AP Psych Personality Quiz Flashcards

6222098760	Personality	The psychological qualities that bring continuity to an individual's behavior in different situations and at different times.	0
6222098761	Psychoanalysis	Freud's system of treatment for mental disorders -often used to refer to psychoanalytic theory as well.	1
6222098762	Psychoanalytic Theory	Freud's theory of personality.	2
6222098763	Unconscious	In Freudian theory, this is the psychic domain of which the individual is not aware but that is the storehouse of repressed impulses, drives, and conflicts unavailable to consciousness.	3
6222098764	Libido	The Freudian concept of psychic energy that drives individuals to experience sensual pleasure.	4
6222098765	Id	The primitive, unconscious portion of the personality that houses the most basic drives and stores repressed memories.	5
6222098766	Superego	The mind's storehouse of values, including moral attitudes learned from parents and from society; roughly the same as the common notion of conscience.	6
6222098767	Ego	The conscious, rational part of the personality, charged with keeping peace between the superego and the id.	7
6222098768	Psychosexual Stages	Successive, instinctive patterns of associating pleasure with stimulation of specific bodily areas at different times of life.	8
6222098769	Oedipus Complex	According to Freud, a largely unconscious process whereby boys displace an erotic attraction toward their mother to females of their own age and, at the same time, identify with their fathers.	9
6222098770	Identification	The mental process by which an individual tries to become like another person, especially the same sex parent.	10
6222098771	Penis Envy	According to Freud, the female desire to have a penis-a condition that usually results in their attraction to males.	11
6222098772	Fixation	Occurs when psychosexual development is arrested at an immature stage.	12
6222098773	Ego Defense Mechanisms	Largely unconscious mental strategies employed to reduce the experience of conflict or anxiety.	13
6222098774	Repression	An unconscious process that excludes unacceptable thoughts and feelings from awareness and memory.	14
6222098775	Projective Tests	Personality assessment instruments, such as the Rorschach and TAT, which are based on Freud's ego defense mechanism of projection.	15
6222098776	Rorschach Inkblot Technique	A projective test requiring subjects to describe what they sees in a series of ten inkblots.	16
6222098777	Thematic Apperception Test (TAT)	A projective test requiring subjects to make up stories that explain ambiguous pictures.	17
6222098778	Psychic Determinism	Freud's assumption that all our mental and behavioral responses are caused by unconscious traumas, desires, or conflicts.	18
6222098779	Neo-Freudians	Literally "new Freudians"; refers to theorists who broke with Freud but whose theories retain a psychodynamic aspect, especially a focus on motivation as the source of energy for the personality.	19
6222098780	Personal Unconscious	Jung's term for that portion of the unconscious corresponding roughly to the Freudian id.	20
6222098781	Collective Unconscious	Jung's addition to the unconscious, involving a reservoir for instinctive "memories," including the archetypes, which exist in all people.	21
6222098782	Archetypes	The ancient memory images in the collective unconscious. Archetypes appear and reappear in art, literature, and folktales around the world.	22
6222098783	Introversion	The Jungian dimension that focuses on inner experience-one's own thoughts and feelings-making the introvert less outgoing and sociable than the extravert.	23
6222098784	Extraversion	the Jungian personality dimension that involves turning one's attention outward, toward others.	24
6222098785	Basic Anxiety	An emotion, proposed by Karen Horney, that gives a sense of uncertainty and loneliness in a hostile world and can lead to maladjustment.	25
6222098786	Neurotic Needs	Signs of neurosis in Horney's theory, these 10 needs are normal desires carried to a neurotic extreme.	26
6222098787	Inferiority Complex	A feeling of inferiority that is largely unconscious, with its roots in childhood.	27
6222098788	Compensation	Making up for ones's real or imagined deficiencies.	28
6222098789	Traits	Stable personality characteristics that are presumed to exist within the individual and guide his or her thoughts and actions under various conditions.	29
6222098790	Central Traits	According to trait theory, traits that form that basis of personality.	30
6222098791	Secondary Traits	In trait theory, preferences and attitudes.	31
6222098792	Cardinal Traits	Personality components that define people's lives; very few individuals have cardinal traits.	32
6222098793	Self-Actualizing Personalities	Healthy individuals who have met their basic needs and are free to be creative and fulfill their potentialities.	33
6222098794	Fully Functioning Person	Carl Roger's term for a healthy, self-actualizing individual, who has a self-concept that is both positive and congruent with reality.	34
6222098795	Phenomenal Field	Our psychological reality, composed of one's perceptions and feelings.	35
6222098796	Positive Psychology	A recent movement within psychology, focusing on desirable aspects of human functioning, as opposed to an emphasis on psychopathology.	36
6222098797	Observational Learning	The process of learning new responses by watching others' behavior.	37
6222098798	Reciprocal Determinism	The process in which cognitions, behavior, and the environment naturally influence each other.	38
6222098799	Locus of Control	An individual's sense of where his or her life influences originate.	39
9103017839	Thanatos	According to Freud, this was the part of the unconscious that was the driving force behind destructive and aggressive behaviors.	40