Paddock AP Psychology 4.4-4.5 Crossword

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  1. 2. Defense mechanism that offers self-justifying explanations in place of the real, more threatening, unconscious reasons for one's actions.
  2. 3. One's sense of competence and effectiveness.
  3. 5. A questionnaire (often with true-false or agree-disagree items) on which people respond to items designed to gauge a wide range of feelings and behaviors; used to assess selected personality traits.
  4. 7. Defense mechanism in which an individual faced with anxiety retreats to a more infantile psychosexual stage.
  5. 9. Defense mechanism by which people disguise their own threatening impulses by attributing them to others.
  6. 10. A view that explains personality in terms of conscious and unconscious forces, such as unconscious desires and beliefs.
  7. 11. One of the five factors; energy, positive emotions, and the tendency to seek stimulation and the company of others.
  8. 13. One's feelings of high or low self-worth.
  9. 16. Defense mechanism by which anxiety-provoking thoughts and feelings are forced to the unconscious.
  10. 17. One of the five factors; a tendency to be compassionate and cooperative rather than suspicious and antagonistic towards others.
  11. 19. The interacting influences of behavior, internal cognition, and environment.
  12. 21. Views behavior as influenced by the interaction between people's traits (including their thinking) and their social context.
  13. 25. An attitude of total acceptance toward another person.
  14. 26. All our thoughts and feelings about ourselves, in answer to the question, 'Who am I?'
  15. 27. The level of consciousness that is not currently in focal awareness.
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  1. 1. Defense mechanism by which the ego unconsciously switches unacceptable impulses into their opposites.
  2. 4. One of the five factors; a tendency to show self-discipline, act dutifully, and aim for achievement.
  3. 6. Theories that endeavor to describe the characteristics that make up human personality in an effort to predict future behavior.
  4. 8. One of the five factors; willingness to try new things and be open to new experiences.
  5. 12. The theory that there are five basic personality traits: openness, conscientiousness, extraversion, agreeableness, and neuroticism (emotional stability).
  6. 14. Psychoanalytic defense mechanism by which people refuse to believe or even to perceive painful realities.
  7. 15. Defense mechanism that shifts sexual or aggressive impulses toward a more acceptable or less threatening object or person.
  8. 18. A historically significant perspective that emphasized the growth potential of healthy people.
  9. 20. The human motive toward realizing our inner potential.
  10. 22. A reservoir of mostly unacceptable thoughts, wishes, feelings, and memories.
  11. 23. A statistical procedure that identifies clusters of related items (called factors) on a test; used to identify different dimensions of performance that underlie one's total score.
  12. 24. Defense mechanism by which people re-channel their unacceptable impulses into socially approved activities.