PSY200 Personality Crossword

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Across
  1. 4. Overestimating others’ noticing and evaluating our appearance and actions
  2. 5. In contemporary psychology, the center of personality; the organizer of thoughts, feelings, and actions
  3. 7. A theory of personality that views human behavior as a dynamic interaction between conscious and unconscious
  4. 10. A projective test that uses inkblots to analyze personality
  5. 11. Giving priority to goals of one’s group and defining identity accordingly
  6. 14. Views behavior as influenced by interaction between traits and social context
  7. 16. The part of personality that operates on the pleasure principle and seeks immediate gratification
  8. 19. One’s feelings of high or low self-worth
  9. 21. Giving priority to one’s own goals over group goals
  10. 24. The ego’s protective methods of reducing anxiety by unconsciously distorting reality
  11. 26. A questionnaire used to assess selected personality traits
  12. 27. The five broad factors of personality: openness, conscientiousness, extraversion, agreeableness, neuroticism
  13. 28. A characteristic pattern of behavior or disposition to feel and act
  14. 29. One’s sense of competence and effectiveness
  15. 31. The interacting influences of behavior, internal cognition, and environment
  16. 32. Enduring characteristics that describe an individual’s behavior
Down
  1. 1. A widely researched clinical personality test (use abbreviation: MMPI)
  2. 2. According to Maslow, the motivation to fulfill one’s full potential
  3. 3. An individual’s characteristic pattern of thinking, feeling, and acting
  4. 6. The founder of psychoanalysis
  5. 8. A personality test that provides ambiguous stimuli to trigger projection of inner thoughts
  6. 9. Excessive self-love and self-absorption
  7. 12. A common personality test originally developed to identify emotional disorders
  8. 13. A caring, accepting, nonjudgmental attitude that Carl Rogers believed promotes self-awareness
  9. 15. Childhood stages of development where the id’s pleasure-seeking energies focus on different erogenous zones
  10. 17. A view of personality with a focus on potential for healthy personal growth
  11. 18. A reservoir of mostly unacceptable thoughts, wishes, feelings, and memories
  12. 20. The part of personality that represents internalized ideals and standards for judgment
  13. 22. The basic defense mechanism that banishes anxiety-arousing thoughts from consciousness
  14. 23. A test developed by selecting items that discriminate between groups
  15. 25. The part of personality that operates on the reality principle and mediates demands of the id and superego
  16. 30. A lingering focus of pleasure-seeking energies at an earlier psychosexual stage