Personality Pt. 1 Vocab Terms Flashcards
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free association
method of exploring the unconscious
personality
individual’s characteristic pattern of thinking
psychoanalysis
attributes thoughts and actions to unconscious motives and conflicts
unconscious
reservoir of mostly unacceptable thoughts
id
strives to satisfy basic sexual and aggressive drives
ego
mediates among the demands of the id, superego, and reality
superego
represents internalized ideals and provides standards for judgment
psychosexual stages
childhood stages of development
Oedipus complex
boy’s sexual desires towards his mother
identification
children incorporate their parents’ values into their developing superegos
fixation
lingering focus of pleasure-seeking energies
repression
banishes anxiety-arousing thoughts
regression
individual faced with anxiety retreats to a more infantile psychosexual stage
reaction formation
ego unconsciously switches unacceptable impulses
projection
people disguise their own threatening impulses
rationalization
offers self-justifying explanations in place of the real unconscious reasons for one’s actions
displacement
shifts sexual or aggressive impulses toward a more acceptable or less threatening object or person
collective unconscious
Carl Jung’s concept of a shared, inherited reservoir of memory traces from our species’ history
thematic apperception test (TAT)
people express their inner feelings and interests
Rorschach inkblot test
seeks to identify people’s inner feelings by analyzing their interpretations of the blots
sublimation
socially unacceptable impulses or idealizations are consciously transformed into socially acceptable actions
