Chapter 3 Vocabulary
Across
- 3. Exaggerated fears of everyday objects or events
- 5. A feeling or mental position that causes a person to react to a situation to a situation, concept, or object in a characteristic way
- 7. The inner qualities of a person that make him or her unique
- 9. Explaining one's weaknesses or failures by giving socially acceptable excuses
- 13. Act of transferring the energy of an emotion one cannot express into a physical symptom or complaint
- 14. The way a person feels about himself or herself
- 15. How a person feels about himself or herself
- 16. Transferring an emotion connected with one person or thing to an unrelated person or thing
- 17. Rules of behavior based on morals
- 18. A defense mechanism in which a person reverts back to a less mature stage of development
Down
- 1. The realization of a person's full potential
- 2. Using a substitute method to achieve a desired goal
- 4. Valuing something far more than it is worth
- 6. Blaming other people or things for one's own failures
- 8. Attack, Defense mechanism in which a person attacks the source of a threat when his or her self-esteem is threatened
- 10. Those items or conditions that people must have in order to survive
- 11. Mechanisms, Direct attack; rationalization; displacement; conversion; regression
- 12. Beliefs about right and wrong behavior
- 16. Mechanisms, Automatic and involuntary ways people react to anxiety-producing events or threats