the process by which children incorporate their parents' values into developing superegos EX: a daughter wanting to be just like Mom
ego
the largely conscious "executive" part of personality that mediates among the demands of the id, superego, and reality Ex: realistically satisfying id's (unrealistic pleasure) desires
personality
an individual's characteristic pattern of thinking, feeling, and acting. Ex: distinctiveness and consistancy
free association
in psycoanalysis, a method of exploring the unconscious in which the person relaxes and says whatever comes to mind, no matter how trivial or emarrassing. Ex: painful memories of childhood
psychosexual stages
childhood stages of developmental (oral, anal, phallic, latency, genital) during which the id's pleasure-seeking energies focus on distinct erogenous
external locus of control
the perception that chance or outside forces beyond one's personal control detirmine one's fate.
displacement
defense mechanism that shifts sexual or aggressive impulses toward a more acceptable or less threatening object or person, as when redirecting anger toward a safer outlet EX: Children who fear expressing anger toward parent instead takes it out on a pet
internal locus of control
the perception that one controls one's own fate
learned helplessness
the hoplessness and passive resignation an animal or human learns when unable to avoid repeated aversive events.
superego
the part of personality that represents internalized ideals and provides standards for judgement and for future aspirations Ex:the ideal (a person who is virtuous but ironically guilt-ridden)
