Personality

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Across
  1. 4. One's feelings of high or low self-worth
  2. 5. Freud's theory of personality and therapeutic technique that attributes thoughts and actions to unconscious motives and conflicts
  3. 7. A reservoir of mostly unacceptable thoughts, wishes, feelings, and memories
  4. 10. The extent to which people perceive control over their environment rather than feeling helpless
  5. 13. A reservoir of unconscious psychic energy that strives to satisfy basic sexual and aggressive drives
  6. 15. The basic defense mechanism that banishes anxiety-arousing thoughts, feelings, and memories from consciousness
  7. 16. A readiness to perceive oneself favorably
  8. 17. The largely conscious, "executive" part of personality that mediates among the demands of the id, superego, and reality
  9. 18. A defense mechanism by which people disguise their own threatening impulses by attributing them to others
  10. 21. A defense mechanism that offers self-justifying explanations in place of the real, more threatening, unconscious reasons for one's actions
  11. 23. The interacting influences of behavior, internal cognition, and environment
  12. 24. The part of personality that represents internalized ideals and provides standards for judgment and for future aspirations
Down
  1. 1. The center of personality, the organizer of our thoughts, feelings, and actions
  2. 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. 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
  4. 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
  5. 8. All our thoughts and feelings about ourselves, in answer to the question "Who am I?"
  6. 9. formation A defense mechanism by which the ego unconsciously switches unacceptable impulses into their opposites
  7. 11. A defense mechanism in which an individual faced with anxiety retreats to a more infantile psychosexual stage, where some psychic energy remains fixated
  8. 12. An individual's characteristic pattern of thinking, feeling, and acting
  9. 14. One of the ultimate psychological needs that arises after basic physical and psychological needs are met and self-esteem is achieved
  10. 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
  11. 20. Giving priority to goals of one's group and defining one's identity accordingly
  12. 22. A characteristic pattern of behavior or a disposition to feel and act, as assessed by self-report inventories and peer reports