What Is Psychology? (Key Terms)

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  1. 2. 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
  2. 7. influence the unconscious mind throughout life
  3. 9. disorder A mental disorder involving anxiety and fear
  4. 11. The ego's way of distorting reality to deal with anxiety
  5. 12. 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
  6. 14. Freud's term for the rational part of the mind, which operates on the reality principle
  7. 15. Psychologists who modified Freud's psychoanalytic theory to include social and cultural aspects
  8. 16. Freud's theory That all human behaviour is influenced by early childhood and that childhood
  9. 17. The shift of an emotion from its original focus to another object, person, or situation
  10. 20. Information that we are always aware of; our conscious mind performs the thinking when we take in new information
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  1. 1. A defense mechanism whereby a person refuses to recognize or acknowledge something that is painful
  2. 3. unconscious The shared, inherited pool of memories from our ancestors
  3. 4. An individual's characteristic pattern of thinking, feeling, and acting
  4. 5. association A method used in psychoanalysis where a patient relaxes and says whatever comes to mind
  5. 6. A defense mechanism whereby a person attributes their own threatening impulses onto someone else
  6. 8. A process in which unacceptable desires or impulses are excluded from consciousness and left to operate in the unconscious
  7. 10. theory An approach to therapy that focuses on resolving a patient's conflicted conscious and unconscious feelings psychoanalytic theory
  8. 13. memories, instincts, and experiences common to all
  9. 16. Freud's term for the moral centre of the mind
  10. 18. Freud's term for the instinctual part of the mind, which operates on the pleasure principle
  11. 19. Universal symbols that tend to reappear over time; includes models of people, behaviours, and personalities