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| an individual’s characteristic style of behaving, thinking, and feeling |
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| a series of awareness to a questionnaire that asks people to indicate the extent to which sets of statements or adjectives accurately describe their own behavior or mental state |
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| a standard series of ambiguous stimuli designed to elicit unique responses that reveal inner aspects of an individual’s personality |
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| a relatively stable disposition to behave in a particular and consistent way |
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| conscientiousness, agreeableness, neuroticism, openness to experience, and extraversion |
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| the part of the mind containing the drives present at birth; it is the source of our bodily needs, wants, desires, and impulses, particularly our sexual and aggressive drives |
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| the component of personality, developed through contact with the external world, that enables us to deal with life’s practical demands |
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| the mental system that reflects the internalization of cultural rules, mainly learned as parents exercise their authority |
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| unconscious coping mechanisms that reduce anxiety generated by threats from unacceptable impulses |
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| a defense mechanism that involves supplying a reasonable-sounding explanation for unacceptable feelings and behavior to conceal (mostly from oneself) one’s underlying motives or feelings |
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| a defense mechanism that involves unconsciously replacing threatening inner wishes and fantasies with an exaggerated version of their opposite |
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| a defense mechanism that involves attributing one’s own threatening feelings, motives or impulses to another person or group |
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| a defense mechanism in which the ego deals with internal conflict and perceived threat by reverting to an immature behavior or earlier stage or development |
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| a defense mechanism that involves shifting unacceptable wishes or drives to a neutral or less-threatening alternative |
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| a defense mechanism that helps deal with feelings of threat and anxiety by enabling us unconsciously to take on the characteristics of another person who seems more powerful or better able to cope |
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| a defense mechanism that involves channeling unacceptable sexual or aggressive drives into socially acceptable and culturally enhancing activities |
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| distinct early life stages through which personality is formed as children experience sexual pleasures from specific body areas and caregivers redirect or interfere with those pleasures |
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| a phenomenon in which a person’s pleasure-seeking drives become psychologically stuck, or arrested, at a particular psychosexual stage |
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| the first psychosexual stage, in which experience centers on the pleasures and frustrations associated with the mouth, sucking and being fed |
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| the second psychosexual stage, which is dominated by the pleasures and frustrations associated with the anus, retention, and expulsion of feces and urine, and toilet training |
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| the third psychosexual stage, during which experience is dominated by the pleasure, conflict, and frustration associated with the phallic-genital region as well as coping with powerful incestuous feelings of love, hate, jealousy, and conflict |
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| the fourth psychosexual stage, in which the primary focus is on the further development of intellectual, creative, interpersonal, and athletic skills |
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| the final psychosexual stage, a time for the coming together of the mature adult personality with a capacity to love, work, and relate to others in a mutually satisfying and reciprocal manner |
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| a person’s explicit knowledge of his or her own behaviors, traits, and other personal characteristics |
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