Psych Unit 8 Exam

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

childhood sexuality and unconscious motivations influence personality

a reservoir of mostly unacceptable thoughts, wishes, feelings, and memories

a method of exploring the unconscious in which the person relaxes and says whatever comes to mind, no matter how trivial or embarrassing

reservoir of unconscious psychic energy that strives to satisfy basic sexual and aggressive drives

he largely conscious, “executive” part of personality that mediates among the demands of the id, superego, and reality

the part of personality that represents internalized ideals and provides standards for judgment and for future aspirations

the childhood stages of development (oral, anal, phallic, latency, genital) during which the id’s pleasure-seeking energies focus on distinct erogenous zones

a boy’s sexual desires toward his mother and feelings of jealousy and hatred for the rival father

the process by which children incorporate their parents’ values into their developing superego

a lingering focus of pleasure-seeking energies at an earlier psychosexual stage, in which conflicts were unresolved

the ego’s protective methods of reducing anxiety by unconsciously distorting reality

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

personality test that provides ambiguous images 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 ambiguous scenes

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

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

the motivation to fulfill one’s potential

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

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

originally developed to identify emotional disorders, this test is now used for many other screening purposes

a test created by selecting from a pool of items those that discriminate between groups

conscientiousness, agreeableness, neuroticism, openness, and extraversion

views behavior as influenced by the interaction between people’s traits and their social context

the interacting influences of behavior, internal cognition, and environment

assumed to be the center of personality, the organizer of our thoughts, feelings, and actions

overestimating others’ noticing and evaluating our appearance, performance, and blunders

one’s feelings of high or low self-worth

one’s sense of competence and effectiveness

a readiness to perceive oneself favorably