The part of personality that operates on the pleasure principle.
What is the id?
Explaining away a problem to avoid blame or guilt.
What is rationalization?
This psychologist created the hierarchy of needs.
Who is Abraham Maslow?
The most common personality inventory.
What is the MMPI?
The belief that you can succeed at a task.
What is self-efficacy?
Freud believed this part of the mind stores hidden wishes, thoughts, and feelings.
What is the unconscious?
Taking anger out on someone other than the original source.
What is displacement?
According to Rogers, showing total acceptance and support is called this.
What is unconditional positive regard?
These tests use vague or unclear stimuli to reveal unconscious thoughts and feelings.
What are projective tests?
Carl Jung believed humans share universal ideas called these.
What are archetypes?
he process of saying whatever comes to mind without filtering thoughts.
What is free association?
Returning to childish behavior during stress.
What is regression?
The highest level of Maslow’s hierarchy.
What is self-actualization?
This personality theory organizes personality into five broad traits often remembered by the acronym OCEAN.
What is the Big Five Factor Theory?
A person acting differently around friends than during a presentation shows this idea.
What is situation matters?
The ____ follows this principle to balance desires with reality.
What is the ego?
A student who is angry at a classmate accuses the classmate of “having a bad attitude” toward them, even though the anger actually comes from the student themselves.
What is projection?
Carl Rogers used this term for the image we have of ourselves.
What is self-concept?
This projective test asks people to describe what they see in inkblots.
What is the Rorschach Inkblot Test?
A person’s broad, long-lasting pattern of thinking, feeling, and acting.
What is personality?
Freud believed this part of personality acts as a moral compass and creates feelings of guilt.
What is the superego?
Channeling unacceptable impulses, such as punching a wall in anger, into positive activities.
What is sublimation?
This part of self-concept represents the person someone would most like to become.
What is the ideal self?
This Big Five trait involves anxiety and emotional instability.
What is neuroticism?
Freud believed personality results from the conflict between impulses and _______________
What are social restraints (or societal expectations)?