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Unit 10 quiz 1
Personality
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| an individual's characteristic pattern of thinking, feeling, and acting | personality |
| theories that view personality with a focus on the unconscious and the importance of childhood experiences | Psychodynamic theories |
| theory of personality that attributes thoughts and actions to unconscious motives | psychoanalysis |
| a reservoir of mostly unacceptable thoughts, wishes, and memories | unconscious |
| the person says whatever comes to mind no matter how embarrassing | free association |
| pleasure principle, instant gratification | id |
| reality principle, conscious you | ego |
| moral principle, ideal | superego |
| the childhood stages of development | psychosexual stages |
| a boy's sexual desire toward his mother and jealousy towards the father | Oedipus complex |
| the process where children incorporate their parents' values into their developing superegos | identification |
| a lingering focus of pleasure seeking energies at an earlier psychosexual stages, in which conflicts were unresolved | fixation |
| the basic defense mechanism that banishes from consciousness anxiety arousing thoughts feelings and memories | repression |
| the ego's protective methods of reducing anxiety by unconsciously distorting reality | defense mechanisms |
| concept of shared inherited reservoir of memory traces from our species' history | collective unconscious |
| a personality test that provides ambiguous images designed to trigger projection of one's inner dynamics | projective test |
| a projective test in which people express their inner feelings and interests through the stories they make up about ambiguous scenes | thematic apperception test (TAT) |
| a projective test that uses inkblots to seek to identify people's inner feelings by analyzing their interpretations of the blots | Rorschach inkblot test |
| theories that view personality with a focus on the potential for healthy personal growth | humanistic theories |
| pyramid of human needs | hierarchy of needs |
| the motivation to fulfill one's potential | self-actualization |
| the striving for identity, meaning, and purpose beyond the self | self-transcendence |
| a caring, accepting, non judgmental attitude, believed to help people develop self-awareness and self-acceptance | unconditional positive regard |
| all our thoughts and feelings about ourselves | self-concept |
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