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| According to Jung, emotionally charged images and thought forms that have universal meaning. |
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| An interdisciplinary field that studies the influence of genetic factors on behavioral traits. |
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| A theoretical orientation based on the premise that scientific psychology should study only observable behavior. |
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A model of illness that holds that physical illness is caused by a complex interaction of
biological, psychological, and sociocultural factors. |
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| According to Jung, a storehouse of latent memory traces inherited from people's ancestral past. |
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| According to Adler, efforts to overcome imagined or real inferiorities by developing one's abilities |
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| A state that occurs when two or more incompatible motivations or behavioral impulses compete for expression. |
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| Whatever one is aware of at a particular point in time. |
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Largely unconscious reactions that protect a person from unpleasant emotions such as anxiety
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| Diverting emotional feelings (usually anger) from their original source to a substitute target. |
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| An internal state of tension that motivates an organism to engage in activities that should reduce the tension. |
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| According to Freud, the decision-making component of personality that operates according to the reality principle. |
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| People who tend to be interested in the external world of people and things. |
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| Statistical analysis of correlations among many variables to identify closely related clusters of variables. |
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| According to Freud, failure to move forward from one psychosexual stage to another as expected. |
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| The feeling that people experience in any situation in which their pursuit of some goal is thwarted. |
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| The subfield of psychology concerned with how psychosocial factors relate to the promotion and maintenance of health and with the causation, prevention, and treatment of illness. |
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| Maslow's systematic arrangement of needs according to priority, which assumes that basic needs must be met before less basic needs are aroused. |
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| The tendency to mold one's interpretation of the past to fit how events actually turned out. |
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| According to Freud, the primitive, instinctive component of personality that operates according to the pleasure principle. |
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| Twins that emerge from one zygote that splits for unknown reasons. Also called Monozygotic twins. |
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| Bolstering self-esteem by forming an imaginary or real alliance with some person or group |
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| The degree of disparity between one's self-concept and one's actual experience |
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| People who tend to be preoccupied with the internal world of their own thoughts, feelings, and experiences |
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| A person whose behavior is observed by another. |
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| Purposeful suppression of memories. |
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| Need for self-actualization |
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| The need to fulfill one's potential. |
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| According to Freud, children's manifestation of erotically tinged desires for their opposite-sex parent, accompanied by feelings of hostility toward their same-sex parent |
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