Unit 10 - Module 32

Question 1

Personality

Answer 1

An individual’s characteristic pattern of thinking, feeling, and acting/ dynamic interplay of conscious and uncosncious

Question 2

Psychodynamic Theories

Answer 2

events in our childhood have a significant influence on our adult lives, shaping our personality

Question 3

Free Association

Answer 3

A method of exploring the unconscious in which the person relaxes and says whatever comes to mind

Question 4

Psychoanalysis

Answer 4

a technique that allows our unconscious thoughts, feelings, conflicts to surface

Question 5

Unconscious

Answer 5

According to Freud, a reservoir of mostly unacceptable thoughts, wishes, feelings, and memories

Question 6

Id

Answer 6

The id is a part of the unconscious that contains all the urges and impulses,

Question 7

Ego

Answer 7

The largely executive part of personality that mediates the demands of the unconscious

Question 8

Superego

Answer 8

the ethical component of the personality and provides the moral standards by which the ego operates.

Question 9

Psychosexual Stages

Answer 9

Oral - mouth
Anal - bowels and bladder
Phallic - genitals (Oedipus/ Electra complex is to desire our opposite sex parent)
Latency - dormant feelings
Genital - sexual maturation

Question 10

Oedipus Complex

Answer 10

A boy’s sexual desires toward his mother and feelings of jealously and hatred for the rival father

Question 11

Identification

Answer 11

The process by which children incorporate their parents’ values into their developing superegos

Question 12

Fixation

Answer 12

Lingering focus of pleasure-seeking energies at an earlier psychosexual stag, in which conflicts were unresolved.

Question 13

Defense Mechanisms

Answer 13

Denial - Refusal to accept reality
Repression - hide true feelings
Projection - attributing feelings to someone else
Displacement - lash out at an innocent party
Regression - return to an easier time
Rationalization - own set of facts
Sublimation - redirect emotions to something positive

Question 14

Repression

Answer 14

The basic defense mechanism that banishes anxiety-arousing thoughts, feelings, and memories from consciousness

Question 15

Collective Unconscious

Answer 15

According to Carl Jung, humans have a reservoir of images that are derived from out universal experiences

Question 16

Projective Test

Answer 16

A personality test that provides ambiguous stimuli designed to trigger projection of one’s inner dynamics

Question 17

Rorschach Inkblot Test

Answer 17

a person’s state of mind and various personality traits.

Question 18

Terror-Management Theory

Answer 18

Explorers people’s emotional and behavioral responses to reminders of their impending death

Question 19

Humanistic Theories

Answer 19

states that people are intrinsically good, with an innate drive to make themselves better - carl rogers

Question 20

Self-Actualization

Answer 20

Abraham Maslow calls the process of fulfilling our potential

Question 21

Unconditional Positive Regard

Answer 21

attitude of complete acceptance and love, whether for yourself or for someone else. When you have unconditional positive regard for someone, nothing they can do could give you a reason to stop seeing them as inherently human and inherently lovable.

Question 22

Self-Concept

Answer 22

a collection of beliefs one holds about oneself and the responses of others

Question 23

Self efifacy

Answer 23

Your subjective belief about your ability to meet the demands of a particular situation is called