Psychology

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  1. 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
  2. 5. Freud’s theory of personality and therapeutic technique that attributes thoughts and actions to unconscious motives and conflicts. Freud believed the patient’s free associations, resistances, dreams, and transferences- and the therapist’s interpretations of them-released previously repressed feelings, allowing the patient to gain self-insight
  3. 7. how people process, store, and apply information about other people and social situations
  4. 8. a well-researched and respected test designed to help mental health professionals diagnose mental health disorders and conditions
  5. 10. a characteristic pattern of behavior or a disposition to feel and act, as assessed by self-report inventories and peer reports
  6. 11. the part of personality that, according to Freud, represents internalized ideals and provides standards for judgment (the conscience) and for future aspirations
  7. 14. he perception that you control your own fate
  8. 16. psychoanalytic defense mechanism by which the ego unconsciously switches unacceptable impulses into their opposites. Thus, people may express feelings that are the opposite of their anxiety-arousing unconscious feelings
  9. 18. according to Freud, a boy’s sexual desires toward his mother and feelings of jealousy and hatred for the rival father
  10. 21. one’s feelings of high or low self-worth
  11. 22. in psychoanalytic theory, the basic defense mechanism that banishes anxiety-arousing thoughts, feelings, and memories from consciousness
Down
  1. 1. Carl Jung’s concept of a shared, inherited reservoir of memory traces from our species’ history
  2. 2. psychoanalytic defense mechanism that offers self-justifying explanations in place of the real, more threatening, unconscious reasons for one’s actions
  3. 3. a caring, accepting, nonjudgmental attitude, which Carl Rogers believed would help clients to develop self awareness and self acceptance
  4. 6. in contemporary psychology, assumed to be the center of personality, the organizer of our thoughts, feelings, and actions
  5. 9. the extent to which people perceive control over their environment rather than feeling helpless
  6. 12. involves becoming stuck at a particular point in psychosexual development.
  7. 13. a theory of death-related anxiety; explores people’s emotional and behavioral response to reminders of their impending death
  8. 15. a projective test in which people express their inner feelings and interests through the stories they make up about ambiguous scenes
  9. 17. a part of a person's unconscious mind that relates to basic needs and desires
  10. 19. an individual’s characteristic pattern of thinking, feeling, and acting
  11. 20. a mature type of defense mechanism, in which socially unacceptable impulses or idealizations are transformed into socially acceptable actions or behavior, possibly resulting in a long-term conversion of the initial impulse.