Motivation, Emotion, Personality, and Social Psych 2025

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Which branch of personality theory focuses on childhood sexuality and unconscious motivations?

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Psychoanalytic Theory

Front

Which branch of personality theory focuses on our inner capacities for growth and self-fulfillment?

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Humanistic Theory

Front

Which branch of personality theory focuses on characteristic patterns of behavior?

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Trait Theory

Front

Which branch of personality theory focuses on the interaction between people's traits (including thinking) and their social context?

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Social-Cognitive Theories

Front

Which of the following terms is NOT one that Sigmund Freud used?
Ego,
Free Association,
Repression,
Collective Unconscious

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Collective Unconscious

Front

What part of the mind according to Freud is a reservoir of unconscious psychic energy that strives to satisfy basic sexual and aggressive drives and operates on the pleasure principle?

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Id

Front

What part of the mind according to Freud is the largely conscious, "executive" part of personality that mediates among the demands of the other parts of the mind and operates on the reality principle?

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Ego

Front

What part of the mind according to Freud represents internalized ideals and provides standards for judgement and future aspirations?

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Superego

Front

What term refers to a lingering focus of pleasure-seeking energies at an earlier psychosexual stage in which conflicts were unresolved?

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Fixation

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What term refers to the ego's protective methods of reducing anxiety by unconsciously distorting reality?

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Defense Mechanisms