| A | B |
|---|
| A method of exploring the unconscious in which the person relaxes and says whatever comes to mind, no matter how trivial or embarrassing | Free Association |
| Attributes thoughts and actions to unconscious motives and conflicts | Psychoanalysis |
| A reservoir of mostly unacceptable thoughts, wishes, feelings, and memories | Unconscious |
| Contains a reservoir of unconscious psychic energy that strives to satisfy basic sexual and aggressive drives | Id |
| The largely conscious, "executive" part of personality that mediates among the demands of the id, superego, and reality | Ego |
| The part of personality that represents internalized ideals and provides standards for judgment and for future aspirations | Superego |
| Freud's childhood stages of development | Psychosexual Stages |
| A boy's sexual desires toward his mother and feelings of jealousy and hatred for the father | Oedipus Complex |
| The process by which children incorporate parent's values into developing superegos | Identification |
| A lingering focus of pleasure-seeking energies at an earlier psychosexual stage, in which conflicts were unresolved | Fixation |
| The ego's protective methods of reducing anxiety by unconsciously distorting reality | Defense Mechanisms |
| The basic defense mechanism that banishes anxiety-aroused thoughts, feelings, and memories from consciousness | Repression |
| Theory of death-related anxiety; explores people's emotional and behavioral responses to reminders of impending death. | Terror-Management Theory |
| One of the ultimate psychological needs that arises after basic physical and psychological needs are met and self-esteem is achieved; the motivation to fill one's potential | Self-Actualization |
| An attitude of total acceptance toward another person | Unconditional Positive Regard |
| Thoughts and feelings about oneself in answer to the question, "who am I?" | Self-Concept |
| A characteristic pattern of behavior or a disposition to feel and act | Trait |
| A questionnaire on which people respond to items designed to gauge a wide range of feelings and behaviors | Personality Inventory |
| Most widely used personality test | Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory |
| A test developed by testing a pool of items and then selecting those that discriminate between groups | Empirically Derived Test |
| Views behavior as influenced by the interaction between people's traits and their social context | Social-Cognitive Perspective |
| The interacting influences of behavior, internal cognition, and environment | Reciprocal Determinism |
| The extent to which people perceive control over their environment rather than feeling helpless | Personal Control |
| The perception that chance or outside forces beyond personal control determine fate | External locus of control |
| Perception that you control your own fate | Internal Locus of Control |
| the hopelessness and passive resignation an animal or human learns when unable to avoid repeated aversive events | Learned Helplessness |
| The scientific study of optimal human functioning | Positive Psychology |
| Assumed to be the center of thoughts | Self |
| Overestimating other's noticing and evaluating us | Spotlight Effect |
| One's feelings of high or low self-worth | Self-Esteem |
| A readiness to perceive oneself favorably | Self-Serving Bias |
