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| The psychological qualities that bring continuity to an individual's behavior in different situations and at different times. |
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| Freud's system of treatment for mental disorders, term also used for psychoanalytic theory. |
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| Freud's system of treatment for mental disorders, term also used for psychoanalytic theory. |
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| Freud's theory of personality. |
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| In Freud's theory, it is a psychic domain of which the person is not aware but is the storehouse of repressed impluses, drives, and conflicts unavailable to consciousness. |
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| Freud's concept of, psychic enery that drives people to experience sensual pleasure. |
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| The unconscious portion on the personality that houses the most basic drives and stores repressed memories. |
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| The mind's storehouse of values, including moral attitudes learned from parents and the society; kind of the same thing as the notion of your conscience. |
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| The conscious; rational part of your personality, charged with keeping peace between the superego and the id. |
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| Instinctive patterns of associating pleasure with stimulation of specific bodily areas at different times of life. |
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| Freud says, a unconscious process where boys displace an erotic attraction toward their mother to females of their own age, and, at the same time, identify with their fathers. |
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| The mental process by which an individual tries to become like another person, especially the same-sex parent. |
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| According to Freud, the female desire to have a penis- a condition that usually results in their attraction to males. |
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| occurs when psychosexual development is arrested at an immature stage. Ex. oral stage babies suking thumbs. |
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| Unconscious mental strategies employed to reduce the experience of conflict or anxiety. |
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| An unconscious process that excludes unacceptable thoughts and feelings from awareness and memory. |
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| Personality assessment instruments, such as Roschach and TAT, which are based on Freud's ego defense mechanism of projection. |
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| Roschach Inkblot Technique |
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| A projective test rewuiring subjects to describe what they see in a series of ten inkblots. |
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| Thematic Apperception Test (TAT) |
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| A projective test requiring subjects to make up stories that explain ambiguous pictures. |
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| Freud's assumption that all our mental and behavioral responses are caused by unconsious traumas, desires, and conflicts. |
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| Freud's assumption that all our mental and behavioral responses are caused by unconsious traumas, desires, and conflicts. |
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| The "New Freudians"l refers to theorists who broke with Freud but whose theories reain a psychodynamic aspect, especially a foocus on motication as the source of energy for the personality. |
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| Jung's term for that portion of the unconscious corresponding roughly to the Freudian Id. |
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| Jung's addition to the unconscious, involving a reservoir for instinctive "memories", including the archetypes, which exist in all people. |
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| The ancien memory images in the collective unconscious. Archetypes appear and reappear in art, literature, and folktales around the world. |
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| The Jungian dimension that focuses on inner experience- one's own thoughts and feelings-making the introvert less outgoing and sociable than the extravert. |
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| The Jungian personality dimension involving turning one's attention outward, toward others. |
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| An emotion, proposed by Karen horney, that gives a sense of uncertainty and loneliness in a hostile world and can lead to maladjustment. |
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| Signs of neurosis in Horney's theory, these 10 needs are normal desires carried to a neurotic extreme. |
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| Self-actualizing personalities |
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| Healthy individuals who have met their basic needs and are free to be creative and fulfill their potentialities. |
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| Carl Roger's term for a healthy, self-actualizing individual, who has a self-concept that is both positive and congruent with reality. |
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| Our psychological reality, composed of one's perceptions and feelings. |
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| Focusing on desirable aspects of human functioning, as opposed to an emphasis on psychopathology. |
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| The process of learning new responses by watching other's behavior. |
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| The process in which cognitions, behavior and the environment mutually influence each other. |
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| An individual's sense of where his or her life influences originate. |
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| Four bodily fluids-blood, phlegm, black bile, and yellow bile-that, according to an ancient theory, control personality by thei relative abundance. |
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| The basic and pervasive personality dispositions that are apparent in early childhood and that establish the tempo and mood of the individual's behavior. |
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| Stable personality characteristics that are presumed to exist within the individual and guide his or her thoughts and actions under various conditions. |
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| A trait perspective suggesting that personality is composed of five fundamental personality dimensions: openness to experience, cinscientiouness, extraversion, agreeableness, and neuroticism. |
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| A widely used personality assessment instrument that gives scores on 10 important clinical traits. Aso called the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory. |
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| An attribute of a psychological test that gives consistent results. |
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| An attribute of a psychological test that actually measures what it is being used to measure. |
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| Person-situation controversy |
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| A dispute concerning the relative contribution of personality factors and situational factors in controlling behavior. |
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| Refers to especially important dimensions or clusters of traits that are not only central to a person's personality but are found with essentially the same pattern in many people. |
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| Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) |
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| A widely used personality test based on Jungian types. |
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| Implicit Personality theory |
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| assumptions about personality that are held by people (especially nonpsychologists) to simplify the task of understanding others. |
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| Fundamental Attribution Error |
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| The assumption that another person's behavior, especially clumsy, inappropriate, or otherwise undesirable behavior, is the result of a flaw in the personality, rather than in the situation. |
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| Either switching theories to explain different situations or building one's own theory of personality from pieces borrowed from many perspectives. |
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