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

a. tempermant

b. personality

c. emotions

Founder of psychoanalysis

A. Freud

B. Maslow

C. Jung

Method of exploring the unconscious in which the person relaxes and says whatever comes to mind, no matter how trivial or embarrassing

a. word association

b. free appreception

c. free association

Region of the mind holding information that is not conscious but is retrievable into conscious awareness

a. conscious

b. preconscious

c. unconscious

The thoughts and feelings one is currently aware of

a. conscious

b. preconscious

c. unconscious

Region of the mind that is a houses our most unacceptable thoughts, wishes, feelings, and memories

a. conscious

b. preconscious

c. unconscious

Basic sexual and aggressive drives; “pleasure principle” - demanding immediate gratification

a. id

b. ego

c. superego

• Largely conscious, mediates among the demands of the id, superego, and reality
• Operates on the reality principle
• mediator

a. id

b. ego

c. superego

• The part of personality that consists of internalized ideals and standards for judgment
• Person should do--not what they want to do
• "super" hero

a. id

b. ego

c. superego

The ego’s protective methods of reducing anxiety by unconsciously distorting reality

a. defense protection

b. defense mechanisms

c. protection mechanisms

Puts anxiety-arousing thoughts, feelings, and memories into the unconscious mind

a. regression

b. repression

c. projection

refusal to admit that something unpleasant is happening

a. reaction formation

b. denial

c. rationalization

Allows an anxious person to retreat to a more comfortable, infantile stage of life

a. rejection

b. regression

c. displacement

Displaces real, anxiety-provoking explanations with more comforting justifications for one’s actions

a. denial

b. rationalization

c. repression

Disguises threatening feelings of guilty anxiety by attributing the problems to others

a. displacement

b. projection

c. reaction formation

Reverses an unacceptable impulse, causing the person to express the opposite of the anxiety-provoking, unconscious feeling

a. reaction formation

b. repression

c. regression

Shifts an unacceptable impulse toward a more acceptable or less threatening object or person

a. denial

b. projection

c. displacement

psychosexual: Gratification comes from bowel and bladder functions

a. anal

b. oral

c. genital

psychosexual: Pleasure comes from chewing, biting, and sucking

a. oral

b. anal

c. latency

psychosexual:

• The pleasure zone shifts to the genitals.
• Boys felt love for their mothers and hatred, fear, or jealousy for father

a. latency

b. genital

c. phallic

psychosexual:

• Sexual feelings are dormant—repressed
• Instead of fearing same-sex parent, they start to “buddy up” to Mom and Dad
• a. genital
• b. latency
• c. oral

psychosexual: Instead of having sexual feelings for parents—now have sexual feelings toward others

a. genital

b. oral

c. anal

Neo-Freudian who thought social tensions were more important than sexual tensions in the development of personality

a. Jung

b. Adler

c. Maslow

Neo-Freudian who believed that humans share a collective unconscious

a. Maslow

b. Jung

c. Adler

proposed the hierarchy of needs--a pyramid about the needs of humans

a. Jung

b. Adler

c. Maslow

Projective test in which people express their inner feelings and interests through the stories they make up about ambiguous scenes

a. TAT

b. Rorschach Inkblot

c. Mind Story

Personality test that seeks to identify people’s inner feelings by analyzing their interpretations of 10 of these

a. TAT

b. Rorschach Inkblot

c. Picture Mind

Humanistic psychologist who stressed the importance of acceptance, genuineness, and empathy in fostering human growth

a. Jung

b. Rogers

c. Maslow

• According to Rogers, an attitude of total acceptance toward another person
• Attitude values others even though we are aware of their faults and failings

a. unconditional love

b. positive regard

c. unconditional positive regard

Freely expressing one’s feelings and not being afraid to disclose details about oneself

a. disclosure

b. geniuneness

c. empathy

• Sharing thoughts and understanding
• Listening and reflecting the other person’s feelings

a. apathy

b. sympathy

c. empathy