Personality Vocab B

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Across
  1. 2. perception that chance/outside forces determine your fate.
  2. 4. personality test;identifies people's inner feelings by analyzing their interpretations of the blots.
  3. 5. defense mechanism;shifts sexual or aggressive impulses toward a safer outlet
  4. 7. a readiness to perceive oneself favorably.
  5. 9. defense mechanism; retreating to the infantile psychosexual stage.
  6. 11. overestimating others noticing you
  7. 13. testing a pool of items and then selecting those that discriminate between groups.
  8. 14. Our thoughts and feelings about ourselves
  9. 15. defense mechanism;people refuse to believe/perceive painful realities.
  10. 16. children incorporate their parents' values into their developing superegos.
  11. 17. giving priority to the goals of one's group and defining one's identity accordingly.
  12. 19. information processing we are unaware of.
  13. 21. study of optimal human functioning; ans to discover and promote strengths and virtues that enable individuals and communities to thrive.
  14. 22. says whatever comes to mind.
Down
  1. 1. interacting influences Of behavior, internal cognition, and environment.
  2. 3. the egos protective methods of reducing anxiety by distorting reality
  3. 6. Id's pleasure-seeking energies focus on distinct erogenous zones.
  4. 8. once basic physical and psychological needs are met and self-esteem is achieved, there is motivation to fulfill one's potential.
  5. 10. personality test;provides ambiguous stimuli designed to trigger projection of one's inner dynamics.
  6. 12. a questionnaire where people respond to items designed to gauge a wide range of feelings and behaviors and assess personality
  7. 18. defense mechanism;people disguise their own threatening impulses by attributing them to others.
  8. 20. "executive" part of personality; mediates among demands of id, superego, and reality.