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Psychoanalytic Perspective 1
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Freud's theory of personality and therapeutic technique that attributes the thoughts and actions to unconscious motives and conflicts.
What is psychoanalysis?
100
The most widely used projective test which seeks to identify people's inner feelings by analyzing interpretations
What is the Rorschach Inkblot Test?
100
A characteristic pattern of behavior or disposition to feel and act
What is a trait?
100
The perception that you are in control of your own fate.
What is an internal locus of control?
100

Social theorist who conducted the Bobo Doll experiment.

Who is Albert Bandura?

200
A reservoir of unconscious psychic energy that, according to Freud, strives to satisfy basic sexual and aggressive drives.
What is the id?
200
The part of personality that, according to Freud, represents internalized ideals and provides standards for judgment and future aspirations
What is the superego?
200
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?
200
A tendency to see the worst aspect of things or believe that the worst will happen; a lack of hope or confidence in the future
What is pessimism?
200
Giving priority to goals of one's group and defining one's identity accordingly.
What is collectivism?
300
In psychoanalytic theory, the basic defense mechanism that banishes anxiety-arousing thoughts, feelings, and memories from consciousness.
What is repression?
300
The largely unconscious, "executive" part of personality that, according to Freud mediates among the demands of desires and rules.
What is the ego?
300
A questionnaire (often with true-false or agree-disagree items) on which people respond to items designed to gauge a wide range of feelings and behaviors
What is a personality inventory?
300

The perception that chance or outside forces beyond your personal control determine your fate.

What is external locus of control?

300

Neo-Freudian; offered feminist critique of Freud's theory

Who is Karen Horney?

400

Defense mechanism that offers self-justifying explanations in place of the real, more threatening, unconscious reasons for one's actions


What is rationalization?

400
The childhood stages of development during , according to Freud, the id's pleasure-seeking energies focus on distinct erogenous zones.
What are psychosexual stages?
400
All our thoughts and feelings about ourselves, in answer to the question, "Who am I?"
What is our self-concept?
400

one's sense of competence and effectiveness

self-efficacy

400
One's feelings of high or low self-worth
What is self-esteem?
500
The psychoanalytic defense mechanism by which the ego unconsciously switches unacceptable impulses into the opposites. Thus, people may express feelings that are the opposite of their anxiety-arousing unconscious feelings.
What is reaction formation?
500
The psychoanalytic defense mechanism by which people re-channel their unacceptable impulses into socially approved activities.
What is sublimation?
500
A caring, accepting, nonjudgmental attitude which Carl Rogers believed would help clients to develop self-awareness and self-acceptance.
What is unconditional positive regard?
500
The interacting influences of behavior, internal cognition, and environment. For example, a child’s tv viewing habits (past behavior) influence their viewing preference (internal factor), which influence how television (environmental factor) affect’s their current behavior.
What is reciprocal determinism?
500
A readiness to perceive oneself favorably
What is the self-serving bias?