Psych Personality Flashcards
Personality
individual’s characteristic pattern of thinking, feeling, and acting
ID
Contains the libido (Sex drive)
Strives to satisfy basic sexual and aggressive drives
Pleasure principle: demanding immediate gratification
Superego
Ego Ideal
Conscience
Ego ideal: presents internalized ideals
Conscience: Provides standards for judgment and for future aspirations
Ego
The mediator
The largely conscious, “Executive” part of the personality
Reality principle: Satisfying the ID’s Desires in realistic ways
Conscious
Awareness of ones slef and the environment
Unconscious
thoughts, memories, and feelings that are not easily or voluntarily brought into consciousness
Freudian slip
revealing through errors in speech
Denial
refusal to acknowledge
Repression
Pushing threatening events out of conscious memory
Rationalization
Acceptable excuses for unacceptable behavior
Projection
Placing unacceptable qualities of the self onto others
Reaction formation
emotional reaction opposite of actual unacceptable thoughts
Displacement
expressing feelings onto a substitute target
sublimation
Turning unacceptable urges into acceptable behavior