Personality Theories Puzzle
Across
- 4. the basic defense mechanism that banishes from consciousness anxiety-arousing thoughts, feelings, and memories
- 6. Freud's theory of personality that attributes thoughts and actions to unconscious motives and conflicts
- 8. the ego's protective methods of reducing anxiety by unconsciously distorting reality
- 9. Maslow's five levels of human needs, beginning with physiological needs
- 10. a view of behavior as influenced by the interaction between people's traits and their social context
- 14. theories that view personality with a focus on the unconscious mind and the importance of childhood experiences
- 15. a caring, accepting, nonjudgemental attitude, which Carl Rogers believed would help people develop self-awareness and self-acceptance
- 17. Carl Jung's concept of a shared, inherited reservoir of memory traces from our species' history
- 18. according to Maslow, the motivation to achieve one's full potential
- 19. the theory that a set of stable traits interact with our cognitive processes to create our personality
- 20. the partly conscious part of personality that, according to Freud, mediates among the demands of the id, the superego, and reality
- 21. a collective consciousness derived from species' universal experiences
- 22. according to Freud, a reservoir of mostly unacceptable thoughts, wishes, feelings, and memories
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- 1. the interacting influences of behavior, internal cognition, and environment
- 2. a personality test that provides ambiguous images designed to trigger projection of people's inner dynamics
- 3. researchers identified five factors - openness, conscientiousness, extraversion, agreeableness, and neuroticism - that describe personality
- 5. the childhood stages of development that, according to Freud, determine personality
- 7. a lingering focus of pleasure-seeking energies at am earlier psychosexual stage, in which conflicts were unresolved
- 11. theories that view personality with a focus on the potential for healthy personal growth
- 12. unconscious psychic energy that, according to Freud, strikes to satisfy basic sexual and aggressive drives
- 13. the partly conscious part of personality that, according to Freud, represents internalized ideals and provides standards for judgement (the conscious) and for future aspirations
- 16. refusing to believe or even perceive painful realities