Psychology: Personality

patterns of feelings, thoughts and behavior that set people apart from one another

school pf psychology founded by Freud, that emphasizes the importance of unconscious motives and internal conflicts as determinants of human behavior

Psychoanalytic theory, the reservoir of unconscious psychic energy that strives to satisfy basic sexual and aggressive drives

Psychoanalytic theory, the personality component that is conscious and that controls behavior

Psychoanalytic theory, the moral side and provides standards for judgments

oral, Anal, Phallic, Latency and Genital

store of human concepts shared by people across all cultures

the tendency for a person to be interested in their own feelings and turns inward rather that to other people

the tendency for a person to be active and self expressive and who gains energy from interaction with energy

Having char. of both Introversion and Extroversion

According to Adler feelings of inadequacy and insecurity that serve as a central source for motivation

Freud, reservoir of mostly unacceptable thoughts, wishes, feelings and memories of which we are unaware influence our behavior

Freud, hidden meaning of dream vs. apparent and remembered content of dream

Openness Conscientiousness Extraversion Agreeableness Neuroticism

in Psychoanalysis, the uncensored uttering of all thoughts that come to mind

Abraham Maslow

Psychoanalysis, patient transfer of emotions associated with other relationships to the therapist

MMI-2 and CPI

Rorschach, Thematic Apperception Test

therapist creates an accepting, empathetic Environment to facilitate the clients growth

in psychoanalytic theory, the basic defense mechanism that banishes from consciousness anxiety-arousing thoughts, feelings, and memories

a defense mechanism in which unpleasant thought or desires are ignored or excluded from consciousness

defense mechanism that offers self-justifying explanations in place of the real, more threatening, unconscious reasons for one's actions

defense mechanism in which one disguises one's won unacceptable impulses by attributing them to others

psychoanalytic defense mechanism that shifts sexual or aggressive impulses toward a more acceptable or less threatening object or person, as when redirecting anger toward a safer outlet

an unwillingness to face uncomfortable situations or psychological realities

a person's belief in his or her ability to succeed at the task at hand

who we are versus who we want and strive to be