Psych Personality

Question 1

Personality

Answer 1

individual’s characteristic pattern of thinking, feeling, and acting

Question 2

ID

Answer 2

Contains the libido (Sex drive)
Strives to satisfy basic sexual and aggressive drives
Pleasure principle: demanding immediate gratification

Question 3

Superego

Ego Ideal

Conscience

Answer 3

Ego ideal: presents internalized ideals
Conscience: Provides standards for judgment and for future aspirations

Question 4

Ego

Answer 4

The mediator
The largely conscious, “Executive” part of the personality
Reality principle: Satisfying the ID’s Desires in realistic ways

Question 5

Conscious

Answer 5

Awareness of ones slef and the environment

Question 6

Unconscious

Answer 6

thoughts, memories, and feelings that are not easily or voluntarily brought into consciousness

Question 7

Freudian slip

Answer 7

revealing through errors in speech

Question 8

Denial

Answer 8

refusal to acknowledge

Question 9

Repression

Answer 9

Pushing threatening events out of conscious memory

Question 10

Rationalization

Answer 10

Acceptable excuses for unacceptable behavior

Question 11

Projection

Answer 11

Placing unacceptable qualities of the self onto others

Question 12

Reaction formation

Answer 12

emotional reaction opposite of actual unacceptable thoughts

Question 13

Displacement

Answer 13

expressing feelings onto a substitute target

Question 14

sublimation

Answer 14

Turning unacceptable urges into acceptable behavior