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AP Psych Unit 10 A
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Personality | an individual's characteristic pattern of thinking, feeling, and acting |
| Free Association | a method of exploring the unconscious in which the person relaxes and says whatever comes to mind, no matter how trivial or embarrassing |
| Psychoanalysis | Freud's theory of personality that attributes thoughts and actions to unconscious motives and conflicts |
| Unconscious | a reservoir of mostly unacceptable thoughts, wishes, feelings, and memories |
| ID | a reservoir of unconscious psychic energy that strives to satisfy basic sexual and aggressive drives |
| Ego | the largely conscious, "executive" part of personality that mediates among the demands of the id, superego, and reality |
| Superego | the part of the personality that represents internalized ideals and provides standards for judgment (the conscience) and for future aspirations |
| Psychosexual Stages | the childhood stages of development (oral, anal, phallic, latency, genital) durning which the id's pleasure-seeking energies focus on distinct erogenous zones |
| Oedipus Complex | a boy's sexual desires toward his mother and feelings of jealousy and hatred for the rival father |
| Identification | the process by which children incorporate their parents' values into their developing superegos |
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