Personality Vocab: List B

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Across
  1. 2. a readiness to perceive oneself favorably
  2. 7. most widely used projective test that seeks to identify people's inner feelings by analyzing their interpretations of the 10 inkblots presented to them
  3. 9. people refuse to believe or even to perceive painful realities
  4. 11. an individual faced with anxiety repeats to a more infantile stage of development
  5. 12. a reservoir of mostly unacceptable thoughts, wishes, feelings, and memories
  6. 14. the perception that chance or outside forces beyond your personal control determine your fate
  7. 17. overestimating others noticing and evaluating our appearance, performance, and blunders
  8. 20. childhood stages of development during which the id's pleasure-seeking energies focus on distinct erogenous zones
  9. 21. process how children incorporate their parent's values into their developing superegos
  10. 22. people disguise their own threatening impulses by attributing them to others
Down
  1. 1. interacting influences of behavior, internal cognition, and environment
  2. 3. the largely conscious "executive" part of personality that mediates among demands of the id, superego, and reality
  3. 4. scientific study of optimal human functioning aims to discover and promote strengths and virtues that enable individuals and communities to thrive
  4. 5. questionnaire on which people respond to items designed to gauge a wide range of feelings and behaviors that is used to asses selected personality traits
  5. 6. motivation to fulfill one's potential
  6. 8. test developed by testing a pool of items and then selecting those that discriminate between groups
  7. 10. all of our thoughts and feelings regrading ourselves
  8. 13. method of exploring the unconscious in which the person relaxes and says whatever comes to mind, no matter how trivial or embarrassing
  9. 15. giving priority to the goals of one's group and defining one's identity accordingly
  10. 16. the ego's protective methods of reducing anxiety by unconsciously distorting reality
  11. 18. personality test that provides ambiguous stimuli designed to trigger projections of one's inner dynamics
  12. 19. shifts sexual or aggressive impulses toward less threatening and acceptable object/person