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Chapter 11- Personality
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Psychology
11th Grade
02/08/2010

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Personality
Definition
an individuals unique and relatively consistent pattern of thinking, feeling, and behaving
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unconscious
Definition
thoughts, feelings, urges, and wishes that are difficult to bring to conscious awareness
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preconscious
Definition
information that can easily be made conscious
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conscious
Definition
information in your immediate awareness
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ego
Definition
rational, planful, mediating dimension of personality most in touch with the demands of the external world
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superego
Definition
moralistic, judgmental, perfectionist dimension of personality
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id
Definition
irrational, illogical, impulsive dimension of personality ruled by the pleasure principal
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eros
Definition
the life instinct or basic biological urges
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libido
Definition
emotional energy associated with expressions of sexuality
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Thanatos
Definition
death instinct reflected in aggressive and self destructive actions
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pleasure principal
Definition
motive to obtain pleasure and avoid tension
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reality prinicipal
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the capacity to accommodate external demands by postponing gratification
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perfection principal
Definition
the desire or drive to be perfect
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ego defense mechanisms
Definition
largely unconscious distortions of thoughts that act to reduce anxiety
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repression
Definition
unknowingly excluding anxiety-provoking thoughts, feelings, and memories
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displacement
Definition
unknowingly shifting the target of an emotional urge to a substitute target
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sublimation
Definition
redirecting sexual urges toward productive nonsexual urges
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rationalization
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justifying one's actions or feelings with socially acceptable explanations
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projection
Definition
the attribution of one's own unacceptable urges to others
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reaction formation
Definition
thinking or behaving in a way that is the extreme opposite of unacceptable urges
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denial
Definition
failure to recognize or acknowledge the existence of anxiety provoking info
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undoing
Definition
unknowing repentance that involves neutralizing for an unacceptable action with a second action
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regression
Definition
retreating to a behavior pattern characteristic of an earlier stage
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oral
Definition
birth to one the mouth
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anal
Definition
one to three the anus
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phallic
Definition
three to six the genitals
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latency
Definition
seven to eleven sexual impulses are repressed
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genital
Definition
adolescence genitals
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oedipus complex
Definition
childs unknowing sexual desire for the opposite-sex parent hostile feeling for same sex parent
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