Chapter 14 Theories Of Personality (1)

Question 1

Personality

Answer 1

The consistent, enduring, and unique characteristics of a person

Question 2

Sigmund Freud

Answer 2

Psychoanalytic theories that emphasize the motives hidden in the unconscious.

Question 3

Id

Answer 3

The part of the unconscious personality that contains our needs, drives, instincts, and repressed material

Question 4

Ego

Answer 4

The part of the personality that is in touch with reality and strives to meet the demands of the Id and the superego in socially acceptable ways

Question 5

Superego

Answer 5

The part of the personality that is the source of conscience and inhibits the socially undesirable impulses of the id

Question 6

Defense mechanisms

Answer 6

Certain specific means by which the ego unconsciously protects itself against unpleasant impulses or circumstances

Question 7

Rationalism

Answer 7

Making up acceptable excuses for behaviors that cause us to feel anxious

Question 8

Repression

Answer 8

When a person has painful memories or unacceptable thoughts and motives that cause the ego too much anxiety, they may push those thoughts or urges out of consciousness and down into the unconscious. Forgetting the hung that disturbed without realizing it.

Question 9

Denial

Answer 9

Refusing to accept the reality of something that makes you anxious.

Question 10

Projection

Answer 10

A way the ego avoids anxiety by believing that impulses coming from within are really coming from other people

Question 11

Reaction formation

Answer 11

Replacing an unacceptable feeling or urge with an opposite one

Question 12

Regression

Answer 12

Going back to an earlier and less mature pattern of behavior.

Question 13

Displacement

Answer 13

When you can’t take out your anger on the source of your frustrations so you displace it or take it out on an unrelated person.

Question 14

Sublimination

Answer 14

Redirecting a forbidden desire into a socially acceptable desire