What Is Psychology? (Key Terms)
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- 3. The shift of an emotion from its original focus to another object, person, or situation
- 5. association A method used in psychoanalysis where a patient relaxes and says whatever comes to mind
- 6. psychology A branch of psychology founded by Carl Jung, based on the idea that balancing a person's psyche would allow the person to reach his or her full potential
- 7. Universal symbols that tend to reappear over time; includes models of people, behaviours, and personalities
- 9. theory An approach to therapy that focuses on resolving a patient's conflicted conscious and unconscious feelings psychoanalytic theory
- 12. memories, instincts, and experiences common to all
- 15. Psychologists who modified Freud's psychoanalytic theory to include social and cultural aspects
- 16. Information that we are always aware of; our conscious mind performs the thinking when we take in new information
- 18. Freud's term for the instinctual part of the mind, which operates on the pleasure principle
- 19. Freud's term for the moral centre of the mind
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- 1. disorder A mental disorder involving anxiety and fear
- 2. influence the unconscious mind throughout life
- 3. The ego's way of distorting reality to deal with anxiety
- 4. Freud's term for the rational part of the mind, which operates on the reality principle
- 8. A process in which unacceptable desires or impulses are excluded from consciousness and left to operate in the unconscious
- 9. An individual's characteristic pattern of thinking, feeling, and acting
- 10. A defense mechanism whereby a person refuses to recognize or acknowledge something that is painful
- 11. Information processing in our mind that we are not aware of; according to Freud, it holds our unacceptable thoughts, feelings, and memories; according to Jung, it includes patterns
- 13. unconscious The shared, inherited pool of memories from our ancestors
- 14. A defense mechanism whereby a person attributes their own threatening impulses onto someone else
- 17. Freud's theory That all human behaviour is influenced by early childhood and that childhood