What Is Psychology? (Key Terms)

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