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| a person's characteristic pattern of thinking, feeling, and acting. |
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| a method of exploring the unconscious in which the person relaxes and says whatever comes to mind, no matter how trivial or embarrassing. |
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| Freud's theory of personality that attributes thoughts and actions to unconscious motives and conflicts. |
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| a reservoir of mostly unacceptable thoughts, wishes, feelings, and memories. Information processing of which we are unaware. |
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| largely conscious, executive part of personality that mediates among the demand of the id, superego, and reality. Ego operates on the reality principle. |
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| part of personality that represents internalized ideals and provides standards for judgment (conscious) and for future aspirations |
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| a boy's sexual desires toward his mother and feelings of jealously and hatred for the rival father. |
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| the process by which children incorporate their parents' values into their developing superegos. |
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| a lingering focues of pleasure-seeking energies at an earlier psychosexual sage in which conflicts were unresolved |
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| the ego's protective methods of reducing or redirecting anxiety by unconsciously distorting reality. |
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| banishes anxiety-arousing thoughts, feelings, and memories from consciousness. |
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| a person faced with anxiety retreats to a more infantile psychosexual stage, where some pschic energy remains fixated. |
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| ego unconsciously switches unacceptable impulses into their anxiety-arousing unconscious feelings |
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| people disguise their own threatening impulses by attributing them to others. |
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| offers self-justifying explanations in place of the real, more threatening unconscious reasons for one's actions. |
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| shifts sexual or aggressive impuses toward a more acceptable or less threatening object or person, as when redirecting anger toward a safer outlet. |
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| people re-channel their unaccetable impulses into socially approved activities |
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| when a person refuses to believe or even to perceive painful realities |
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| Carl Jung's concept of a shared, inherited reservoir of memory taces from our species' history. |
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| theory of death-related anxiety; explores people's emotional & behavioral responses to reminders of their impending death. |
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| a psychological need that arises after basic physical and psychological needs are met and self-esteem is achieved; the motivation to fulfill one's potential. |
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| unconditional positive regard |
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| according to Rogers, an attitude of total acceptance toward another person. |
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| meaning, purpose, and communion beyond the self. |
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| all our thoughts and feelings about ourselves in answer to the question "who am I?" |
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| a characteristic pattern of behavior or disposition to feel and act, as assessed by self-report inventories and peer reports. |
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| statistical procedure that identifies clusters of correlated test items that tap basic components of intelligence. |
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| the interacting influences of behavior, internal cognition and environment. |
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| the extent to which people perceive control over their environment rather than feeling helpless. |
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| the scientific study of optimal human functioning; aims to discover and promote strengths and virtues that enable individuals and communities to thrive. |
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| overestimating others noticing and evaluating our appearance, performance, and blunders. |
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