This operates on the pleasure principle, demanding immediate gratification.
What is the ID?
100
This operates on the reality principle, satisfying the ID's desires in ways that will realistically bring pleasure rather than pain.
What is EGO?
100
The represents internalized ideals and provides standards for judgment (conscience) and for future goals.
What is the superego?
100
This is the most widely researched and clinically used of all the personality tests.
What is the MMPI?
100
The perception that chance or outside forces beyond your personal control determine your fate.
What is external locus of control?
200
According to Freud, this comprises the top of the "iceberg", and these comprise the bottom.
What are EGO and ID/SUPEREGO?
200
These are the 4 personality structures mentioned in Unit 10.
What are psychoanalysis, humanistic, trait, and social cognitive?
200
Psychoanalytic defense mechanism by which the ego unconsciously switches unacceptable impulses into their opposites.
What is reaction formation?
200
All of our thoughts and feelings about ourselves, in answer to the question, "Who am I?"
What is self concept?
200
The perception that you control your own fate.
What is internal locus of control?
300
Freud's theory of personality that attributes thoughts and actions to unconscious motives and conflicts.
What is psychoanalysis?
300
According to Freud, this defense mechanism underlies all other defense mechanisms.
What is repression?
300
Psychoanalytic defense mechanism that shifts sexual or aggressive impulses toward a more acceptable or less threatening object or person.
What is displacement?
300
A characteristic pattern of behavior or a disposition to feel and act.
What is trait?
300
A readiness to perceive oneself favorably.
What is self serving bias?
400
in Psychoanalysis, a method of expoloring the unconscious in which the person relaxes and says whatever comes to mind.
What is free association?
400
In trait perspective, this technique identifies clusters of correlated test items that tap basic components of intelligence.
What is factor analysis?
400
Carl Jung's concept of a shared, inherited reservoir of memory traces from our species' history.
What is collective unconscious?
400
Views behavior as influenced by the interaction between people's traits and their social context.
What is social cognitive perspective?
400
Process by which, according to Freud, children incorporate their parents' values into their developing superegos.
What is identification?
500
According to Freud, a reservoir of mostly unacceptable thoughts, wishes, feelings and memories.
What is unconscious?
500
The childhood stages of development during which, according to Freud, the id's pleasure seeking energies focus on distinct erogenous zones.
What are psychosexual stages?
500
According to Maslow, one of the ultimate psychological needs that arises after basic physical and psychological needs are met and self esteem is achieved.
What is self actualization?
500
The interacting influences of behavior, internal cognition, and environment.
What is reciprocal determinism?
500
Psychoanalytic defense mechanism that offers self justifying explanations in place of the real, more threatening, unconscious reasons for one's actions.