VOCAB TERMS
A balanced state in which all needs are met.
What is Homeostasis
In psychoanalytic theory, the ego's protective method of reducing anxiety by unconsciously distorting reality.
what are Defense mechanisms?
According to Freud, a reservoir of mostly unacceptable thoughts, wishes, feelings, and memories. According to contemporary psychologists, information processing of which we are unaware.
what is Unconscious?
The Hunger Control center in the brain
Hypothalamus
Carl Jung's concept of a shared inherited reservoir of memory traces from our species' history.
what is Collective unconscious?
A personality test that breaks personality into measurable characteristics whose combination explain basic personality traits.
What is Factor Analysis
Psychoanalytic defense mechanism by which people disguise their own threatening impulses by attributing them to others.
what is projection?
A reservoir of unconscious psychic energy that, according to Freud, strives to satisfy basic sexual and aggressive drives. It operates on the pleasure principle, demanding immediate gratification.
what is ID?
What is Perceptual Set
The Memory Save function of the brain occurs here.
What is the Hippocampus
According to Rogers, an attitude of total acceptance toward another person.
what is Unconditional positive regard?
Psychoanalytic defense mechanism in which an individual faced with anxiety retreats to a more infantile psychosexual stage, where some psychic energy remains fixated.
what is Regression?
The largely conscious, "executive" part of the personality that, according to Freud, mediates among the demands of the id, superego, and reality. It operates on the reality principle, satisfying the id's desires in ways that will realistically bring pleasure rather than pain.
what is ego?
A personality test, such as the Rorschach or TAT. that provides ambiguous stimuli designed to trigger projection of one's inner dynamics.
what is a Projective test?
Emotional processing that travels through the prefrontal cortex before entering the amygdala.
High Road Processing
The perception that you control your own fate.
what is Internal locus of control?
A psychoanalytic defense mechanism that shifts sexual or aggressive impulses toward a more acceptable or less threatening object or person, as when redirecting anger toward a safer outlet.
what is Displacement?
The part of the personality that represents internalized ideals and provides standards for judgment (the conscience) and for future aspirations.
what is the superego?
The perception that chance or outside forces beyond your personal control determine your fate
what is External locus of control?
Most widely researched and clinically used of all personality tests. originally developed to identify emotional disorders (Still considered its most appropriate use), this test is now used for many other purposes.
what is the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI)?
Performance under stress operates as such: Performance improves with increased excitement but decreases once the level of excitement has increased too far.
What is Yerkes-Dodson Law
A woman who recently went through a breakup may channel her emotions into a home improvement project.
What is Sublimation
according to Maslow, one of the ultimate psychological needs that arises after basic physical and psychological needs are met and self-esteem is achieved; the motivation to fulfill one's potential.
what is Self-actualization?
a method of exploring the unconscious in which the person relaxes and says whatever comes to mind, no matter how trivial or embarrassing
what is free association?
The interacting influences of behavior, internal cognition, and environment.
what is Reciprocal determinism?