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| 6550276863 | personality | an individual's characteristic pattern of thinking, feeling, and acting | 0 | |
| 6550278949 | free association | in psychoanalysis, a method of exploring the unconscious in which the person relaxes and says whatever comes to mind, no matter how trivial or embarrassing | 1 | |
| 6550281359 | psychoanalysis | Freud's theory of personality that attributes thoughts and actions to unconscious motives and conflicts | 2 | |
| 6550286417 | unconscious | a reservoir of mostly unacceptable thoughts, wishes, feelings, and memories or information processing of which we are unaware | 3 | |
| 6550293662 | id | a reservoir of unconscious psychic energy that, according to Freud, strives to satisfy basic sexual and aggressive drives. | 4 | |
| 6550298034 | ego | the largely conscious, "executive" part of personality | 5 | |
| 6550301800 | superego | the part of the personality that, according to Freud, represents internalized ideals and provides standards for judgment (the conscience) and for future aspirations | 6 | |
| 6550306025 | psychosexual stages | the childhood stages of development (oral, anal, phallic, latency, genital) during which, according to Freud, the id's pleasure-seeking energies focus on distinct erogenous zones | 7 | |
| 6550313683 | Oedipus Complex | according to Freud, a boy's sexual desires toward his mother and feelings of jealousy and hatred for the rival father | 8 | |
| 6550317094 | identification | the process by which, according to Freud, children incorporate their parents' values into their developing superegos | 9 | |
| 6550344438 | fixation | according to Freud, a lingering focus of pleasure-seeking energies at an earlier psychosexual stage, in which conflicts were unresolved. | 10 | |
| 6550348901 | defense mechanisms | in psychoanalytic theory, the ego's protective methods of reducing anxiety by unconsciously distorting reality | 11 | |
| 6550383731 | repression | in psychoanalytic theory, the basic defense mechanism that banishes anxiety-arousing thoughts, feelings, and memories from consciousness. | 12 | |
| 6550401915 | regression | psychoanalytic defense mechanism in which an individual faced with anxiety retreats to a more infantile psychosexual stage, where some psychic energy remains fixated | 13 | |
| 6550404100 | reaction formation | psychoanalytic defense mechanism by which the ego unconsciously switches unacceptable impulses into their opposites | 14 | |
| 6550409203 | projection | psychoanalytic defense mechanism by which people disguise their own threatening impulses by attributing them to others | 15 | |
| 6550413296 | rationalization | psychoanalytic defense mechanism that offers self-justifying explanations in place of the real, more threatening, unconscious reasons for one's actions | 16 | |
| 6550420725 | displacement | psychoanalytic defense mechanism that shifts sexual or aggressive impulses toward a more acceptable or less threatening object or person | 17 | |
| 6550423483 | sublimation | psychoanalytic defense mechanism by which people re-channel their unacceptable impulses into socially approved activities | 18 | |
| 6550427530 | denial | psychoanalytic defense mechanism by which people refuse to believe or even to perceive painful realities | 19 | |
| 6550446610 | collective unconscious | Carl Jung's concept of a shared, inherited reservoir of memory traces from our species' history | 20 | |
| 6550450485 | projective test | a personality test, such as the Rorschack or TAT that provides ambiguous stimuli designed to trigger projection of one's inner dynamics | 21 | |
| 6550452893 | Thematic Apperception Test | a projective test in which people express their inner feelings and interests through the stories they make up about ambiguous scenes | 22 | |
| 6550464983 | Rorschach inkblot test | the most widely used projective test, a set of 10 pictures which seek to identify people's inner feelings by analyzing their interpretations of the blots | 23 | |
| 6550467871 | terror-management theory | a theory of death related anxiety; explored people's emotional behavioral responses to reminders of their impending death | 24 | |
| 6550482298 | self-actualization | according to Maslow, one of the ultimate psychological needs that arises after basic physical and psychological needs are met and self-esteem is achieved; the motivation to fulfill one's potential | 25 | |
| 6550485319 | unconditional positive regard | according to Rogers, an attitude of total acceptance toward another person | 26 | |
| 6550491615 | self-concept | all our thoughts and feelings about ourselves, in answer to the question, "Who am I" | 27 | |
| 6550495698 | trait | a characteristic pattern of behavior or a disposition to feel and act, as assessed by self-report inventories and peer reports | 28 | |
| 6550498937 | personality inventory | a questionnaire on which people respond to items designed to gauge a wide range of feelings and behaviors | 29 | |
| 6550506392 | Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory | the most widely researched and clinically used of all personality tests. Originally developed to identify emotional disorders, this test is now used for many other screening purposes | 30 | |
| 6550508396 | empirically derived test | a test developed by testing a pool of items and then selecting those that discriminate between groups | 31 | |
| 6550516671 | social-cognitive perspective | behavior as influenced by the interaction between people's traits(including their thinking) and their social context | 32 | |
| 6550519295 | reciprocal determinism | the interacting influences of behavior, internal cognition, and environment | 33 | |
| 6550916267 | personal control | the extent to which people perceive control over their environment rather than feeling helpless | 34 | |
| 6550924114 | external locus of control | the perception that chance or outside forces beyond your personal control determine your fate | 35 | |
| 6550931087 | internal locus of control | the perception that you control your own fate | 36 | |
| 6550938325 | positive psychology | the scientific study of optimal human functioning; aims to discover and promote strengths and virtues that enable individuals and communities to thrive | 37 | |
| 6550942988 | self | in contemporary psychology, assumed to be the center of personality, the organizer of our thoughts, feelings, and actions | 38 | |
| 6550946008 | spotlight effect | overestimating others' noticing and evaluating our appearance, performance, and blunders (as if we presume a spotlight shines on us) | 39 | |
| 6550952708 | self-esteem | one's feelings of high or low self-worth | 40 | |
| 6550953819 | self-serving bias | a readiness to perceive oneself favorably | 41 | |
| 6550956797 | individualism | giving priority to one's own goals over group goals and defining one's identity in terms of personal attributes rather than group identifications | 42 | |
| 6550959335 | collectivism | giving priority to the goals of one's group (often one's extended family or work group) and defining one's identity accordingly | 43 |
