What Is Psychology? (Key Terms)

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  1. 4. association A method used in psychoanalysis where a patient relaxes and says whatever comes to mind
  2. 6. A process in which unacceptable desires or impulses are excluded from consciousness and left to operate in the unconscious
  3. 7. stimulus A stimulus that naturally triggers a response
  4. 14. stimulus An originally neutral stimulus that comes to trigger a conditioned response after being paired with an unconditional stimulus
  5. 15. An individual's characteristic pattern of thinking, feeling, and acting
  6. 16. Universal symbols that tend to reappear over time; includes models of people, behaviours, and personalities
  7. 17. The learned response to a previously neutral stimulus
  8. 21. disorder A mental disorder involving anxiety and fear
  9. 22. Information processing in our mind that we are not aware of; according to Freud, it holds our unacceptable thoughts, feelings, and memories; according to Jung, it includes patterns
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  1. 1. A defense mechanism whereby a person attributes their own threatening impulses onto someone else
  2. 2. Freud's theory That all human behaviour is influenced by early childhood and that childhood
  3. 3. memories, instincts, and experiences common to all
  4. 5. The ego's way of distorting reality to deal with anxiety
  5. 8. Freud's term for the instinctual part of the mind, which operates on the pleasure principle
  6. 9. A defense mechanism whereby a person refuses to recognize or acknowledge something that is painful
  7. 10. The shift of an emotion from its original focus to another object, person, or situation
  8. 11. unconscious The shared, inherited pool of memories from our ancestors
  9. 12. psychology A branch of psychology founded by Carl Jung, based on the idea that balancing a person's psyche would allow the person to reach his or her full potential
  10. 13. Psychologists who modified Freud's psychoanalytic theory to include social and cultural aspects
  11. 17. Information that we are always aware of; our conscious mind performs the thinking when we take in new information
  12. 18. influence the unconscious mind throughout life
  13. 19. Freud's term for the rational part of the mind, which operates on the reality principle
  14. 20. theory An approach to therapy that focuses on resolving a patient's conflicted conscious and unconscious feelings psychoanalytic theory
  15. 23. Freud's term for the moral centre of the mind