Personality

Question 1

Unconscious Mind

Answer 1

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

Question 2

Id

Answer 2

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

Question 3

Ego

Answer 3

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

Question 4

Superego

Answer 4

Standards for judgement (the conscience); morality principle

Question 5

Personality Development

Answer 5

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

Question 6

Oedipus Complex

Answer 6

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

Question 7

Repression

Answer 7

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

Question 8

Regression

Answer 8

Retreats to a more infantile psychosexual stage (childlike behavior)

Question 9

Projection

Answer 9

Disguise threatening impulses by attributing them to others

Question 10

Rationalization

Answer 10

Offer self-justifying explanations

Question 11

Reaction Formation

Answer 11

Express feelings that are the opposite

Question 12

Displacement

Answer 12

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

Question 13

Sublimation

Answer 13

Rechannel their unacceptable impulses into socially approved activities

Question 14

Collective Unconscious

Answer 14

Common reservoir of images derived from our species’ past

Question 15

Archetypes

Answer 15

Inherited universal human concepts like mother or hero

Question 16

Projective Test

Answer 16

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

Question 17

Thematic Apperception Test (TAT)

Answer 17

People express their inner feelings and interests through the stories they make up about ambiguous scenes

Question 18

Rorschach Inkblot Test

Answer 18

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

Question 19

Identification

Answer 19

Superego gains strength that incorporates their parents’ values

Question 20

Psychoanalysis

Answer 20

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