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Unconscious Mind

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Reservoir of mostly unacceptable thoughts, wishes, feelings, and memories; free association - ask patients to say whatever comes to their minds; Dream Analysis - interpretation of manifest and latent contents of dreams

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Id

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Satisfy basic sexual and aggresive drives; operates on the pleasure principle

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Ego

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Mediates among the demands of the id, superego, and reality; reality principle

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Superego

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Standards for judgement (the conscience); morality principle

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Personality Development

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Personality forms during the first few years of life divided into psychosexual stages

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Oedipus Complex

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Sexual desires toward mother; feelings of jealousy for father - results in feeling guilt and fear of punishment

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Repression

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Banishes anxiety-arousing thoughts, feelings, and memories from consciousness

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Regression

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Retreats to a more infantile psychosexual stage (childlike behavior)

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Projection

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Disguise threatening impulses by attributing them to others

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Rationalization

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Offer self-justifying explanations

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Reaction Formation

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Express feelings that are the opposite

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Displacement

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Shifts impulse toward less threatening object or person; redirecting toward a safer outlet

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Sublimation

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Rechannel their unacceptable impulses into socially approved activities

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Collective Unconscious

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Common reservoir of images derived from our species’ past

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Archetypes

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Inherited universal human concepts like mother or hero

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Projective Test

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Provides ambiguous stimuli designed to trigger projection of one’s inner dynamics

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Thematic Apperception Test (TAT)

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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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Seeks to identify people’s inner feeling by analyzing their interpretation of the blots

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Identification

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Superego gains strength that incorporates their parents’ values

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Psychoanalysis

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Freud’s theory attributes our thoughts and actions to unconscious motives and conflicts

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