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Personality

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show an individual's characteristic pattern of thinking, feeling, and acting  
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show in psychoanalysis, a method of exploring the unconscious in which the person relaxes and says whatever comes to mind, no matter how trivial or embarrassing.  
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Psychoanalysis   show
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Unconscious   show
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show contains a reservoir of unconscious psychic energy that, according to Freud, strives to satisfy basic sexual and aggressive drives. Id operates on the pleasure principle, demanding immediate gratification  
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show largely conscious, "executive" part of personality that mediates among the demands of the id, superego, and reality. ego operates on the reality principle, satisfying the id's desires in ways that will realistically bring pleasure rather than pain  
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Superego   show
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Psychosexual stages   show
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show boy's sexual desires toward his mother and feelings of jealousy and hatred for the rival father  
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show process by which children incorporate their parents' values into their developing superegos  
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Fixation   show
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show (PA theory) ego's protective methods of reducing anxiety by unconsciously distorting reality  
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Repression   show
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Reaction formation   show
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Projection   show
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Rationalization   show
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Displacement   show
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Projective Test   show
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Thematic Apperception Test   show
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show most widely used projective test, a set of 10 inkblots, designed by rorschach; seeks to identify people's inner feelings by analyzing their interpretations of the blots  
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Collective unconscious   show
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show (rogers) an attitude of total acceptance toward another person  
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show all our thoughts and feelings about ourselves, in answer to the question, "who am I?"  
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Trait   show
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Personality inventory   show
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show (MMPI) most widely researched and clinically used of all personality tests. Originally developed to identify emotional disorders, aslo now used for other screening purposes  
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Empirically drived test   show
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show views behavior as influenced by the ineteraction between persons and their social context  
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show interacting influences between personality and environmental factors  
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show our sense of controlling our environment rather than feeling helpless  
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Spotlight effect   show
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show one's feelings of high or low self-worth  
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show readiness to perceive oneself favorably  
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Individualism   show
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Collectivism   show
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Terror-management theory   show
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