Module 55 and 56 Vocab Quiz

a theory of death-related anxiety; explores people's responses to reminders of their impending death.

• terror-management theory

• false consensus effect

the tendency to overestimate the extent to which others share our beliefs and behaviors.

• terror-management theory

• false consensus effect

the most widely used projective test, a set of 10 inkblots; seeks to identify people's inner feelings by analyzing their interpretations of the blots.

• Thematic Apperception Test (TAT)

• Rorschach inkblot test

a projective test in which people express their inner feelings and interests through stories they make up about ambiguous scenes.

• Thematic Apperception Test (TAT)

• Rorschach inkblot test

concept of a shared, inherited reservoir of memory traces from our species' history.

• collective unconscious

• repression

in psychoanalytic theory, the basic defense mechanism that banishes anxiety-arousing thoughts, feelings, and memories.

• collective unconscious

• repression

in psychoanalytic theory, the ego's protective methods of reducing anxiety by unconsciously distorting reality.

• projective test

• defense mechanisms

a personality test, that provides ambiguous stimuli designed to trigger projection of one's inner dynamics.

• projective test

• defense mechanisms

the process by which, according to Freud, children incorporate their parents' values into their developing superegos.

• identification

• fixation

according to Freud, a lingering focus of pleasure-seeking energies at an earlier psychosexual stage, in which conflicts were unresolved.

• identification

• fixation