| A | B |
| A person's internally based characteristic ways of acting and thinking | Personality |
| Freud's term for what we are presently aware of | Conscious mind |
| Freud's term for what is stored in one's memory that one is not presently aware of but can access | Preconscious mind |
| Freud's term for the part of our mind that we cannot become aware of | Unconscious mind |
| The part of the personality that a person is born with, where the biological instinctual drives reside, and that is located totally in the unconscious mind | ID |
| The principle of seeking immediate gratification for instinctual drives without concern for the consequences | Pleasure principle |
| The part of the personality that starts developing in the first year or so of life in order to find realistic outlets for the id's instinctual drives. | ego |
| The principal of finding gratification for instinctual drives within the constraints of reality (norms of society) | Reality Principle |
| The part of the personality that represents one's conscience and idealized standards of behavior | superego |
| A process used by the ego to distort reality and protect a person from anxiety | Defense mechanisms |
| The area of the body where the id's pleasure seeking energies are focused during a particular stage of psychosexual development | erogenous zone |
| Some of the id's pleasure seeking energies remaining stuck in a psychosexual stage due to excessive or insufficient gratification of instinctual needs | fixation |
| The first stage in freud's theory (from birth to 18 months) in which the erogenous zones are the mouth, lips, and tongue, and the child derives pleasure from oral activities such as sucking, biting, and chewing | Oral stage or psychosexual development |
| The second stage in Freud's theory (from 18 months to 3 years), in which the erogenous zone is the anus, and the child derives pleasure from stimulation of the anal region through having and withhoulding bowel ments | Anastage of psychosexual development |
| The third stage in Freud's theory (from 3 to 6 years), in which the erogenous zone is located at the genitals, and the child derives pleasure from genital stimulation | Phallic stage |
| A phallic stage conflict for a boy in which the boy becomes sexually atracted to his mother and fears his father will find out and castrate him | Oedipus conflict |
| The process by which children adopt the characteristics of the same-sex parent and learn their gender role and sense of morality | identification |
| The fourth stage in Freud's theory (from 6 years old to puberty), in which there is no erogenous zone, sexual feelings are repressed, and the focus is on cognitive and social development | latency stage |
| The fifth stage in Freud's theory (from puberty through adulthood), in which the erogenous zone is at the genitals, and the child develops sexual relationships, moving toward intimate adult relationships. | Genital stage |
| The motivational component in Maslow's theory of personality, in which our innate needs that motivate our behavior are hierarchically arranged in a pyramid shape. | Hierarchy of needs |
| The fullest realization of a person's potential. | Self-actualizaiton |
| The behaviors and attitudes for which other people, starting with our parents, will give us positive regard. | Conditions of worth |
| Unconditional acceptance and approval of a person by others | Unconditional positive regard |
| The set of cognitive processes by which a person observes, evaluates, and regulates her behavior | Self-system |
| A judgement of one's effectiveness in dealing with particular situations | Self-efficacy |
| The perception that chance of external forces beyond one's personal control determines one's fate | external locus of control |
| The perception that we control our own individual fate | Internal locus of control |
| A sense of hopelessness in which a person thinks that he is unable to prevent aversive events | Learned helplessness |
| Te process by which we explain our own behavior and that of others | attribution |
| The tendency to make attributions so that one can perceive oneself favorably | self-serving biasa |
| The relatively stable internally based characteristics that describe a person | traits |
| A objective personality test that uses a series of questions or statements for which the test taker must indicate whether they apply to her or not. | Personality inventory |
| A personality test that uses a series of ambiguous stimuli to which the test taker must respond about her perception of the stimuli | Projective test |
| Who was the father of psycho annalist | Sigmund Freud |