personality

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personality

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

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free association

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in psychoanalysis, 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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psychoanalysis

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Freud’s theory of personality that attributed thoughts and action to unconscious motives and conflicts, the techniques used in treating psychological disorders by seeking to expose and interpret unconscious tensions

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unconscious

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according to Freud a reservoir of mostly unacceptable thoughts, wishes, feelings and memories. according to contemporary psychologists, information processing of which we are unaware

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id

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ego

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superego

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psychosexual stages

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Oedipus complex

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identification

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fixation

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defense mechanisms

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repression

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regression

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reaction formation

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projection

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rationalization

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displacement

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sublimation

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denial

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collective unconscious

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projective test

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thematic apperception test

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Rorschach inkblot test

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terror-management theory

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self-actualization

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unconditional positive regard

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self-concept

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trait

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personality inventory

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Minnesota multiphase personality inventory

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empirically derived test

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social-cognitive perspective

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reciprocal determination

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personal control

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external locus of control

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internal locus of control

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positive psychology

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self

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spotlight effect

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self-esteem

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self-serving bias

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individualism

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collectivism