Chp 14 Personality

Question 1

The consistent, enduring, and unique characteristics of a person.

Answer 1

Personality

Question 2

Focused largely on the role of our unconscious and our childhood experiences in determining our personality.

Answer 2

Sigmund Freud

Question 3

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

Answer 3

Id

Question 4

The part of the personality that is in touch with reality and strives to meet the demands of the id and superego in socially accept.

Answer 4

Ego

Question 5

The part of the personality that is the source of conscious and inhibits the socially undesirable impulse of the id.

Answer 5

Superego

Question 6

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

Answer 6

Defense mechanisms

Question 7

Involves making up acceptable excuses for behaviors that cause us to feel anxious.

Answer 7

Rationalization

Question 8

When painful memories and unacceptable thoughts and motive are pushed out of consciousness and into the unconscious.

Answer 8

Repression

Question 9

The refusal to accept the reality of something that makes you anxious.

Answer 9

Denial

Question 10

When inner feelings are thrown outside the self and assigned to others.

Answer 10

Projection

Question 11

Involves replacing an unacceptable feeling or urge with an opposite one.

Answer 11

Reaction formation

Question 12

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

Answer 12

Regression

Question 13

When you cannot take out your anger on the source of your frustrations, so you take it out on an unrelated person or object.

Answer 13

Displacement

Question 14

Refers to redirecting a forbidden desire onto a socially acceptable desire.

Answer 14

Sublimation