What is conscious part of the personality that mediates among the demands of the id, superego and reality.
100
Define defense mechanism.
What is ego's protective methods of reducing anxiety by unconsciously distorting reality.
100
Define the social-cognitive perspective.
What is views behavior as influenced by the interaction between people's traits and their social context.
100
According to Sigmund Freud's psychoanalytic theory of personality, personality is composed of three elements. What are these three elements?
What is id, superego and ego.
100
Define regression.
What is basic defense mechanism that banishes anxiety arousing thoughts.
200
Define superego.
What is part of the personality that represents internalized ideals and provides standards for judgement.
200
Name the defense mechanism which an individual faced with anxiety retreats to an infantile psychosexual stage.
What is regression.
200
Who proposed self-actualization?
What is Maslow.
200
Carl Rogers developed a humanist personality theory that emphasized the importance of self-actualizing tendency in forming a self-________.
What is concept.
200
What is the goal of displacement?
What is to shift sexual or aggressive impulses toward a more acceptable object or person.
300
What does the id do?
What is satisfies basic sexual and aggressive drives.
300
Give an example of rationalization.
What is example: "I cheated on my math test, but it's okay because five other people did too."
300
Define psychosexual stage and give an example of one stage.
What is childhood stages of development where id's pleasure seeking energies focus on erogenous zones. The Oral Stage.
300
Abraham Maslow believed that needs are similar to instincts and play a major role in motivating behavior. Name the five needs he composed in his pyramid from bottom to top.
What is physiological, security, social, esteem and self-actualization.
300
Denial is a defense mechanism which people refuse to believe ______ _______.
What is painful realities.
400
Define and give an example of personality.
What is individual's characteristic pattern of thinking, feeling and acting. Examples: shy, reserved, outgoing
400
Define projection.
What is defense mechanism which people disguise their own threatening impulses by attribution them to others.
400
Define identification.
What is process where children incorporate their parents' values into their superegos.
400
How many personality types did Carl Jung define?
What is eight. (extroverted thinking, introverted thinking, extroverted feeling, introverted feeling, extroverted sensing, introverted sensing, extroverted intuitive, introverted intuitive)
400
Who created the collective unconscious?
What is Carl Jung. (Shared memory traced from our species' history)
500
What does the unconscious mind contain?
What is unacceptable thoughts, wishes, feelings and memories.
500
Define reaction formation.
What is defense mechanism where the ego unconsciously switches unacceptable impulses into their opposites.
500
What is fixation focused on?
What is pleasure-seeking energies at an earlier psychosexual stage.
500
Psychoanalytic theorist Karen Horney developed one of the best known theories of neurosis. She believed that neurosis resulted from basic _____ caused by interpersonal ______.
What is anxiety;relationships.
500
Give a real life example of when a defense mechanism might take place.