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| The distinct and enduring pattern of feelings, motives, thoughts, and behaviors that form an individuals innercore. |
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| Describes both a theory of personality and a method of psychotherapy. |
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| A primitive, unconscious part of personality that accounts for basic biological motivations. |
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| Motivates us to seek immediate gratification and satisfaction of all of our desires. |
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| One's conscious and moral ideals and rejects pleasure in favor of morality and perfection. |
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| Mediates conflict between the id and superego, resulting in compromise between desires and morals. |
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| States that we should strive to meet our needs and desires but only at the appropriate time and place in the appropriate manner. |
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| All children must go through these stages of personality development. |
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| Babies seek pleasure by sucking on things, including pacifiers, nipples, and thumbs. |
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| Babies derive pleasure from the regular buildup and release of feces. |
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| Children derive pleasure from their genitals, and they are often seen playing with themselves in public. |
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| Young children become sexually attracted to the parent of the opposite sex and jealous of the parent of the same sex. |
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| When a boy/girl tries to be like their father/mother. |
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| Tendency to become stuck at an early stage of psychosexual development. |
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| People who bite their nails, chew on pens, or talk on the phone for hours. More likely to become passive, dependent, and demanding. |
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| Toddlers who are toilet trained in a rigid manner either become stubborn and controlling or messy and rebellious. |
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| Too much or too little gratification of self pleasure results in an adult who is vain, arrogant, self-centered, and constantly needs attention. |
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| Unconscious ways in which we minimize anxiety through denial and distortion of reality. |
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| Hiding an unpleasant memory, thought, or impulse in the unconscious, out off our awareness. |
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| Barring anxiety-filled external events from awareness. |
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| Blaming one's improper behavior on others rather than on oneself. |
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| Converting an unacceptable feeling into its opposite. |
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| Devising incorrect excuses for improper feelings and actions. |
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| Replacing socially unacceptable urges with socially acceptable substitute outlets. |
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| Collective Unconsciousness |
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| Jung believed this was a memory bank that includes the thoughts and memories accumulated over the course of human evolution and that it is inherited. |
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| Used to project a person's unconscious needs, wishes, and conflicts onto ambiguous stimuli. |
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| A test in which people are presented with random, symmetrical inkblots and asked to describe what they see. This is said to be unreliable and not valid. |
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| Thematic Apperception Test |
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| A test in which the person is asked to make up a story of what is going on in a black and white picture and the examiner looks for an underlying meaning in the story. |
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| Three Major Criticisms of Psychoalysis |
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| Too pessimistic, not scientific, and scientific research refutes it. |
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