Personality Vocabulary

Freud's theory of personality that attributes thoughts & actions to unconscious motives & conflicts.

• unconscious

• free association

• psychoanalysis

• personality

An individual's characteristic pattern of thinking, feeling, & acting.

• self-concept

• personality

• schema

• unconscious

Theories that view personality with a focus on the unconscious & the importance of childhood experiences.

• psychoanalysis

• personality

• psychodynamic theories

According to Freud, a reservoir of mostly unacceptable thoughts, wishes, feelings, & memories. According to contemporary psychologists information processing of which we are unaware.

• unconscious

• concsious

• free association

• Super ego

A method of exploring the unconscious in which the person relaxes and says whatever comes to mind, no matter how trivial or embarrassing.

• transference

• psychodynamic

• free association

A reservoir of unconscious psychic energy that ,according to Freud, strives to satisfy basic sexual & aggressive drives. Operates on the pleasure principle.

• Superego

• Id

• Ego

The "executive" part of personality that, according to Freud, mediates among the demands of the other two and operates on the reality principle.

• Superego

• Id

• Ego

The Part of personality that, according to Freud, represents internalized ideals & provides standards for judgment & for future aspirations.

• Superego

• Id

• Ego

The childhood stages of development during which , according to Freud, the is' pleasure seeking energies focus on erogenous zones.

• Psychosocial stages

• psychosexual stages

• Cognitive Stages

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

• fixation

• repression

• identification

• defense mechanism