Across
- 2. according to Freud, a reservoir of mostly unacceptable thoughts, wishes, feelings, and memories. According to contemporary psychologists, information processing of which we are unaware
- 3. according to Maslow, one of the ultimate psychological needs that arises after basic physical and psychological needs are met and self-esteem is achieved
- 13. in contemporary psychology, assumed to be the center of personality, the oranizer of our thoughts, feelings, and actions
- 14. the process by which, according to Freud, children incorporate their parent's values into their developing superegos
- 16. the scientific study of optimal human functioning; aims to discover and promote strengths and virtues that enable individuals and communities to thrive
- 17. a characteristic pattern of behavior or a disposition to feel and act, as assessed by self-report inventories and peer reports
- 18. psychoanalytic defense mechanism that offers self-justifying explanations in place of the real, more threatening unconscious reasons for one's actions
- 20. psychoanalytic defense mechanism by which the ego unconsciously switches unacceptable impulses into their opposites
- 22. according to freud a boy's sexual desire toward his mother and feelings of jealousy and hatred for the rival father
- 24. a psychoanalytic theory the basic defence mechanism that banishes anxiety arousing thoughts and feelings and memories from consciousness
- 26. in psychoanalytic theory, the ego's protective methods of reducing anxiety by unconsciously distorting reality
- 28. psychoanalytic defense mechanism that shifts sexual or aggressive impulses toward a more acceptable or less threatening object or person, as when redirecting anger toward a safer outlet
- 31. a personality test, such as the Rorschach or TAT, that provides ambiguous stimuli designed to trigger projection of one's inner dynamics
- 33. psychoanalytic defense mechanism in which an individual faced with anxiety retreats to a more infantile psychosexual stage, where some psychic energy remains fixated
- 36. freud's feeling of personality and therapeutic technique that attributes thoughts and actions to unconscious motives and conflicts
- 37. the largely conscious, "executie" part of personality that, according to Freud, mediates among the demands of the id, superego, and reality
- 38. giving priority to goals of one's group and defining one's identity accordingly
- 39. Carl Jung's concept of a shared, inherited reservoir of memory traces from our species' history
- 40. all our thoughts and feelings about ourselves, in answer to the question "Who am I?"
- 41. psychoanalytic defense mechanism by which people re-channel their unacceptable impulses into socially approved activities
- 42. the process of forming a stable personality
- 44. the perception that chance r outside forces beyond your personal control determine your fate
Down
- 1. the childhood stages of development during which, according to Freud, the id's pleasure-seeking energies focus on distinct erogenous zones
- 4. a test developed by testing a pool of items and then selecting those that discriminate between groups
- 5. the inability to see a problem from a new perspective by empowering a different mental set
- 6. views behavior as influenced by interaction between people's traits (including their thinking) and their social context
- 7. a readiness to perceive oneself favorably
- 8. a well-researched and respected test designed to help mental health professionals diagnose mental health disorders and conditions
- 9. a caring, accepting, nonjudgmental attitude, which Carl Rogers believed wold help clients to develop self-awareness and self-acceptance
- 10. the interacting infl
- 11. in psychoanalysis, a method of exploring the unconscious in which the person relaxes and says whatever comes to mind, no matter how trivial or embarrassing
- 12. the perception that you control your own fate
- 15. a theory of death-related anxiety; explores people's emotional and behavioral responses to reminders of their impending death
- 19. a widely used projective test for the assignment of children and adults
- 21. a questionnaire on which people respond to items designed to gauge a wide range of feelings and behaviors
- 23. psychoanalytic defense mechanism by which people disguise their own threatening impulses by attributing them to others
- 25. psychoanalytic defense mechanism by which people refuse to believe or even to perceive painful realities
- 27. one's feelings of high or low self-worth
- 29. an individual's characteristic pattern of thinking, feeling, and acting
- 30. of behavior internal cognition, and environment
- 32. the most widely used projective test, a set of 10 inkblots, designed by Hermann Rorschach; seeks to identify people's inner feelings by analyzing their interpretations of the blots
- 34. overestimating others; noticing and evaluating our appearance, performance, and blunders
- 35. the part of personality that according to freud represents internalized ideas and provides standards for judgement and for future aspirations
- 36. the extent to which people perceive control over their environment rather than feeling helpless
- 43. a reservoir of unconscious psychic energy that according to freud strives to satisfy basic sexual and aggressive drives