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| an individual's characteristic pattern of thinking, feeling, and acting |
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| stores temporary memories |
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| a reservoir of mostly unacceptable thoughts, wishes, feelings and memories. |
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another method to analyze the unconscious
mind through interpreting the manifest and latent contents of these. |
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| process of free association(chain of thoughts) led to painful, embarrassing unconscious memories. Once retrieved and releases, the patient felt better. |
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| biological impulses (a baby wanted things immediately as they find the need and not thinking about the world around them.)immediate gratification |
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| social restraints. (getting a sense of reality, ethics, knowing what to do without the immediate impulses)provides standards for judgment(the conscience) and for future aspirations |
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| function as the "executive" and mediates the demands of id and superego. |
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| Ego's protective methods of reducing anxiety by unconsciously distorting reality. |
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| banishes anxiety-arousing thoughts, feelings, and memories from conscious |
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| leads an individual faces with anxiety to retreat to a more infantile psychosexual stage |
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| causes the ego to unconsciously switch unacceptable impulses into their opposites. (i hate him b/c i love him.) |
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| leads people to 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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| redirecting anger toward a safer outlet, shifts sexual or aggressive impulses toward a more acceptable or less threatening object or persons. |
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| most popular projective test- 10 inkblots by Hermann Rorschach. to identify ppl's inner feelings by analyzing their interpretations of the blots. |
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| Maslow- we are motivated by a hierarchy of needs. |
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| Carl Rogers-self actualization tendencies. attitude to accept others amidst their failings. |
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| Assessing the self (self-concept) |
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| Rogers asked others to describe how they would like to be (ideal) and who they actually are (real). |
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