Personality Review

5. overestimating others’ noticing and evaluating our appearance, performance, and blunders.
6. the most widely researched and clinically used of all personality tests. Originally developed to identify emotional disorders.
8. a reservoir of mostly unacceptable thoughts, wishes, feelings, and memories. According to contemporary psychologists, information processing of which we are unaware.
10. a person’s characteristic pattern of thinking, feeling, and acting.
11. the tendency to overestimate the extent to which others share our beliefs and our behaviors.
13. this perspective focuses on the effects of learning on our personality development.
15. a personality test, such as the Rorschach, that provides ambiguous stimuli designed to trigger projection of one’s inner dynamics.
16. a person's sense of self-esteem or self-importance.
17. giving priority to the goals of one’s group and defining one’s identity accordingly.
18. a lingering focus of pleasure - seeking energies at an earlier psychosexual stage, in which conflicts were unresolved.
19. giving priority to one’s own goals over group goals and defining one’s identity in terms of personal attributes rather than group identifications.
20. excessive self-love and self-absorption

1. Freud’s theory of personality that attributes thoughts and actions to unconscious motives and conflicts; the techniques used in treating psychological disorders by seeking to expose and interpret unconscious tensions.
2. the process by which, according to Freud, children incorporate their parents’ values into their developing superegos.
3. the voice of our moral compass that forces the ego to consider not only the real but the ideal.
4. a questionnaire on which people respond to items designed to gauge a wide range of feelings and behaviors; used to assess selected personality traits.
7. view personality with a focus on the potential for healthy personal growth.
9. the basic defense mechanism that banishes from consciousness anxiety -arousing thoughts, feelings, and memories.
12. people’s characteristic behaviors and conscious motives
14. the ego’s protective methods of reducing anxiety by unconsciously distorting reality.