Chapter 13 Vocab-Personality Flashcards
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an individual’s characteristic pattern of thinking, feeling, and acting
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personality
2
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in psychoanalysis, a method of exploring the unconscious in which the person relaxes and says whatever comes to mind, no matter how trival or embarrassing
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free association
3
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Freud’s theory of personaltiy that attributes thoughts and actions to unconscious motives and conflicts; the techniques used in treating psychological disorders by seeking to expose and interpret unconscious tensions
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psychoanalysis
4
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according to Freud, a reservoir of mostly unacceptable thoughts, wishes, feelings, and memories. According to contemporary psychologists, information processing of which we are unaware
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unconscious
