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| The psychological qualities that bring continuity to an individual's behavior in different situations at different times. |
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| Freud's system of treatment for mental disorders. The term is often used to refer to psychoanalytic theory |
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| The psychic domain of which the individual is not aware but that is the storehouse of repressed impulses, drives and conflicts unavailable to conciousness |
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| Freudian concept of psychic energy that drives individuals to experience sensual pleasure |
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| The primitive unconscious portion of the personality that houses the most basic drives and stores repressed memories |
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| The mind's storehouse of values, including moral attitudes learned from parents and society; roughly the same as the common notion of the conscience |
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| The conscious, rational part of the personality, charged with keeping peace between superego and the id |
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| successive instinctive patterns of associating pleasure with stimulation of specific bodily areas at different times of life |
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| unconscious process toward where boys displace erotic attraction toward their mother to females of their own age and at the same time identify with their fathers |
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| Process by which an individual tries to become like another person, especially, a same-sex parent |
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| the female desire to have a penis-a condition that usually results in their attraction to males |
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| when psychosexual development is arrested at an immature stage |
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| Largely unconscious mental strategies employed to reduce the experience of conflict or anxiety |
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| An unconscious process that excludes unacceptable thoughts and feeling from awareness and memory |
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| Personality assessment instruments which are based on ego defense mechanism of projection |
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| Rorschach inkblot technique |
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| A projective test requiring subjects to describe what they see in ten inkblots |
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| Thematic Apperception Test |
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| A projective test requiring subjects to make up stories that explain ambiguous pictures |
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| assumption that all mental and behavioral responses are caused by unconscious traumas, desires, or conflicts |
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| Theorists who broke with Freud but whose theories retain a psychodynamic aspect, especially focus on motivation as the source of energy for personality |
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| Jung's term for the portion of the unconscious corresponding roughly to id |
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| Jung's addition to the unconscious, involving a reservoir for instinctive memories including archetypes which exist in all people. |
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| ancient memory images in the collective unconscious. They appear and reappear in art and literature around the world |
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| dimension that focuses on inner experiences-one's own thoughts and feelings-making the introvert less outgoing and sociable |
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| dimension involving turning one's attention outward toward others. |
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| An emotion proposed by Karen Horney, that gives a sense of uncertainty and loneliness in a hostile world that can lead to maladjustment |
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| Signs of neurosis in Horney's theory, these 10 needs are normal desires carried to a neurotic extreme . |
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