Personality Psychology List B

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Across
  1. 2. overestimating others noticing and evaluating ourselves (thinking a spotlight is always on us)
  2. 4. a personality test, Rorschach or TAT that provides ambiguous stimuli designed to trigger projection of one’s inner dynamics.
  3. 7. according to Freud, a reservoir of mostly unacceptable thoughts, feelings, wishes, and memories. From contemporary psychologists info processing which we are unaware of.
  4. 10. readiness to perceive oneself favorably.
  5. 15. giving priority to the goals of a group than themselves, defining identity accordingly.
  6. 17. psychoanalytic defense mechanism where people disguise their own threatening impulses by attributing them to other people.
  7. 18. psychoanalytic defense mechanism where people refuse to believe or perceive painful realities
  8. 19. In psychoanalysis, method of exploring the unconscious where the person relaxes and says whatever comes to mind, no matter how embarrassing or little.
  9. 20. process by which Freud said children incorporate parents’ values into developing superegos.
  10. 22. questionnaire where people respond to items made to gauge a wide range of feelings and behaviors, used to assess selected traits of personality.
Down
  1. 1. childhood stages of development according to freud the id’s pleasure seeking energies focus on distinct erogenous zones
  2. 3. perception that chance or outside forces beyond personal control determine your fate.
  3. 5. psychoanalytic theory, the ego’s protective methods of lowering anxiety but unconsciously distorting reality
  4. 6. scientific study of optimal human functioning, aims to find and promote strengths and virtues that enable individuals and communities to thrive.
  5. 8. psychoanalytic defense mechanism which shifts sexual or aggresive impulses to a more acceptable or less threatening object or person, like when redirecting anger to a safer outlet.
  6. 9. from Maslow, ultimate psychological needs that show after basic physical and psychological needs are met, the motivation to fulfill one’s potential.
  7. 11. The most widely used projective test. Set of 10 inkblots seeks to identify people’s inner feelings by analyzing interpretations of blots.
  8. 12. the interacting influences of behavior, internal cognition and environment.
  9. 13. All our thoughts and feelings about ourselves.
  10. 14. psychoanalytic defense mechanism, individual faced with anxiety retreats to an infantile psychosexual stage where some psychic energy stays fixated.
  11. 16. a test like MMPI developed by testing a pool of items, then selecting the ones that discriminate between groups.
  12. 21. largely conscious part of personality that (from Freud) mediates among demands of id, superego, and reality. Operates on reality principle satisfying the id’s desire that brings pleasure as opposed to pain.