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| What is the psychological qualities that bring continuity to an individual's behavior in different situations and at different times? |
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| What is Freud's system of treatment for mental disorders? |
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| What are emotionally charged images and thought forms that have universal meaning? |
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| What is an an unconscious behavior used to avoid experiencing unpleasant emotions? |
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| The tendency to mold one's interpretation of the past to fit how events actually turned out. |
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| Which personality test, such as the Rorschach or TAT, provides ambiguous stimuli to trigger projection of one's inner thoughts and feelings? |
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| A lingering focus of pleasure-seeking energies at an earlier psychosexual stage at an earlier psychosexual stage, in which conflicts were unresolved is what? |
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| A psychiatrist who explains pathological behavior as a conflict between underlying psychological forces is using the __________ model. |
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| We each have a perception of our own personality traits. This perception strongly influences our behavior. Psychologists call this perception... |
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| Twin and adoption studies are helpful for assessing the ______ of intelligence |
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| According to Freud what part of consciousness does the process of identification happen? |
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| Characteristic patterns of behavior and conscious motives are called... |
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| Giving priorities to one's own goals over group goals is known as... |
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| One's feelings of high or low self-worth is known as... |
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| According to Sigmund Freud, which of the following defense mechanisms buries threatening or upsetting events outside of consciousness? |
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| What is the perception that you control your own fate? |
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| Internal locus of control |
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| The interaction influences of behavior, internal cognition, and enviroment is known as... |
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| What test is developed by testing a pool of items and then selecting those that discriminate between groups? |
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| All of our thoughts and feelings about ourselves, in answer to the question, "Who am I?" is known as... |
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| The theory of death related anxiety is... |
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| The basic defense mechanism that banishes anxiety-arousing thoughts, feelings, and memories from consciousness is know as... |
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| The childhood stages of development during which the id's pleasure-seeking energies focus on distinct erogenous zones are known as... |
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| According to Freud, a largely unconscious process whereby the boys displace an erotic attraction towards their mother to females of their own age and, at the same time, identify with their fathers. This is known as... |
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| A projective test requiring subjects to describe what they see in a series of ten inkblots is known as... |
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| The ______ is the only part of personality that is present at birth. |
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| The id acts according to the ___________, which is the idea that needs should be met immediately. |
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| The __________ is a term used by Sigmund Freud in his theory of psychosexual stages of development describe a boy's feelings of desire for his mother and jealously and anger towards his father. |
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| Overestimation others' noticing and evaluating our appearance, performance, and blunders is known as... |
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| A readiness to percieve oneself favorably is known as.... |
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| In contemporary psychology, assumed to be the center of personality, the organizer of our thoughts, feelings, and actions is known as... |
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