Advanced Placement Psychology
Enterprise High School, Redding, CA
All terms from Myers Psychology for AP (BFW Worth, 2011)
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| 6066120560 | personality | an individual's characteristic pattern of thinking, feeling, and acting. |  | 0 |
| 6066120561 | 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 |
| 6066120562 | psychoanalysis | Freud's theory of personality and therapeutic technique that attributes thoughts and actions to unconscious motives and conflicts. |  | 2 |
| 6066120563 | unconscious | according to Freud, a reservoir of mostly unacceptable thoughts, wishes, feelings, and memories. |  | 3 |
| 6066120564 | id | operates on the pleasure principle, demanding immediate gratification. |  | 4 |
| 6066120565 | ego | the part of personality that, according to Freud, mediates among the demands of the id, superego, and reality. It operates on the reality principle | | 5 |
| 6066120566 | superego | the part of personality that, according to Freud, represents internalized ideals and provides standards for judgment (the conscience) and for future aspirations. | | 6 |
| 6066120567 | 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 |
| 6066120568 | Oedipus complex | according to Freud, a boy's sexual desires toward his mother and feelings of jealousy and hatred for the rival father. |  | 8 |
| 6066120570 | fixation | (1) the inability to see a problem from a new perspective, by employing a different mental set. (2) according to Freud, a lingering focus of pleasure-seeking energies at an earlier psychosexual stage, in which conflicts were unresolved. |  | 9 |
| 6066120571 | defense mechanisms | in psychoanalytic theory, the ego's protective methods of reducing anxiety by unconsciously distorting reality. |  | 10 |
| 6066120572 | repression | basic defense mechanism that banishes anxiety-arousing thoughts, feelings, and memories from consciousness |  | 11 |
| 6066120573 | regression | allows us to retreat to an earlier, more infantile stage of development |  | 12 |
| 6066120574 | reaction formation | the ego unconsciously makes unacceptable impulses look like their opposites |  | 13 |
| 6066120575 | projection | disguises threatening impulses by attributing them to others - I feel sad so I say you feel sad |  | 14 |
| 6066120576 | rationalization | occurs when we unconsciously generate self-justifying explanations to hide from ourselves the real reasons for our actions |  | 15 |
| 6066120577 | displacement | diverts impulses toward an object or person that is psychologically more acceptable than the one that aroused the feelings |  | 16 |
| 6066120578 | sublimation | the transformation of unacceptable impulses into socially valued motivations |  | 17 |
| 6066120579 | denial | protects the person from real events that are painful to accept, either by rejecting a fact or its seriousness |  | 18 |
| 6066120580 | collective unconscious | a common reservoir of images derived from our species' universal experiences |  | 19 |
| 6066120581 | projective test | a personality test, such as the Rorschach or TAT, that provides ambiguous stimuli designed to trigger projection of one's inner dynamics |  | 20 |
| 6066120582 | 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 |  | 21 |
| 6066120583 | 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. |  | 22 |
| 6066120584 | 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. |  | 23 |
| 6066120585 | unconditional positive regard | a caring, accepting, nonjudgmental attitude, which Carl Rogers believed would help clients to develop self-awareness and self-acceptance. | | 24 |
| 6066120586 | self-concept | all our thoughts and feelings about ourselves, in answer to the question, "Who am I?" |  | 25 |
| 6066120587 | trait | a characteristic pattern of behavior or a disposition to feel and act, as assessed by self-report inventories and peer reports. |  | 26 |
| 6066120588 | personality inventory | a questionnaire (often with true-false or agree-disagree items) on which people respond to items designed to gauge a wide range of feelings and behaviors; used to assess selected personality traits. |  | 27 |
| 6066120591 | social-cognitive perspective | views behavior as influenced by the interaction between people's traits (including their thinking) and their social context. |  | 28 |
| 6066120592 | reciprocal determinism | the interacting influences of behavior, internal cognition, and environment. |  | 29 |
| 6066120594 | external locus of control | the perception that chance or outside forces beyond your personal control determine your fate. | 30 | |
| 6066120595 | internal locus of control | the perception that you control your own fate. | 31 | |
| 6066120599 | self-esteem | one's feelings of high or low self-worth. |  | 32 |
