What Is Psychology? (Key Terms)

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  1. 3. A process in which unacceptable desires or impulses are excluded from consciousness and left to operate in the unconscious
  2. 5. An individual's characteristic pattern of thinking, feeling, and acting
  3. 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
  4. 8. The ego's way of distorting reality to deal with anxiety
  5. 11. Freud's term for the rational part of the mind, which operates on the reality principle
  6. 12. Freud's term for the instinctual part of the mind, which operates on the pleasure principle
  7. 14. memories, instincts, and experiences common to all
  8. 15. A defense mechanism whereby a person attributes their own threatening impulses onto someone else
  9. 16. A defense mechanism whereby a person refuses to recognize or acknowledge something that is painful
  10. 17. 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
  11. 19. Universal symbols that tend to reappear over time; includes models of people, behaviours, and personalities
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  1. 1. association A method used in psychoanalysis where a patient relaxes and says whatever comes to mind
  2. 2. The shift of an emotion from its original focus to another object, person, or situation
  3. 3. influence the unconscious mind throughout life
  4. 4. Freud's term for the moral centre of the mind
  5. 7. theory An approach to therapy that focuses on resolving a patient's conflicted conscious and unconscious feelings psychoanalytic theory
  6. 9. Psychologists who modified Freud's psychoanalytic theory to include social and cultural aspects
  7. 10. Freud's theory That all human behaviour is influenced by early childhood and that childhood
  8. 13. unconscious The shared, inherited pool of memories from our ancestors
  9. 18. disorder A mental disorder involving anxiety and fear
  10. 20. Information that we are always aware of; our conscious mind performs the thinking when we take in new information