Across
- 5. how you feel about yourself
- 6. creating false but plausible excuses to justify unacceptable behavior
- 8. specific characteristic of an individual
- 11. an individual's characteristic pattern of thinking, feeling, and acting
- 12. views behaviour as influenced by the interaction between persons and their social context
- 13. the inability to see a problem from a new perspective; an impediment to problem solving
- 15. an attitude of total acceptance toward another person
- 17. Jung's name for the memories shared by all members of the human species
- 19. (The Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory) frequently used clinical testing instrument for the diagnosis and treatment of mental illness
- 20. the theory that holds that self-esteem serves as a buffer, protecting people from terrifying thoughts about their own mortality
- 21. the perception that one controls one's own fate
Down
- 1. a boy's sexual desires towards his mother and feelings of jealousy and hatred for the rival father
- 2. A method of studying how the mind works and treating mental disorders
- 3. Defense mechanism channeling unacceptable urges into something more acceptable.
- 4. keeping distressing thoughts and feelings buried in the unconscious
- 5. part of the personality that acts as a moral center
- 7. a social theory favoring freedom of action for individuals over collective or state control.
- 9. Defense mechanism by which people behave in a way opposite to what their true but anxiety-provoking feelings would dictate
- 10. a projective test in which people express their inner feelings and interests through the stories they make up about ambiguous scenes
- 14. our sense of controlling our environment rather than feeling helpless
- 16. a reservoir of unconscious psychic energy that strives to satisfy basic sexual and aggressive drives
- 18. the individual identity of a person as perceived by that same person