Personality Vocab List A

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Across
  1. 3. the theory that thoughts & actions have unconscious motives used in treating psychological disorders
  2. 7. the extent to which people feel control over their environment
  3. 9. an individual’s characteristic patterns of thinking, feeling, & acting
  4. 10. unconscious psychic energy that wants to satisfy sexual & aggresive urges (operates on pleasure principle)
  5. 12. basic defense mechanism that ignores anxiety-inducing thoughts, feelings, & memories
  6. 13. center of one’s personality; organizer of thoughts, feelings, & actions
  7. 14. projective test in which people reveal inner thoughts & feelings through made-up stories for ambiguous scenes
  8. 16. most researched & used personality test that was developed to identify emotional disorders
  9. 17. lasting focus of pleasure-seeking energy from an earlier psychosexual stage with unresolved conflicts
  10. 19. theory of death-related anxiety that explores people’s responses to reminders of their impending death
  11. 20. prioritizing one’s goals over group goals & defining one’s identity accordingly
  12. 21. a characteristic disposition or pattern of behavior
  13. 22. an attitude of complete & total acceptance towards another
Down
  1. 1. part of the personality that represents internalized ideals & provides standards for judgments & aspirations
  2. 2. shared, inherited reservoir of memory traces from human history
  3. 4. idea that behavior is influenced by interactions between people’s traits & social context
  4. 5. one’s feelings of self-worth
  5. 6. the perception that one can control their own fate
  6. 8. defense mechanism in which socially unacceptable impulses into socially approved ones
  7. 11. defense mechanism in which the ego unconsciously switches unacceptable impulse to their opposite
  8. 15. defense mechanism that offers justification rather than the real, unconscious reasons for one’s actions
  9. 18. a boy’s sexual feelings for his mother & feelings of hatred/jealousy towards his father