Personality Vocab List A

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Across
  1. 8. provides standards for judgment (the conscience) and for future aspirations
  2. 12. the most widely used and researched clinical assessment tool used by mental health professionals to help diagnose mental health disorders.
  3. 13. a person's essential being that distinguishes them from others, especially considered as the object of introspection or reflexive action.
  4. 14. a sub-topic of social psychology that focuses on how people process, store, and apply information about other people and social situations
  5. 15. the combination of characteristics or qualities that form an individual's distinctive character
  6. 19. offers self-justifying explanations in place of the real, more threatening, unconscious reasons for one’s actions.
  7. 20. a projective test in which people express their inner feelings and interests through the stories they make up about ambiguous scenes.
  8. 21. causes the ego to unconsciously switch unacceptable impulses into their opposites
Down
  1. 1. the degree to which people believe that they, as opposed to external forces, have control over the outcome of events in their lives
  2. 2. an individual's belief about the degree that he or she can bring about good events and avoid bad events
  3. 3. a system of psychological theory and therapy which aims to treat mental disorders by investigating the interaction of conscious and unconscious elements in the mind and bringing repressed fears and conflicts into the conscious mind by techniques such as dream interpretation and free association
  4. 4. refers to a boy’s sexual desires toward his mother and feelings of jealousy and hatred for the rival father
  5. 5. Where archetypes are (Understanding and awareness of Persona and Shadow by all human beings)
  6. 6. a theory of death related anxiety
  7. 7. an attitude of acceptance of others amidst their failings.
  8. 8. Channel impulses into acceptable behavior. Often uses humor.
  9. 9. banishes anxiety-arousing thoughts, feelings, and memories from consciousness
  10. 10. the tendency to act, think, and feel in a certain way
  11. 11. confidence in one's own worth or abilities; self-respect.
  12. 16. unconsciously strives to satisfy basic sexual and aggressive drives, demanding immediate gratification
  13. 17. a social or cultural tradition, ideology, or personal outlook that emphasizes the individual and his or her rights, independence, and relationships with other individuals
  14. 18. an obsessive interest in or feeling about someone or something