Psych Personality Flashcards

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Personality

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

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ID

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Contains the libido (Sex drive)
Strives to satisfy basic sexual and aggressive drives
Pleasure principle: demanding immediate gratification

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3
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Superego

Ego Ideal

Conscience

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Ego ideal: presents internalized ideals
Conscience: Provides standards for judgment and for future aspirations

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Ego

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The mediator
The largely conscious, “Executive” part of the personality
Reality principle: Satisfying the ID’s Desires in realistic ways

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5
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Conscious

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Awareness of ones slef and the environment

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Unconscious

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thoughts, memories, and feelings that are not easily or voluntarily brought into consciousness

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7
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Freudian slip

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revealing through errors in speech

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Denial

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refusal to acknowledge

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9
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Repression

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Pushing threatening events out of conscious memory

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10
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Rationalization

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Acceptable excuses for unacceptable behavior

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Projection

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Placing unacceptable qualities of the self onto others

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Reaction formation

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emotional reaction opposite of actual unacceptable thoughts

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13
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Displacement

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expressing feelings onto a substitute target

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14
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sublimation

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Turning unacceptable urges into acceptable behavior

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