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| A person's characteristic way of thinking, feeling, and acting. |
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| A method in psychoanalysis that has patience relax and say whatever comes to their mind (stream of consciousness) no matter how personal, embarrassing, or trivial it is. |
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| 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. |
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| According to Freud, this is a reservoir of mostly unacceptable thoughts, wishes, feelings, and memories. According to psychologists today, it is information that we don't realize is processing. (Like our body position etc.) |
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| Part of our personality that wants to satisfy basic sexual and aggressive drives. Operates on the pleasure principle. Demands immediate gratification. It works in the unconscious |
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| This part of our personality is conscious to us. It mediates between the other two parts of personality. Operates on the reality principle, satisfying the id in ways that are realistic. |
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| Part of our personality that represents internalized ideals, standards for judgment, and future aspirations. It is our conscience. It is usually at odds with the id. |
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| Ways we reduce/redirect anxiety by distorting reality. Includes Repression, regression, reaction formation, projection, rationalization, and displacement. |
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| Basic defense mechanism - banishes thoughts that lead to anxiety or negative feelings. |
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| A defense mechanism where a person faced with anxiety reverts to a more infantile psychological stage. |
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| Defense mechanism where the EGO unconsciously changes unacceptable impulses into their opposites. So someone might express feelings that are the opposite of what they actually feel. |
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| Defense mechanism where people avoid their threatening impulses by assigning them to someone else. |
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| Defense mechanism where the person gives excuses for their actions in place of real, more threatening, unconscious reasons for their actions. |
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| Defense mechanism that redirects anger toward a safer outlet. |
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| Carl Jung's theory that we all have a shored, inherited, reservoir of memory traces from our species' history. |
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| A personality test that tries to trigger the projection of a person's inner dynamics with ambiguous stimuli, i.e. TAT test and rorschach inkblot test. |
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| Thematic Apperception Test (TAT) |
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| A projective test where people express their inner feelings and interests through the stories they make up about ambitious scenes. |
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| The most widely used projective test, a set of 10 inkblots, designed by Hermann Rorschach; seeks to identify people's inner feelings by analyzing their interpretations of the blots. |
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