Personality Vocabulary

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Across
  1. 1. Basic defense mechanism that banishes anxiety-arousing thoughts, feelings, and memories from consciousness
  2. 3. Psychological test that assesses personality traits and psychopathology
  3. 8. Views behavior as influeced by the interaction between people
  4. 10. an individual's characterstic pattern of thinking, feeling, and acting
  5. 15. Psychoanalytic defense mechanism by which the ego unconsciously switches unacceptable impulses into their opposites
  6. 17. Assumed to be the center of personality, the organizer of our thoughts, feelings, and actions
  7. 18. The extent to which people perceive control over their environment rather than feeling helpless
  8. 20. Psychoanalytic defense mechanism by which people re-channel their unacceptable impulses into socially approved activities
  9. 22. The perception that you control your own fate
Down
  1. 2. Psychoanalytic defense mechanism that offers self-justifying explanations in place of the real, more threatening, unconscious reasons for one's actions
  2. 4. Giving priority to one's own goals over group goals and defining one's identity in terms of personal attributes rather than group identifications
  3. 5. Carl Jung's concept of a shared, inherited reservoir of memory traces from our species' history
  4. 6. A characteristic pattern of behavior or a disposition to feel and act, as assessed by self-report inventories and peer reports
  5. 7. A caring, accepting, nonjudgemental attitude, which Carl Rogers believed would help clients to develop self-awareness and self-acceptance
  6. 9. A boy's sexual desires toward his mother and feelings of jealousy and hatred for the rival's father
  7. 11. A theory of death-related anxiety; explores people's emotional and behavioral responses to reminders of their impending death
  8. 12. Linear focus of pleasure seeking energies at an earlier psychosexual stage, in which conflicts were unresolved
  9. 13. Part of personality that represents internalized ideals and provides standards for judgement and for future aspirations
  10. 14. Freud's theory of personality and therapeutic technique that attributes thoughts and actions to unconscious motives and conflicts
  11. 16. A reservoir of unconscious psychic energy that strives to satisfy basic sexual and aggressive drives
  12. 19. One's feelings of high or low self-worth
  13. 21. widely used projective test used for the assessment of children and adults