People
Vocab
Big Five
Defense Mechanisms
Random
100

This person formed the Psychoanalytic approach and focused on the unconscious mind.

Sigmund Freud

100

Your characteristic pattern of thinking, feeling, and acting.

Personality

100

This Big Five trait reflects how kind, cooperative, and trusting someone is.

Agreeableness

100

This is the refusal to accept the reality of anything bad or upsetting.

Denial

100

This aspect of the psychoanalytic theory wants things now and represents basic drives.

Id

200

This person proposed the Humanistic Approach.

Abraham Maslow

200

This focuses on the rights and concerns of an individual person.

Individualism

200

This Big Five trait shows how curious, imaginative, and open to new experiences someone is.

Openness

200

This moves anxiety causing ideas by pushing them into the unconscious.

Repression

200

This is the understanding that in the real world we cannot always get what we want.

Reality Principle

300

This person found that traits are the building blocks of personality. 

Gordon Allport

300

These are methods that the Ego uses to avoid recognizing ideas or emotions that may cause personal anxiety.

Defense Mechanisms

300

This Big Five trait shows how outgoing, sociable, and energetic someone is.

Extraversion

300

The return to a behavior that is a characteristic of an earlier stage of life.

Regression

300

This motivates us to behave in a socially responsible and acceptable manner.

Morality Principle

400

These two people created the theory of behaviorism.

John B. Watson and B.F. Skinner

400

This approach is based on the idea that all behaviors are acquired through conditioning.

Behaviorism

400

This Big Five trait measures how organized, responsible, and dependable someone is.

Conscientiousness

400

The transfer of an idea or impulse from a threatening or unsuitable object to a less threatening one.

Displacement

400

This is a questionnaire on which people respond to items designed to gauge a wide range of feelings and behaviors.

Personality Inventory

500

This person proposed the social learning theory.

Albert Bandura

500

This approach believes that people are truly free to do as they choose their lives.

Humanistic

500

This Big Five trait shows how prone someone is to experiencing negative emotions like anxiety or mood swings.

Neuroticism

500

This is an act opposite of someone's true feelings in order to hide true feelings.

Reaction Formation
500

This type of test focuses on the abnormal traits of people.

Minnesota Multiphase Personality Inventory