Personality Pt. 1 Vocab Terms

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free association

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method of exploring the unconscious

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personality

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individual’s characteristic pattern of thinking

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psychoanalysis

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attributes thoughts and actions to unconscious motives and conflicts

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unconscious

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reservoir of mostly unacceptable thoughts

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id

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strives to satisfy basic sexual and aggressive drives

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ego

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mediates among the demands of the id, superego, and reality

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superego

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represents internalized ideals and provides standards for judgment

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psychosexual stages

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childhood stages of development

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Oedipus complex

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boy’s sexual desires towards his mother

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identification

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children incorporate their parents’ values into their developing superegos

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fixation

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lingering focus of pleasure-seeking energies

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repression

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banishes anxiety-arousing thoughts

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regression

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individual faced with anxiety retreats to a more infantile psychosexual stage

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reaction formation

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ego unconsciously switches unacceptable impulses

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projection

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people disguise their own threatening impulses

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rationalization

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offers self-justifying explanations in place of the real unconscious reasons for one’s actions

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displacement

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shifts sexual or aggressive impulses toward a more acceptable or less threatening object or person

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collective unconscious

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Carl Jung’s concept of a shared, inherited reservoir of memory traces from our species’ history

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thematic apperception test (TAT)

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people express their inner feelings and interests

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Rorschach inkblot test

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seeks to identify people’s inner feelings by analyzing their interpretations of the blots

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sublimation

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socially unacceptable impulses or idealizations are consciously transformed into socially acceptable actions