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personality
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Psychology
Undergraduate 1
09/28/2022

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temperament
Definition
an individual's innate disposition or behavioral style and typical emotional response
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character
Definition
value judgments about an individual's morals, values, and ethical behaviors.
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personality
Definition
our unique and relatively stable pattern of thoughts, feelings, and actions.
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conscious
Definition
in Freudian terms, thoughts or motives that a person is currently aware of
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preconscious
Definition
Freud's term for thoughts,motives,or memories that exist just beneath the surface of awareness and can be called to consciousness when necessary
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unconscious
Definition
freud's terms for the reservoir of largely unacceptable thoughts,feelings,memories,and other information that lies beneath conscious awareness
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id
Definition
operates on pleasure principle
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ego
Definition
operates on reality principle
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superego
Definition
operates on morals
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defense mechanisms
Definition
freud's term for strategies the ego uses to reduce anxiety by unconsciously distorting reality
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psychosexual stages
Definition
freudian theory,five developmental periods (oral,anal,phalicic,latency,and genital) during which particular kinds of pleasures must be gratified if personality development is to proceed normally.
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