Personality
Across
- 4. One's feelings of high or low self-worth
- 5. Freud's theory of personality and therapeutic technique that attributes thoughts and actions to unconscious motives and conflicts
- 7. A reservoir of mostly unacceptable thoughts, wishes, feelings, and memories
- 10. The extent to which people perceive control over their environment rather than feeling helpless
- 13. A reservoir of unconscious psychic energy that strives to satisfy basic sexual and aggressive drives
- 15. The basic defense mechanism that banishes anxiety-arousing thoughts, feelings, and memories from consciousness
- 16. A readiness to perceive oneself favorably
- 17. The largely conscious, "executive" part of personality that mediates among the demands of the id, superego, and reality
- 18. A defense mechanism by which people disguise their own threatening impulses by attributing them to others
- 21. A defense mechanism that offers self-justifying explanations in place of the real, more threatening, unconscious reasons for one's actions
- 23. The interacting influences of behavior, internal cognition, and environment
- 24. The part of personality that represents internalized ideals and provides standards for judgment and for future aspirations
Down
- 1. The center of personality, the organizer of our thoughts, feelings, and actions
- 2. A method of exploring the unconscious in which the person relaxes and says whatever comes to mind, no matter how trivial or embarrassing
- 3. A defense mechanism that shifts sexual or aggressive impulses toward a more acceptable or less threatening object or person, as when redirecting anger toward a safer outlet
- 6. A questionnaire (often with true-false or agree-disagree items) on which people respond to items designed to gauge a wide range of feelings and behaviors; used to assess selected personality traits
- 8. All our thoughts and feelings about ourselves, in answer to the question "Who am I?"
- 9. formation A defense mechanism by which the ego unconsciously switches unacceptable impulses into their opposites
- 11. A defense mechanism in which an individual faced with anxiety retreats to a more infantile psychosexual stage, where some psychic energy remains fixated
- 12. An individual's characteristic pattern of thinking, feeling, and acting
- 14. One of the ultimate psychological needs that arises after basic physical and psychological needs are met and self-esteem is achieved
- 19. Giving priority to one's own goals over group goals and defining one's identity in terms of personal attributes rather than group identifications
- 20. Giving priority to goals of one's group and defining one's identity accordingly
- 22. A characteristic pattern of behavior or a disposition to feel and act, as assessed by self-report inventories and peer reports