Personality Vocabulary

an individual's characteristic pattern of thinking, feeling, and acting

• personality
• Rorschach inkblot
• fixation
• projective

unconscious motives and conflicts; techniques for treating psychological disorders

• unconscious
• psychoanalysis
• id
• psychodynamic

banishes from consciousness thoughts, feelings, and memories that arouse anxiety

• ego
• personality
• repression
• Rorschach inkblot

boy's sexual desires toward his mother, feelings of jealousy and hatred for rival father

• repression
• ego
• personality
• Oedipus Complex

id's pleasure-seeking energies focus on distinct erogenous zones

• psychosexual
• defense mechanisms
• Oedipus complex
• repression

children incorporate their parents' values into their developing superegos

• psychosexual
• identification
• defense mechanisms
• Oedipus Complex

ego's protective methods of reducing anxiety by unconsciously distorting reality

• Oedipus complex
• repression
• defense mechanisms
• ego

relaxes and says whatever comes to mind, no matter how unimportant or embarrassing

• psychoanalysis
• unconscious
• id
• free association

focus on the unconscious and the importance of childhood experiences

• psychodynamic
• identification
• psychosexual
• defense mechanisms

"executive" part of the personality that balances demands of id, superego, and reality

• personality
• ego
• Rorschach inkblot
• fixation