Across
- 3. a characteristic pattern of behavior or a disposition to feel and act, as assessed by self-report inventories and peer reports
- 5. giving priority to the goals of one's group (often one's extended family or work group) and defining one's identity accordingly
- 7. in contemporary psychology, assumed to be the center of personality, the organizer of our thoughts, feelings, and actions
- 8. giving priority to one's own goals to over group goals and defining one's identity in terms of personal attributes rather than than group identifications
- 11. Freud's theory of personality that attributes thoughts and actions to unconscious motives and conflicts; the techniques used in treating psychological disorders by seeking to expose and interpret unconscious tensions
- 12. in psychoanalysis, a method of exploring the unconscious in which the person relaxes and says whatever comes to mind, no matter how trivial or embarrassing
- 14. Extent to which people perceive control over their environment rather than feeling helplessness
- 16. Maslow: One of the ultimate psychological needs that arises after all other needs are fulfilled. Motivation to fulfill one's potential
Down
- 1. overestimating other's noticing and evaluating our appearance, performance, and blunders (as if we presume a spotlight shines on us)
- 2. a personality test, such as the Rorschach or TAT, that provides ambiguous stimuli designed to trigger projection of one's inner dynamics
- 4. Interacting influences of behavior, internal cognition, and environment
- 6. all our thoughts and feelings about ourselves, in answer to the question, "Who am I?"
- 9. a readiness to perceive oneself favorably
- 10. according to Freud, a lingering focus of pleasure-seeking energies at an earlier psychosexual state, in which conflicts were unresolved
- 13. an individual's characteristic pattern of thinking, feeling, and acting
- 15. one's feelings of high or low self-worth