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personality

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a pattern of behaviour and emotions that characterizes someone

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traits

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behaving, thinking and feeling habits

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psychoanalysis theory

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theory of personality that shows unconscious motives

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three systems of personality and describe

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id - meeting basic needs
ego - dealing with reality
superego - adding morals

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defence mechanisms are used by — to do what

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used by your ego to prevent unconscious anxiety from entering consciousness

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5 defence mechanisms and explain

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repression - threatening idea is blocked from memory
projection - a person’s own feelings are put onto someone else
displacement - people direct their feelings towards something that is not the real object of their feelings
regression - person goes back to previous phase of psychological development
denial - person refuses to admit

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