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- 5. the process by which according to Freud children incorporate their parents values into their developing superegos
- 6. the largely conscious "executive" part of personality that according to Freud mediates among the demands of the id, superego, and of reality. the ego operates on the reality principle satisfying the ids desires in ways that will realistically bring pleasure rather than pain
- 7. a personality test, such as Rorschach or TAT that provides ambiguous stimuli designed to trigger projection of one's inner dynamics
- 9. overestimating others' noticing and evaluating our appearance, performance, and blunders (as if we presume a spotlight shines on us)
- 11. that discriminate between groups
- 13. according to Freud a reservoir of mostly unacceptable thoughts, wishes, feelings and memories. According to contemporary psychologists information processing of which we are unaware
- 14. the interacting influences of behavior, internal cognition, and environment
- 15. 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
- 16. bias a readiness to perceive oneself favorably
- 17. the perception that chance or outside forces beyond your personal control determine your fate
- 20. psychoanalytic defense mechanism by which people disguise their own threatening impulses by attributing them to others
- 21. defense mechanism by which people refuse to believe or even to perceive painful realities
- 22. the scientific study of optimal human functioning; aims to discover and promote strengths and virtues that enable individuals and communities to grow
- 23. in psychoanalytic theory, the ego's protective methods of reducing anxiety by unconsciously distorting reality
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- 1. 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
- 2. all our thoughts and feelings about ourselves, in answer to the question "Who am I?"
- 3. 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 asses selected personality traits
- 4. a test such as the MPI developed by testing a pool of items and then selecting
- 8. a worldview in which social behavior is guided largely by goals that are shared by a collective, such as a family, tribe, work group, or political or religious association. Interdependence and group solidarity are valued
- 10. 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 largely conscious "executive" part of personality that according to Freud mediates among the demands of the id, superego, and of reality. the ego operates on the reality principle satisfying the ids desires in ways that will realistically bring pleasure rather than pain
- 18. according to Maslow, one of the ultimate psychological needs that arises after basic physical and psychological needs are met and self-esteem is achieved; the motivation to fulfill one's potential
- 19. psychoanalytic defense mechanism in which an individual faced with anxiety retreats to a more infantile psychosexual stage where some psychic energy remains fixated