Sigmund Freuds Theory of Personality

1. Someone that refuses to accept something unpleasant is likely in _______ .
3. The part of your personality that represents the conscience.
4. Stage Stage that occurs between the ages of 3 and 5, focuses on the genitals.
5. Mechanisms The egos protective methods of reducing anxiety by unconsciously distorting reality.
7. Principle The ___________ ________ works to satisfy the demands of the id in ways that are realistic and socially acceptable.
9. A defense mechanism where one believes or states an acceptable explanation for a behavior as opposed to the real explanation.
11. The balance between your basic urges and your morals.
12. stage The stage that focuses on biting and sucking, occurs from birth until the age of one.
13. Formation _________ reverses an unacceptable impulse, causing an anxious person to express the opposite of the anxiety provoking unconscious feeling.
14. The energy created by the survival and sexual instincts
16. ___________ disguises threatening feelings of guilty anxiety by attracting the problems to others.

1. __________ is when a person shifts an unacceptable impulse onto a less threatening or more accepting object or person.
2. The defense mechanism that transforms socially unacceptable impulses into socially accepted actions or behaviors.
6. A boys wish to posesse his mother sexually, will also show hostility towards father.
8. A girls wishes to posesse her father, she will also show hostility towards her mother.
9. When a person banishes anxiety arousing thoughts and memories from consciousness, they are showing signs of _________.
10. _________ is a defense mechanism that allows an anxious person to retreat to a comfortable infantile stage.
15. Principle The principles of right and wrong that are accepted by an individual or a social group
17. The part of personality made up of unconscious energy that is focuses on fulfilling urges and desires.