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| A relatively stable pattern of behaving, feeling, and thinking that distinguishes one person from another |
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| Psychological tests in which individuals answer questions about themselves usually by responding yes or no, true or false |
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| Psychological test that involves the use of unstructured or ambigious stimuli in an effort to assess personality |
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| The tendancy to accept generalized personality descriptions as acurate descriptions of oneself |
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| Summary term that describes the tendancy to behave, feel, and think in ways that are consistent across different situations |
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| Person is faced with a fact that is too uncomftorable to accept and rejects it instead, insisting that it is not true despite what may be overwhelming evidence |
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| Defense mechanism that transfers affect or reaction from the original object to some more acceptable one |
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| Defense mechanism by which your own traits and emotions are attributed to someone else |
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| Defense mechanism by which the motivation is correct by explaining your actions and feelings in a way that is not threatening |
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| Defense mechanism in which a person unconciously develops attitudes and behavior that are oppisite of unacceptable repressed desires and serve to conceal them |
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| Defense mechanism in which you flea from reality by assumiong a more infible state |
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| Modifying the natural expression or instinct (esp. a sexual one) that is socially acceptable |
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| Excluding desires and impulses from one's conciousness and holding or subduing them in the unconcious |
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| What is the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory and the California Personality Inventory? |
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| What are the important feautures of a projective test such as the Rorschah inkblot test? |
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| According to Freud, what are the three seperate but interacting elements of our mind? |
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THE ID- most basic element of personality, source of all instincts and operates on the pleasure principle
EGO- Operates according to realistic principle + serves to satisfy ID + EGO
SUPEREGO- Incorporates parental and societal standards in what is commonly reffered to as the concious as well as the idealistic ego ideal |
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| What are Freud's Five Physcosexual Stages of Development? |
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