Personality Vocabulary Crossword

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Across
  1. 4. the perception that chance or outside forces beyond your personal control determine your fate
  2. 5. the ego's protective methods of reducing anxiety by unconsciously distorting reality
  3. 9. a test developed by testing a pool of items and then selecting those that discriminate between groups
  4. 10. one of ultimate psychological needs that arises after basic psychical and psychological needs are met and self-esteem is achieved
  5. 11. a personality test that provides ambiguous stimuli designed to trigger projection of one's inner dynamics
  6. 14. the childhood stages of development during which the id's pleasure-seeking energies focus on distinct erogenous zones
  7. 16. defense mechanism by which people refuse to believe or even perceive painful realities
  8. 19. a readiness to perceive oneself favorably
  9. 20. a questionnaire on which people respond to items designed to gauge a wide range of feelings and behaviors
  10. 22. the largely conscious, "executive" part of personality that mediates among the demands of the id, superego, and reality
Down
  1. 1. all our thoughts and feelings about ourselves
  2. 2. defense mechanism by which people disguise their own threatening impulses by attributing them to others
  3. 3. the interacting influences of behavior, internal cognition, and environment
  4. 6. giving priority to goals of one's group and defining one's identity accordingly
  5. 7. the scientific study of optimal human functioning
  6. 8. defense mechanism in which an individual faced with anxiety retreats to a more infantile psychosexual stage, where some psychic energy remains fixated
  7. 12. the most widely used projective test designed by Hermann Rorschach; seeks to identify people's inner feelings by analyzing their interpretations of the blots
  8. 13. overestimating others' noticing and evaluating our appearance,performance, and blunders
  9. 15. defense mechanism that shifts sexual aggressive impulses towards a more acceptable or less threatening object or person
  10. 17. a reservoir of mostly unacceptable thoughts, wishes, feelings, and memories
  11. 18. a method of exploring the unconscious in which the person relaxes and says whatever comes to mind
  12. 21. the process by which children incorporate their parents' values into into their developing superegos