Freud’s Mind Map
Freud believed the part of personality that seeks immediate gratification and pleasure is the ____.
What is the id?
Retreating to an earlier stage of development, like thumb-sucking under stress.
What is regression?
This approach focuses on learning, reinforcement, and environment’s role in shaping personality.
What is the behavioral approach?
A personality test that uses ambiguous images to reveal inner thoughts or motives.
What is a projective test?
The most widely accepted model of personality traits uses this acronym.
What is OCEAN?
The “moral compass” that strives for perfection and judges actions is the ____.
What is the superego?
Shifting aggressive impulses to a safer target — like yelling at a sibling instead of a boss.
What is displacement?
Carl Rogers emphasized the need for this attitude of total acceptance to develop a healthy self-concept.
What is unconditional positive regard?
The name of the test where people view inkblots and describe what they see.
What is the Rorschach Inkblot Test?
People high in this Big Five trait are organized, disciplined, and goal-directed.
What is conscientiousness?
This part of personality operates on the reality principle and mediates between the id and superego.
What is the ego?
Switching unacceptable impulses into their opposites, acting overly friendly when you’re angry.
What is reaction formation?
This theory stresses unconscious conflicts, motives, and childhood experiences.
What is the psychodynamic theory?
This projective test asks people to create stories about ambiguous scenes.
What is the Thematic Apperception Test (TAT)?
This personality dimension includes trust, altruism, and cooperativeness.
What is agreeableness?
Name the three levels of Freud’s iceberg model of the mind.
What are the conscious, preconscious, and unconscious?
Offering self-justifying explanations for bad behavior instead of admitting the true motives.
What is rationalization?
Albert Bandura’s model of personality that includes behavior, cognition, and environment interacting.
What is reciprocal determinism (or the social cognitive theory)?
This type of test uses questionnaires and self-report inventories to measure traits.
What is a personality inventory?
The tendency to overestimate how much others notice our appearance or mistakes.
What is the spotlight effect?
Freud believed anxiety is reduced when the ego uses these unconscious methods of distorting reality.
What are defense mechanisms?
Channeling unacceptable impulses into socially valued activities, like boxing instead of fighting.
What is sublimation?
This innate human drive pushes people toward growth, fulfillment, and realizing their potential.
What is the self-actualizing tendency?
The statistical method used to find clusters of related test items to identify traits.
What is factor analysis?
The belief in one’s ability to succeed in specific tasks or situations.
What is self-efficacy?