Across
- 3. the interacting influences of behavior, internal cognition, and environment
- 4. psychoanalytic defense mechanism that shifts sexual or aggression impulses toward a more acceptable or less threatening object or person,as when redirecting anger toward a safer object
- 7. psychoanalytic defense mechanism in which people disguise their own threatening impulses by attributing them with others
- 12. according to Maslow, one of the ultimate psychological needs that arises after the basic physical and psychological needs are met and self-esteem is achieved, the motivation to fulfill one's potential
- 13. psychoanalytic defense mechanism in which people refuse to believe or even perceive painful experiences
- 15. overestimating others noticing and evaluating our appearance, performance, and blunders (as if we presume a spotlight shines on us)
- 17. psychoanalytic defense mechanisms in which an individual faced with anxiety retreats to a more infantile psychosexual stage, where some psychic energy remains fixated
- 19. the largely conscious,executive part of personality that mediates among demands of the id, superego,and reality. Operates on the reality principle, satisfying the id's desires in a way that will realistically bring pleasure rather than pain
- 21. giving priority to goals of one group (often one's extended family or work group) and defining one's identity accordingly
- 22. a questionnaire (often with true-false, agree-disagree statements) on which people respond to items designed to gauge a wide range of feelings and behaviors, used to assess specific personality traits
Down
- 1. a reservoir of mostly unacceptable thoughts, wishes, feelings, and memories. According to contemporary psychologists, information processing of which we are unaware.
- 2. a personality test that provides ambiguous stimuli designed to trigger projection of one's inner dynamics
- 5. 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 inkblots
- 6. a test developed by testing a pool of items and then selecting those that discriminate between groups
- 8. the perception that chance or outside forces beyond your control determine your fate
- 9. the scientific study of optimal human functioning, aims to discover and promote strengths and virtues that enable individuals and communities to thrive
- 10. in psychoanalytic theory,the ego's protective methods of reducing anxiety by unconsciously distorting reality
- 11. the process by which children incorporate their parents values into their superego's
- 14. the childhood stages of development during which the id's pleasure seeking energies focus on distinct erogenous zones
- 16. a method of exploring the unconscious in which the person relaxes and says whatever comes to mind, no matter how trivial or embarrassing
- 18. all our thoughts and feelings about ourselves, in an answer to the question "Who am I?"
- 20. a readiness to perceive oneself favorably