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NSU Psych 101
NSU Chapter 11
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personality | a pattern of enduring, distinctive thoughts, emotions and behaviors that characterize the way an individual adapts to the world. |
id | The Freudian structure of personality that consists of unconscious drives and is the individual's reservoir of psychic energy |
ego | the Freudian structure of personality that deals with the demands of reality |
superego | The Freudian structure of personality that harshly judges the morality of our behavior |
defense mechanisms | The ego's protective methods for reducing anxiety by unconsciously distorting reality |
repression | The master defense mechanism; the ego pushes unacceptable impulses out of awareness, back into the unconscious mind |
rationalization | the ego replaces a less acceptable motive with a more acceptable one |
displacement | the ego shifts feelings toward an unacceptable object to another, more acceptable object |
sublimation | the ego replaces an unacceptable impulse with a socially acceptable one |
projection | the ego attributes personal shortcomings, problems and faults to others |
reaction formation | the ego transforms an unacceptable motive into its opposite |
denial | the ego refuses to acknowledge anxiety-producing realities |
regression | the ego seeks the security of an earlier developmental period in the face of stress |
trait | something that endures |
trait theories | theories about something that endures |
state | something that changes |