Jung

Question 1

analytical psychology

Answer 1

Jung’s unique brand of psychology which emphasizes the complex interplay between oppositional forces within the psyche and the ways in which these internal conflicts affect personality development.

Question 2

archetypes

Answer 2

Universal themes or symbols that can be activated by forces operating in the psyche, thereby generating visions that are projected onto current experiences.

Question 3

collective unconscious

Answer 3

The depository of instincts and archetypes that go beyond personal experience. These transpersonal experiences are the residue of human evolutionary development and can be activated under the proper conditions.

Question 4

complex

Answer 4

Collection of thoughts united by a common feeling.

Question 5

dominant characteristics

Answer 5

In Jung’s theory, developed, differentiated, and conscious parts of the psyche.

Question 6

ego

Answer 6

Force in the personality responsible for feelings of identity and continuity.

Question 7

extraverted feeling type

Answer 7

Individual characterized positively by an acceptance of the standards of society and negatively by a change in emotions from situation to situation, along with an indiscriminate yielding to the expectations of others.

Question 8

extraverted intuitive type

Answer 8

Individual characterized

positively by a quick grasp of the creative possibilities in various ventures

negatively by impatience and flightiness.

Question 9

extraverted sensing type

Answer 9

Individual characterized

positively by an appreciation for the arts

negatively by crude pleasure seeking.

Question 10

extraverted thinking type

Answer 10

Individual characterized in a positive way by an ability to organize masses of facts into a coherent theory and in a negative way by a selfish and exploitative attitude toward others.

Question 11

inferior characteristics

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In Jung’s theory, underdeveloped, undifferentiated, and unconscious parts of the psyche.

Question 12

introverted feeling type

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Individual characterized positively by intense feelings of sympathy for others who have experienced misfortune and negatively by shyness and inaccessibility.

Question 13

introverted intuitive type

Answer 13

Individual characterized

positively by the ability to envision the future

negatively by an inability to communicate effectively with others.

Question 14

introverted sensing type

Answer 14

Individual characterized

positively by the intensity of subjective sensations

negatively by oversensitivity and obtuseness.

Question 15

introverted thinking type

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Individual characterized positively by imagination and an ability to think originally and boldly and negatively by social ineptness.

Question 16

irrational functions

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Modes of apprehending the world without evaluating it. For Jung, sensation and intuition were the irrational (nonrational) functions.

Question 17

life process energy

Answer 17

All of the urges that are derived from conflict between forces in the psyche.

Question 18

mandala

Answer 18

Symbolic representation of the self or of the world.

Question 19

method of amplification

Answer 19

Therapeutic technique in which the patient and analyst continue to reassess and reinterpret the same symbols in an attempt to broaden their understanding of them.

Question 20

persona

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Archetype consisting of the role human beings play in order to meet the demands of others. The persona also allows them to express their innermost feelings in ways acceptable to other people.

Question 21

personal unconscious

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In Jung’s theory, the region that contains all of the personal experiences that have been blocked from awareness.

Question 22

principle of entropy

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In Jungian theory, the idea that energy is automatically redistributed in the psyche in order to achieve equilibrium or balance.

Question 23

principle of equivalence

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The idea that energy expended in one part of the psyche will be compensated for by an equal amount of energy in the same or different form in another part of the psyche. Thus, energy is neither created nor lost but simply shifted from one region of the psyche to another.

Question 24

principle of opposites

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The idea that the energy that propels personality and behavior is derived from the interplay between opposite forces within the psyche.

Question 25

principle of synchronicity

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Belief that there is an acausal order in the world that has meaning and that goes beyond causality.

Question 26

psyche

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A construct postulated by Jung to represent all of the interacting systems within human personality that are needed to account for the mental life and behavior of the person.

Question 27

rational functions

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Modes of making judgments or evaluations of events in the world. For Jung, thinking and feeling were rational functions.

Question 28

self

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In Jung’s theory, an archetype that leads people to search for ways of maximizing the development of their potential.

Question 29

self-realization

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Process that involves the healthy development of people’s capabilities, enabling them to fulfill their own unique natures.

Question 30

shadow

Answer 30

The inferior, evil, and repulsive side of human nature.

Question 31

symbol

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In Jung’s psychology, a representation of a psychic fact. Each symbol was thought to have multiple meanings and to be incapable of being understood completely.

Question 32

theory of psychological types

Answer 32

Theory proposed by Jung in which people can be classified into eight types, on the basis of a combination of attitudes and functions.

Question 33

transcendent function

Answer 33

The process by which a conflict is resolved by bringing opposing forces into balance with each other through understanding.

Question 34

word association test

Answer 34

Therapeutic technique in which patients are presented with stimulus words and asked to give responses to them. Greater time latencies in responding are assumed to reflect the existence of underlying problems.