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free association

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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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personality

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an individual’s characteristic pattern of thinking, feeling, and acting

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psychoanalysis

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Freuds theory of personality that attributes thoughts and actions to unconscious motives and conflicts

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unconscious

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according to freud, a reservoir of mostly unacceptable thoughts, wishes, feelings and memories.

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id

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contains a reservoir of unconscious psychic energy that strives to satisfy basic sexual and aggressive drives (freud)

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ego

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the largely conscious part of personality that according to Freud mediates among the demands of the ID and superego. reality principle

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superego

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the part of personality that according to Freud represents internal judgment and for future aspirations

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psychosexual stages

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the childhood stages of development (oral, anal, phalic,latency,genital) during which the IDs pleasure seeking energies focus on district erogenous zones

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Oedipus complex

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according to Freud, a boys sexual desires toward his mother and feelings of jealousy and hatred to the father

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identification

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the process by which according to Freud children incorporate their parents values into their developing superegos

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fixation

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a lingering focus on pleasure seeking energies at an earlier psychosexual stage in which conflicts were unresolved

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defense mechanisms

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in psychoanalytic theory, the egos protective methods of reducing anxiety by unconsciously distorting reality

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repression

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in psychoanalytic theory, the basic defense mechanism that banishes anxiety-arousing thoughts, feelings and memories from consciousness

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regression

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psychoanalytic defense mechanism in which an individual faced with anxiety retreats to a more infantile psychosexual stage, where some psychic energy remains fixated

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recreation formation

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psychoanalytic defense mechanism by which the ego unconsciously switches unacceptable impulses into their opposites.

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projection

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psychoanalytic defense mechanism by which people disguise their own threatening impulses by attributing them to others

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rationalization

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defense mechanism that offered self-justifying explanations in place of the real, more threatening, unconscious reasons for one’s actions

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displacement

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psychoanalytic 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

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denial

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defense mechanism by which people refuses to believe or even to perceive painful realities

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collective unconscious

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Carl Jung concept of a shared inherited reservoir of memory traces from our species history

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projective test

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a personality test such as the Rorschach or TAT that provides ambiguous stimuli designed to trigger projection of one’s inner dynamics

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thematic apperception test

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a projective test in which people express their inner feelings and interests through the stories they make up about ambiguous scenes

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Rorschach inkblot test

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the most widely used projective test, a set of 10 inkblots, designed by Hermann Rorschach; seeks to identify people’s inner feeling by analyzing their interpretations of the blots

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terror-management theory

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a theory of death-related anxiety; explorers people’s emotional and behavioral responses to reminders of their impending death

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self-actualization

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according to Maslow, one of the ultimate psychological needs that arises after basic psychical and psychological needs are met and self-esteem is achieved.

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unconditional positive regard

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according to Rogers, an attitude of total acceptance toward another person

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self-concept

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all our thoughts and feelings about ourselves

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trait

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a characteristic of behavior or a disposition to feel and act, as assessed by self-report inventories and peer reports

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personality inventory

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a questionnaire on which people respond to items designed to gauge a wide range of feelings and behaviors: used to asses selected personality traits

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Minnesota multiphasic personality inventory

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the most widely used researched and clinically used of all personality tests. originally used to identify emotional disorders

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empirically derived test

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a test developed by testing a pool of items and then selecting those that discriminate between groups

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social-cognitive perspective

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cries behavior as influenced by the interaction between peoples traits and their social context

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reciprocal determinism

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the interacting influences of behavior, internal cognition, and environment

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personal control

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the extent to which people perceive control over their environment rather than feeling helpless

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external locus of control

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the perception that chance or outside forces beyond your personal control determine your fate

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internal locus of control

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the perception that you control your own fate

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learned helplessness

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the hopelessness and passive resignation an animal or human learns when unable to avoid repeated aversive events

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positive psychology

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the scientific study of optimal human functioning; aims to discover and promote strengths and virtues that enable individuals and communities to thrive

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self

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in contemporary psychology assumed to be the center of personality the organizer of our thoughts, feelings and actions

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spotlight effect

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overestimating others noticing and evaluating our appearance, performance, and blunders

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self-esteem

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one’s feelings of high or low self- worth

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self-serving bias

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a readiness to perceive favorably

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