Vocab 1
An individuals’ characteristic pattern of thinking, feeling and acting
Personality
The basic mechanism that banishes anxiety arousing impulse, underlies all other defense mechanisms
Repression
Annapolis is the capital city of what state?
Maryland
A personality test that provides ambiguous stimuli designed to trigger projection of one’s inner dynamics
Projective Test
A characteristic pattern of behavior or a disposition to feel and act
Trait
In psychoanalysis, method of exploring the unconscious in which the person relaxes and says whatever comes to mind
Free Association
Transferring of unacceptable impulses into socially valued motives
Sublimation
Which of the following is the capital city of Thailand? (Beijing, Bangkok, Hebei, Taipei)
Bangkok
Most widely used projective test, a set of 10 inkblots that seek to identify people’s inner feelings by analyzing their interpretations
Rorschach Inblot test
The scientific study of optimal human functioning; aims to discover and promote strengths and virtues
Positive Psychology
Freud’s theory of personality that attributes thoughts and actions to unconscious motives and conflicts
Psychoanalysis
Disguising one’s own threatening impulses by attributing to others
Projection
What color are Panda Bears when they are born?
Pink
According to maslow, one of the ultimate psychological needs that arises after basic physical and psychological needs are met
Self-Actualization
Unconscious psychic energy that strives for immediate gratification, operates on the pleasure principle (devil)
According to Sigmund Freud, a boys sexual desire toward his mother and feeling of jealousy and hatred for the father
Oedipus Complex
Offering self-justifying explanations i place of the real, more threatening unconscious reasons for one's actions
Rationalization
Which of the following is the new men's basketball coach at the University of Iowa? (McCaffery, Devries, McCollum, Jacobson)
McCollum
Overestimating others noticing and evaluating our appearance, performance, and blunders
Spotlight Effect
The most famous personality test and widely used?
Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI)
Excessive self-love and self-absorption
Narcissism
Shifting sexual or aggressive impulses toward a more acceptable or less threatening object of person
Displacement
How many rooms are in the "Forbidden City" in China?
Giving priority to the goals of one’s group and defining one’s identity accordingly
Collectivist
In Freud's Psychosexual stages of development, what stage focuses on pleasure centers on the genitals and would include incestuous feelings?
Phallic Stage