Unit sum

An individual’s characteristic pattern of thinking, feeling, and acting

Theories that view personality with a focus on the unconscious and the importance of childhood experiences.

Freud’s theory of personality that attributes thoughts and actions to unconscious motives and conflicts; the techniques used in treating psychological disorders by seeking to expose and interpret unconscious tensions.

According to Freud, a reservoir of mostly unacceptable thoughts, wishes, feelings, and memories. According to contemporary psychologists, information processing of which we are unaware.

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.

A reservoir of unconscious psychic energy that, according to Freud, strives to satisfy basic sexual and aggressive drives. The id operates on the pleasure principle, demanding immediate gratification.

The largely conscious, executive part of personality that, according to Freud, mediates among the demands of the id, superego, and reality. The ego operates on the reality principle, satisfying the id’s desires in ways that will realistically bring pleasure rather than pain.

The part of personality that, according to Freud, represents internalized ideals and provides standards for judgment (the conscience) and for future aspirations.

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.

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, accordion to Freud, children incorporate their parents’ values into their developing superegos.

In psychoanalytic theory, according to Freud, a lingering focus of pleasure-seeking energies at an earlier psychosexual stage, in which 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 banishes from consciousness anxiety-arousing thoughts, feelings, and memories.

Carl Jung’s concept of a shared, inherited reservoir of memory traces from our species’ history.

A personality test, such as the Rorschach, that provides ambiguous images designed to trigger projection of one’s inner dynamics.

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A projective test in which people express their inner feelings and interests through the stories they make up about ambiguous scenes.

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.

A theory of death-related anxiety; explores people’s emotional and behavioral responses to reminders of their impending death.

Theories that view personality with a focus on the potential for healthy personal growth.

Maslow’s pyramid of human needs, beginning at the base with physiological needs that must first be satisfied before higher-level safety needs and then psychological needs become active.

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.

According to Maslow, the striving for identity, meaning, and purpose beyond the self.

A caring, accepting, nonjudgmental attitude, which Carl Rogers believed would help people develop self-awareness and self-acceptance.

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 in certain ways, 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; used to assess selected personality traits.

The most widely researched and clinically used of all personality tests. Originally developed to identify emotional disorders (still considered its most appropriate use), this test is now used for many other screening purposes.

A test (such as the MMPI) created by selecting from a pool of items those that discriminate between groups.

Views behavior as influenced by the interaction between people’s traits (including their thinking) and their social context.

Focuses on the effects of learning on our personality development.

The interacting influences of behavior, internal cognition, and environment.

In contemporary psychology, assumed to be the center of personality, the organizer of personality, the organizer of our thoughts, feelings, and actions.

Overestimating others’ noticing and evaluating our appearance, performance, and blunders (as if we presume a spotlight shines on us).

One’s feelings of high or low self-worth.

A readiness to perceive oneself favorably.

Excessive self-love and self-absorption.

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 one’s group (often one’s extended family or work group) and defining one’s identity accordingly.

Need or desire that energizes and directs behavior

Complex behavior that is rigidly patterned throughout a species and is unlearned.

Basic bodily requirement.

Idea that a physiological need creates an aroused state that motivates an organism to satisfy the need.

Tendency to maintain a balanced or constant internal state; the regulation of any aspect of body chemistry, such as blood glucose, around a particular level.

Positive or negative environmental stimulus that motivates behavior.

The principle that performance increases with arousal only up to a point, beyond which performance decreases.

Maslow’s pyramid of human needs, beginning at the base with physiological needs that must first be satisfied before higher-level safety needs and then psychological needs become active.

The form of sugar that circulates in the blood and provides the major source of energy for body tissues. When its level is low, we feel hunger.

The point at which your weight thermostat may be set. When your body falls below this weight, increased hunger and a lowered metabolic rate may combine to restore lost weight.

The body’s resting rate of energy output.

A body mass index measurement of 30+.

Having no sexual attraction to others.

The most important male sex horome. Both males and females have it, but the additional testosterone in males stimulates the growth of the male sex organs during the fetal period and the development of the male sex characteristics during puberty.

Sex horomones, such as estradiol, that contribute to female sex characteristics and are secreted in greater amounts by females than by males. Estrogen levels peak during ovulation. In nonhuman mammals, this promotes sexual receptivity.

The four stages of sexual responding described by Masters and Johnson-excitement, plateau, orgasm, and resolution.

In human sexuality, a resting period that occurs after orgasm, during which a person cannot achieve another orgasm.

The need to build relationships and to feel part of a group.

Deliberate social exclusion of individuals or groups.

Excessive self-love and self-absorption.

Desire for significant accomplishment, for mastery of skills or ideas, for control, and for attaining a high standard.

In psychology, passion and perseverance in the pursuit of long-term goals.

A response of the whole organism, involving physiological arousal, expressive behaviors, and conscious experience.

Theory that our experience of emotion is our awareness of our physiological responses to an emotion-arousing stimulus. Stimulus then arousal then emotion.

The theory that an emotion-arousing stimulus simultaneously triggers physiological responses and the subjective experience of emotion.

The Schachter-Singer theory that to experience emotion one must be physically aroused and cognitively label the arousal.

Machine used in attempts to detect lies that measures several of the physiological responses (such as perspiration, heart rate, and breathing changes), accompanying emotion.

the idea that using the muscles involved in a certain emotion will make you feel that emotion

the tendency of behavior to influence our own and others' thoughts, feelings, and actions

1A state of psychological tension or. strain

a series of physical reactions to stress. There are three stages: the alarm reaction, the resistance stage, and the exhaustion stage

under stress, people (especially women) often provide support to others (tend) and bond with and seek support from others (befriend)

Branch of psychology that investigates the psychological factors related to wellness and illness

the study of how psychological, neural, and immunologic processes interact and affect human health and behavior.

the clogging of the vessels that. nourish the heart muscle

Friedman and Rosenman's term for competitive, hard-driving, impatient, verbally aggressive, and anger-prone people.

Friedman and Rosenman's term for easygoing, relaxed people

maintains that "releasing" aggressive energy (through action or fantasy) relieves aggressive urges

sustained exercise that increases heart and lung fitness

a type of meditation in which a person focuses attention on his or her breathing and thoughts, feelings, and sensations are experienced freely as they arise.

the tendency for people to be more willing to help or aid others when they feel good about themselves or are already in a good mood.

the scientific study of human flourishing, and an applied approach to optimal functioning

self perceived happiness or satisfaction with life

our tendency to form. judgments (of sounds, of lights, of income) relative to a neutral. level defined by our prior experience.

the perception by an individual that the amount of a desired resource (e.g., money, social status) he or she has is less than some comparison standard