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