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| An individual's characteristic pattern of thinking, felling, and acting | ||
| 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 | ||
| Freud's theory of personality that attributes our thoughts and actions to unconscious motives and conflicts | ||
| According to Freud, a reservoir of mostly unacceptable thoughts, wishes, feelings, and memories - according to contemporary psychologists, information processing of which we are not aware | ||
| Contains a reservoir of unconscious psychic energy that, according to Freud, strives to satisfy basic sexual and aggressive drives | ||
| The largely conscious, "executive" part of the personality that, according to Freud, mediates among the demands of the id, superego, and reality | ||
| The part of personality that, according to Freud, represents internalized ideals and provides standards for judgment and future aspirations | ||
| The childhood stages of development during which, according to Freud, the id's pleasure-seeking energies focus on distinct erogenous zones | ||
| According to Freud, a boy's sexual desires toward his mother and feelings of jealousy and hatred for the rival father | ||
| The process by which, according to Freud, children incorporate their parents' values into their developing superegos | ||
| According to Freud, a lingering focus on pleasure-seeking energies at an earlier psychosexual stage, where conflicts were unresolved | ||
| In psychoanalytic theory, the ego's protective methods of reducing anxiety by unconsciously distorting reality | ||
| In psychoanalytic theory, the basic defense mechanism that basishes from consciousness anxiety-arousing thoughts, feelings, and memories | ||
| Defense mechanism in which an individual faced with anxiety retreats to a more infantile psychosexual stage, where some psychic energy remains fixated | ||
| Psychoanalytic defense mechanism by which the ego unconsciously switches unacceptable impulses into their opposites | ||
| Psychoanalytic defense mechanism by which people disguise their own threatening impulses by attributing them to others | ||
| Defense mechanism that offers self-justifying explanations in place of the real, more threatening unconscious reasons for one's actions | ||
| Psychoanalytic defense mechanism that shifts sexual or aggressive impulses toward a more acceptable object or person | ||
| A personality test that provides ambiguous stimuli designed to trigger projection of one's inner dynamics | ||
| A projective test in which people express their inner feelings and interests through the stories they make up about amiguous pictures | ||
| The most widely used projective test, a set of 10 inkblots - seeks to identify people's inner feelings by analyzing their interpretations of the blots | ||
| Carl Jung's concept of a shared, inherited reservoir of memory traces from our species' history | ||
| According to Maslow, the ultimate psychological need that arises after basic physical and psychological needs are met and self-esteem is achieved | ||
| According to Rogers, an attitude of total acceptance toward another person | ||
| All our thoughts and feelings about ourselves, in answer to the question "Who am I?" | ||
| A characteristic pattern of behavior or a disposition to feel and act, as assessed by self-report inventories and peer reports | ||
| A questionnaire on which people respond to items designed to gauge a wide range of feelings and behaviors | ||
| The most widely researched and clinically used of all personality tests - originally designed to identify emotional disorders | ||
| A test developed by testing a pool of items and then selecting those that discriminate between groups | ||
| Views behavior as influenced by the interaction between persons (and their thinking) and their social context | ||
| The interacting influences between personality and environmental factors | ||
| Our sense of controlling our environment rather than feeling helpless | ||
| The perception that chance or outside forces beyond one's personal control determine one's fate | ||
| The perception that one controls one's own fate | ||
| The hopelessness and passive resignation an animal or human learns when unable to avoid repeated aversive events | ||
| The scientific study of optimal human functioning - aims to discover and promote strengths and virtues that enable individuals and communities to thrive | ||
| Overestimating others' noticing and evaluating our appearance, performance, and blunders | ||
| One's feelings of high or low self-worth | ||
| A readiness to perceive oneself favorably | ||
| Giving priority to one's own goals over group goals, and defining one's identity in terms of personal attributes rather than group identifications | ||
| Giving priority to the goals of the group and defining one's identity accordingly | ||
| Proposes that faith in one' worldview and the pursiut of self-esteem provide protection against a deeply rooted fear of death |
