Across
- 3. exploring the unconscious in which the person relaxes and says whatever comes to mind, no matter how unimportant or embarrassing
- 8. reservoir of mostly unacceptable thoughts, wishes, feelings, and memories; information processing of which we are aware
- 9. 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
- 10. lingering focus of pleasure-seeking energies at an earlier psychosexual stage, in which conflicts were unresolved
- 12. attributes thoughts and actions to unconscious motives and conflicts; techniques used in treating psychological disorders by seeking to expose and interpret unconscious tensions
- 14. ego's protective methods of reducing anxiety by unconsciously distorting reality
- 16. an individual's characteristic pattern of thinking, feeling, and acting
Down
- 1. provides an unclear image designed to trigger projection of the test-taker's unconscious thoughts or feelings
- 2. focus on the unconscious and the importance of childhood experiences
- 4. strives to satisfy basic sexual and aggressive drives; operates on the pleasure principle, demanding immediate gratification
- 5. children incorporate their parents' values into their developing superegos
- 6. most widely used; seeks to identify people's inner feelings by analyzing their interpretations of the blots
- 7. boy's sexual desires toward his mother and feelings of jealousy and hatred for the rival father
- 11. basic defense mechanism that banishes from consciousness the thoughts, feelings, and memories that arouse anxiety
- 13. represents internalized ideals and provides standards for judgement and future goals; conscience
- 15. childhood stages of development during which the id's pleasure-seeking energies focus on distinct erogenous zones