Psychology Flashcards
Sociopath, acts without remorse or guilt
anti social
automatic responses to anxiety or stress
compulsive
Unable to be deeply involved emotionally
histrionic (aka = hysterical)
regards no one else as important, attention seeking
narcissism
pre-occupied with delusions, unfounded beliefs others are trying to harm him
paranoid
takes aggressive actions in an indirect manner, argumentative
passive aggressive
emotionally cold and distant, avoids social interaction, delusions and hallucinations
schizoid
Refuses to perceive unpleasant realities
denial
assigns feelings or beliefs to another person
projection
attributes one’s own unacceptable desires & impulses to someone else
rationalization
Unacceptable behavior expressed in an exaggerated form of an opposite behavior
Reaction Formation
A response to stress in which an individual reverts to a less developmentally mature stage
regression
unconscious exclusion of painful impulses, desires or fears from the conscious mind
repression
redirection of ones feelings from one person to another
transferrence
channeling unaccpetable impulses or energy into socially acceptable activity
sublimation