Chapter 10: Personality

Question 1

Personality

Answer 1

persons unique and relatively consistent patterns of thinking, feeling, and behaving

Question 2

Psychoanalysis

Answer 2

forms from the combination of our primal needs and experiences

Question 3

Psychodynamic Theories

Answer 3

theories that explain behavior and personality i terms of unconscious energy

Question 4

ID

Answer 4

part of personality that seeks immediate satisfaction; linked to biological urges; considered immature

Question 5

Libido

Answer 5

psychic energy that fuels sexual instinct of the ID

Question 6

ego

Answer 6

partly conscious rational component of personality that regulates thoughts an behaviors, most in touch with demands of the external world

Question 7

Superego

Answer 7

partially conscious, moralistic part if personality that is formed through parents and social rules

Question 8

Defense mechanisms

Answer 8

methods used by the ego to reduce unconscious anxiety or threatening thoughts from entering consciousness

Question 9

Repression

Answer 9

unconscious exclusion of anxiety provoking thoughts from consciousness

Question 10

Projection

Answer 10

when you repress your own threatening feelings and attribute them to someone else

Question 11

Displacement

Answer 11

redirecting emotional impulses toward another object or person

Question 12

Sublimation

Answer 12

urges are channeled into productive activities

Question 13

Regression

Answer 13

behavior reverts to an earlier stage of development

Question 14

Denial

Answer 14

failure to recognize the existence of the anxiety provoking information

Question 15

Rationalization

Answer 15

justifying actions with social explanations

Question 16

Reaction Formation

Answer 16

acting in a way that is completely opposite than your impulses

Question 17

Intellectualization

Answer 17

ignoring emotional problems by focusing on abstract thoughts in a cold clinical way

Question 18

Freudian Slip

Answer 18

parapraxis; error in speech