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| 6447458592 | personality | a person's characteristic pattern of thinking feeling and acting |  | 0 |
| 6447458593 | psychoanalytic | childhood sexuality and unconscious motivations influence personality |  | 1 |
| 6447458594 | humanistic | inner capacities for growth and self fulfillment |  | 2 |
| 6447458595 | free assoiciation | person relaxes and talks about whatever comes to mind, no matter how trivial or embarrassing |  | 3 |
| 6447458596 | unconscious (Freud) | reservoir of unacceptable thoughts, wishes, feelings, memories |  | 4 |
| 6447458597 | unconscious (contemporary psychologists) | information processing we are unaware of |  | 5 |
| 6447458598 | repress | forcibly block |  | 6 |
| 6447458599 | id | reservoir of unconscious psychic energy that strives to satisfy basic sexual and aggressive drives operates on pleasure principle demanding immediate gratification |  | 7 |
| 6447458600 | ego | "executive part of personality that mediates along demands of id, superego, and reality. containts partly conscious perceptions, thoughts, judgments, and memories |  | 8 |
| 6447458601 | superego | represents internalized ideals and provides standards for judgment and future aspirations |  | 9 |
| 6447458602 | psychosexual stages | childhood stages of development oral, anal, phallic, latency, genital id's pleasure seeking energies focus on distinct erogenous zones |  | 10 |
| 6447458603 | erogenous zones | pleasure sensitive areas of the body |  | 11 |
| 6447458604 | phallic stage | boys seek genital stimulation |  | 12 |
| 6447458605 | Oedipus complex | boys develop unconscious sexual desires for mother and jealousy and hatred for father |  | 13 |
| 6447458606 | Electra complex | girls develop unconscious sexual desires for father and jealousy and hatred for mother |  | 14 |
| 6447458607 | identification | process by which children incorporate parents' values into developing superegos |  | 15 |
| 6447458608 | fixate | lingering focus of pleasure seeking energies at earlier psychosexual stage in which conflicts were unresolved |  | 16 |
| 6447458609 | defense mechanisms | tactics that reduce or redirect anxiety by distorting reality |  | 17 |
| 6447458610 | repression | banishes anxiety-arousing wishes from consciousness | | 18 |
| 6447458611 | reaction formation | ego unconsciously makes unacceptable impulses look like their opposites |  | 19 |
| 6447458612 | projection | disguises threatening impulses by attributing them to others |  | 20 |
| 6447458613 | rationalization | unconsciously generate self-justifying explanations to hide from outselves the real reasons for our actions |  | 21 |
| 6447458614 | displacement | diverts sexual or aggressive impulses toward an object or person that is psychologically more acceptable than the one that aroused the feelings |  | 22 |
| 6447458615 | sublimation | transformation of unacceptable impulses into socially valued motivations |  | 23 |
| 6447458616 | denial | protects the person from real events that are painful to accept either by rejecting a fact or its seriousness |  | 24 |
| 6447458617 | collective unconscious | common reservoir of images derived from our species universal experiences |  | 25 |
| 6447458618 | projective test | aim to provide this "psychological x-ray" by asking test-takers to describe an ambiguous stimulus or tell a story about it |  | 26 |
| 6447458619 | Thematic Apperception Test (TAT) | people view ambiguous pictures and then make up stories about them |  | 27 |
| 6447458620 | Rorschach inkblot test | people describe what they see in a series of inkblots |  | 28 |
| 6447458621 | terror-management theory | thinking about one's morlity provokes various terror-management devices |  | 29 |
| 6447458622 | self-actualization | process of fulfilling our potential |  | 30 |
| 6447458623 | self-transcendence | meaning, purpose, and communication beyond the self |  | 31 |
| 6447458624 | peak experiences | surpass ordinary consciousness |  | 32 |
| 6447458625 | unconditional positive regard | attitude of total acceptance toward another person |  | 33 |
| 6447458626 | self-concept | all our thoughts and feelings about ourselves, in answer to "who am i?" |  | 34 |
| 6447458627 | trait | people's characteristics behaviors and conscious motives |  | 35 |
| 6447458628 | personality inventories | a questionnaire covering a wide range of feelings and behaviors that is designed to assess several traits at once |  | 36 |
| 6447458629 | Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI) | identify "abnormal" rather than normal personality traits |  | 37 |
| 6447458630 | empirically derived test | a test developed by testing a pool of items and then selecting those that discriminate between groups CANOE Consciousness, Agreeableness, Neuroticism, Openness, Extraversion |  | 38 |
| 6447458631 | social- cognitive perspective | view behavior as influenced by the interaction between people's traits and their social context |  | 39 |
| 6447458632 | reciprocal determinism | interacting influences of behavior. internal cognition, and environment |  | 40 |
| 6447458633 | personal control | extent to which people perceive control over their environment rather than feeling helplessness |  | 41 |
| 6447458634 | external locus of control | perception that chance or outside forces beyond your personal control determine your fate |  | 42 |
| 6447458635 | internal locus of control | perception that you control your own fate |  | 43 |
| 6447458636 | positive psychology | a psychology concerned not only with weakness and damage but also with strength and virtue |  | 44 |
| 6447458637 | self | center of personality, organizer of our thoughts, feelings, and actions |  | 45 |
| 6447458638 | spotlight effect | overestimating others' noticing and evaluating our appearance, performance, and blunders |  | 46 |
| 6447458639 | self-esteem | one's feelings of high or low self-worth |  | 47 |
| 6447458640 | self-serving bias | readiness to perceive oneself favorably |  | 48 |
| 6447458641 | 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 |  | 49 |
| 6447458642 | collectivism | giving priority to the goals of one's group and defining one's identity accordingly |  | 50 |
