and interests through the stories they make up about ambiguous scenes

7. Assessing the Unconscious--TAT

8. Assessing the Unconscious
Rorschach Inkblot Test
the most widely used projective test
a set of 10 inkblots designed by Hermann Rorschach
seeks to identify people’s inner feelings by analyzing their interpretations of the blots

9. Neo-Freudians Discuss with a neighbor
Turn to page 583 in your textbook
Discuss with a neighbor
Who were Alfred Adler, Karen Horney and Carl Jung?
What did they do? Why are they important?

10. Humanistic Perspective
Abraham Maslow ( )
studied self- actualization processes of productive and healthy people (e.g., Lincoln)

11. Humanistic Perspective
Carl Rogers ( )
focused on growth and fulfillment of individuals
genuineness
acceptance
empathy

12. Humanistic Perspective
Unconditional Positive Regard
an attitude of total acceptance toward another person
Self-Concept
all our thoughts and feelings about ourselves, in an answer to the question, “Who am I?”

13. The Trait Perspective
Turn to page 595 & read the “Big Five” personality factors table.

14. Matchmaker, Matchmaker
Please complete the activity

15. Social-Cognitive Perspective
interaction between persons and their social context
Reciprocal Determinism
interacting influences between personality and environmental factors

16. Social-Cognitive Perspective
Personal Control
our sense of controlling our environments rather than feeling helpless
External Locus of Control
perception that chance or outside forces beyond one’s personal control determine one’s fate

17. Survey Please answer the questions honestly.
You will be asked to share your responses.

18. Survey
Many of the unhappy things in people's lives are partly due to bad luck
People's misfortunes result from the mistakes they make.

19. Survey
One of the major reasons why we have wars is because people don't take enough interest in politics.
There will always be wars, no matter how hard people try to prevent them.

20. Survey
In the long run, people get the respect they deserve in this world.
Unfortunately, an individual's worth often passes unrecognized no matter how hard he tries

21. Survey
The idea that teachers are unfair to students is nonsense.
Most students don't realize the extent to which their grades are influenced by accidental happenings.

22. Survey Without the right breaks, one cannot be an effective leader.
Capable people who fail to became leaders have not taken advantage of their opportunities.

23. Survey No matter how hard you try, some people just don't like you.
People who can't get others to like them don't understand how to get along with others.

24. Survey I have often found that what is going to happen will happen.
Trusting to fate has never turned out as well for me as making a decision to take a definite course of action.

25. Survey
In the case of the well prepared student, there is rarely, if ever, such a thing as an unfair test.
Many times exam questions tend to be so unrelated to course work that studying is really useless.

26. Survey
Becoming a success is a matter of hard work; luck has little or nothing to do with it.
Getting a good job depends mainly on being in the right place at the right time.

27. Survey
The average citizen can have an influence in government decisions.
This world is run by the few people in power, and there is not much the little guy can do about it.

28. Survey
When I make plans, I am almost certain that I can make them work.
It is not always wise to plan too far ahead because many things turn out to be a matter of luck anyway.

29. Survey
In my case, getting what I want has little or nothing to do with luck.
Many times we might just as well decide what to do by flipping a coin.

30. Survey What happens to me is my own doing.
Sometimes I feel that I don't have enough control over the direction my life is taking..

31. Social-Cognitive Perspective
Internal Locus of Control
the perception that one controls one’s own fate
Learned Helplessness
the hopelessness/passive resignation an animal or human learns when unable to avoid repeated aversive events

32. Social-Cognitive Perspective
Learned Helplessness
Uncontrollable
bad events
Perceived
lack of control
Generalized
helpless behavior

33. Social-Cognitive Perspective
Positive Psychology
scientific study of optimal human functioning
aims to discover &and promote conditions that enable individuals and communities to thrive

34. Exploring the Self Spotlight Effect
overestimating others noticing and evaluating our appearance, performance, and blunders
Self Esteem
one’s feelings of high or low self-worth
Self-Serving Bias
readiness to perceive oneself favorably

35. Exploring the Self Individualism
giving priority to one’s own goals over group goals
defining one’s identity in terms of personal attributes rather than group identifications
Collectivism
giving priority to the goals of one’s group (often one’s extended family or work group)
defining one’s identity accordingly

36. Exploring the Self
Morality Defined by individuals Defined by social networks
(self-based) (duty-based)
Attributing Behavior reflects one’s personality Behavior reflects social
behaviors and attitudes and roles
Value Contrasts Between Individualism and Collectivism
Concept Individualism Collectivism
Self Independent Interdependent
(identity from individual traits) identity from belonging)
Life task Discover and express one’s Maintain connections, fit in
uniqueness
What matters Me--personal achievement and We-group goals and solidarity;
fullfillment; rights and liberties social responsibilities and
relationships
Coping method Change reality Accommodate to reality
Relationships Many, often temporary or casual; Few, close and enduring;
confrontation acceptable harmony valued