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AP Psych Personality

Vocab terms #1-22

TermDefinition
Personality An individual's personal pattern of thinking, feeling, and acting
Free Association Method of releasing unconscious thoughts through speech
Psychoanalysis Theory and therapeutic technique focused on the unconscious
Unconscious Information processing one is unaware of; holds repressed wishes, desires, and thoughts
Id Unconscious part of the mind striving to satisfy basic aggressive/sexual desires
Ego Largely conscious part of personality which works on the reality principle
Superego Part of personality that represents idealism, judgements, guilt, and aspirations
Psychosexual Stages Childhood stages of development focused on erogenous zones
Oedipus Complex Boy's sexual desire for his mother and hatred for his father during the phallic stage
Identification Process where children incorporate other's views to create their own superego
Fixation Lingering focus for unresolved portions of the psychosexual stages
Defense Mechanisms Ego's protective methods against reality and anxiety
Repression Defense mechanism that hides unwanted thoughts in the subconscious
Regression Defense mechanism consisting of one's reversion to childlike behavior; ex. adult throwing a tantrum
Reaction Formation D.M. that results in the expression of feelings opposite of the anxiety-arousing unconscious feelings
Projection D.M. based on seeing (projecting) our feelings about ourselves onto others
Rationalization D.M. which generates self-justifying excuses for our behavior
Displacement D.M. of redirection of repressed motives or feelings onto a substitute object or person
Projective Test A personality test that provides ambiguous stimuli designed to trigger the projection of one's unconscious
Rorshach Inkblot Test A projective test which utilizes inkblots as stimuli; one's interpretation of them is analyzed by the psychologist for results
Thematic Appreception Test A projective test in which people express inner thoughts and feelings through the stories they create around images shown to them
Collective Unconscious Carl Jung's concept of shared, inherited reservoir of memory traces from our species' history
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