Type A Psychology

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Across
  1. 2. an individual's characteristic pattern of thinking, feeling, and acting.
  2. 4. our sense of controlling our environment rather than feeling helpless.
  3. 10. Carl Jung's concept of a shared, inherited reservoir of memory traces from our species' history.
  4. 11. the part of personality that, according to Freud, represents internalized ideals and provides standards for judgment (the conscience) and for future aspirations.
  5. 14. a theory of death related anxiety
  6. 16. the most widely researched and clinically used of all personality tests.
  7. 17. psychoanalytic defense mechanism by which the ego unconsciously switches unacceptable impulses into their opposites.
  8. 18. contains a reservoir of unconscious psychic energy that, according to Freud, strives to satisfy basic sexual and aggressive drives.
  9. 19. one's feelings of high or low self-worth.
  10. 21. according to Rogers, an attitude of total acceptance toward another person.
Down
  1. 1. according to Freud, a lingering focus of pleasure-seeking energies at an earlier psycho sexual stage in which conflicts were unresolved.
  2. 3. the perception that one controls one's own fate.
  3. 5. Freud's theory of personality and therapeutic technique that attributes thoughts and actions to unconscious motives and conflicts.
  4. 6. Giving priority to one's own goals over group goals and defining one's identity in terms of personal attributes rather than group identities.
  5. 7. psychoanalytic defense mechanism by which people re-channel their unacceptable impulses into socially approved activities.
  6. 8. views behavior as influenced by the interaction between persons (and their thinking) and their social context.
  7. 9. defense mechanism that offers self-justifying explanations in place of the real, more threatening, unconscious reasons for one's actions.
  8. 12. according to Freud, a boy's sexual desires toward his mother and feelings of jealousy and hatred for the rival father.
  9. 13. in psychoanalytic theory, the basic defense mechanism that banishes anxiety-arousing thoughts, feelings, and memories from consciousness.
  10. 14. a projective test in which people express their inner feelings and interests through the stories they make up about ambiguous scenes.
  11. 15. a characteristic pattern of behavior or a disposition to feel and act, as assessed by self-report inventories and peer reports.
  12. 20. in contemporary psychology, assumed to be the center of personality,the organizer of our thoughts, feelings, and actions.