AP Psych Crossword (aka: uh oh, Freud!)

2. The predisposition to favor oneself
4. Five stages occurring up until puberty where the id's pleasure seeking energy focuses on certain erogenous zones
7. Sexual or aggressive impulses are shifted towards a safer or more socially acceptable outlet
11. The refusal to accept or even acknowledge painful realities
12. The mostly unacceptable thoughts, wishes, feelings, and memories which we are not actively aware of or able to access
14. Explores the unconscious by having a person say whatever comes to mind
18. Methods such as denial or projection used by the ego to reduce anxiety
20. A person's inner feelings are identified by their interpretation of a series of inkblots
21. The perception that others are paying greater attention to one's appearance, performance, or blunders than they truly are
22. The belief that outside factors control your fate, not yourself

1. Centering one's identity around membership in a group and prioritizing the goals of that group
3. The interactions between behavior, internal cognition, and environment
5. The study of strengths and virtues that enable individuals and communities to best function
6. When anxious or distressed, the individual retreats to a more infantile stage of behavior
8. A questionnaire which assesses and measures certain feelings, behaviors, and personality traits
9. Created by testing a pool of items and then isolating those that discriminate between groups
10. The highest level of Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs, met once basic physical and self-esteem needs have been met
13. A person's perception of themselves
15. A test that utilizes one's reactions to ambiguous stimuli to identify internal dynamics and personality
16. The process through which caregivers' values are incorporated into the superego
17. Threatening or socially unacceptable impulses are attributed to others instead of oneself
19. The executive part of the personality, which mediates between the other two