Chapter 15 First Half

Question 0

A method of exploring the unconscious in which the person relaxes and says whatever comes to mind, no matter how trivial or embarrassing

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Free Association

Question 1

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

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Personality

Question 2

Freuds theory of personality that attributes thoughts and actions to unconscious motives and conflicts; techniques used in treating psychological disorders by seeking to expose and interpret unconscious tensions

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Psychoanalysis

Question 3

The part of the mind that contains material in which we are unaware but that strongly influences our behavior

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Unconscious

Question 4

Unconscious system of personality consisting of basic sexual and aggressive drives, that supplies psychic energy to personality

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Id

Question 5

Conscious division of personality that attempts to mediate between the demands of the id, the superego and reality

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Ego

Question 6

Division of personality that contains the conscience and develops by incorporating the perceived moral standards of society

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Superego

Question 7

Childhood stages of development during which according to freud the id’s pleasure seeking energies focus on distinct erogenous zones

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Psychosexual Stages

Question 8

A boys sexual desires toward his mother and feelings of jealousy and hatred for the rival father

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Oedipus Complex

Question 9

Children incorporating their parents’ values into their developing stages

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Identification

Question 10

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

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Fixate

Question 11

The egos protective methods of reducing anxiety by unconsciously distorting reality

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Defense Mechanisms

Question 12

Basic defense mechanism that banishes anxiety arousing thoughts, feelings, and memories from unconsciousness

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Repression

Question 13

An individual faced with anxiety retreats to a more infinite psychosexual stage, where some psychic energy remains fixated

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Regression

Question 14

The ego unconsciously switches unacceptable impulses into their opposites people may express feelings that are opposite of their anxiety arousing unconscious feelings

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Reaction Formation

Question 15

People disguise their own threatening impulses by attributing the to others

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Projection

Question 16

Offers self justifying explanations in place of real, more threatening, unconscious reasons for ones actions

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Rationalization

Question 17

Shifts sexual or aggressive threatening object of person, as when redirecting anger toward a safer outlet

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Displacement

Question 18

Carl Jung’s concept of shared, inherited reservoir of memory traces from our species history

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Collective Unconscious

Question 19

Personality test that provides ambiguous stimuli designed to trigger projection of ones inner dynamics

Answer 19

Projective Tests

Question 20

Projection test which people express their inner feelings and interests through the stories they make up about ambiguous scenes

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TAT

Question 21

Most widely used projective test, a set of 10 inkblots designed by Hermann Rorschach; seeks to identify people’s inner feelings by analyzing there interpretations of the blots

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Rorschach Inkblot Test