AP Psych Vocab B

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Across
  1. 1. the motivation to fulfill one’s potention
  2. 4. psychoanalytic defense mechanism that shifts sexual or aggressive impulses to toward a more acceptable or less threatening object or person, as when redirecting anger toward a safer outlet
  3. 7. the childhood stages of development during which the id’s pleasure-seeking energies focus on distinct erogenous zones
  4. 8. the ego’s protective methods of reducing anxiety by unconsciously distorting reality
  5. 11. the perception that chance or outside forces beyond your personal control determine your fate
  6. 14. a test developed by testing a pool of items and then selecting those that discriminate between groups
  7. 15. psychoanalytic defense mechanism by which people disguise their own threatening impulses by attributing them to others
  8. 16. giving priority to goals of one’s group and defining one’s identity accordingly
  9. 17. overestimating others’ noticing and evaluating our appearance, performance, and blunders
  10. 18. the scientific study of optimal human functioning
  11. 19. a method of exploring the unconscious in which a person relaxes and says whatever comes to mind
  12. 21. a questionnaire on which people respond to items designed to gauge a wide range of feelings and behaviors
Down
  1. 2. the process by which children incorporate their parent’s values into their developing superegos
  2. 3. psychoanalytic defense mechanism in which an individual faced with anxiety retreats to a more infantile psychosexual stage, where some psychic energy remains fixated
  3. 4. psychoanalytic defense mechanism by which people refuse to believe or even to perceive painful realities
  4. 5. a reservoir of mostly unacceptable thoughts, wishes, feelings, and memories
  5. 6. the interacting influences of behavior, internal cognition, and environment
  6. 9. a personality test that provides ambiguous stimuli designed to trigger projection of one’s inner dynamics
  7. 10. it is a test that is the most widely used projective test. It seeks to identify people’s inner feelings by analyzing their interpretations of the blots
  8. 12. a readiness to perceive oneself favorably
  9. 13. all our thoughts and feelings about ourselves, in answer to the question “Who am I”
  10. 20. the largely conscious, "executive" part of personality that mediates among the demands of the id, superego, and reality