Personality

4. giving priority to our own goals over group goals and defining our identity in terms of personal traits rather than group membership
7. giving priority to the goals of our group and defining our identity accordingly
9. an individual's characteristic pattern of thinking, feeling, and acting
12. effect overestimating others' noticing and evaluating our appearance, performance, and blunders
14. inventory a questionnaire on which people respond to items designed to gauge a wide range of feeling and behaviors
15. characteristic pattern of behavior of a tendency to feel and act in a certain way
16. motivation to fulfill our potential
18. represents internalized ideals and provides standards for judgement and future goals; conscience
19. cluster of behavior tendencies that occur together
20. mechanisms ego's protective methods of reducing anxiety by unconsciously distorting reality

1. childhood stages of development during which the id's pleasure-seeking energies focus on distinct erogenous zones
2. complex boy's sexual desires toward his mother and feelings of jealousy and hatred for the rival father
3. reservoir of mostly unacceptable thoughts, wishes, feelings, and memories; information processing of which we are aware
5. positive regard attitude of total acceptance toward another person
6. provides an unclear image designed to trigger projection of the test-taker's unconscious thoughts or feelings
8. strives to satisfy basic sexual and aggressive drives; operates on the pleasure principle, demanding immediate gratification
10. largely conscious, "executive" part of the personality that balances demands of the id, superego, and reality; operates on reality principle satisfying desires in ways that will realistically bring pleasure rather than pain
11. basic defense mechanism that banishes from consciousness the thoughts, feelings, and memories that arouse anxiety
13. attributes thoughts and actions to unconscious motives and conflicts; techniques used in treating psychological disorders by seeking to expose and interpret unconscious tensions
17. association exploring the unconscious in which the person relaxes and says whatever comes to mind, no matter how unimportant or embarrassing