Summer Psychology Chapter 11

a person's characteristics patterns of behaving, thinking, and feeling

• defense mechanism

• super ego

• ego

• personality

the thoughts, feelings, sensations, or memories of which a person is aware at any given moment

• unconscious

• preconscious

• conscious

• fixation

For Freud, the primary motivating force of human behavior, containing repressed memories as well as instincts, wishes, and desires that have never been conscious

• conscious

• unconscious

• preconscious

• fixation

the unconscious system of the personality, which contains the life and death instincts and operates on the pleasure principle, source of the libido

• ego

• id

• personality

• superego

In Freud's theory, the logical, rational, largely conscious system of personality, which operates according to the reality principle

• ego

• id

• personality

• superego

the moral system of the personality, which consists of the conscience and the ego ideal

• ego

• id

• personality

• superego

Which of the following is not a level of consciousness according to Freud?

• postconscious

• preconscious

• unconscious

• conscious

a means used by the ego to defend against anxiety and to maintain self-esteem

• fixation

• consciousness

• defense mechanism

• self-actualization

involuntarily removing an unpleasant memory, thought, or perception from consciousness or barring disturbing sexual and aggressive impulses from consciousness

• denial

• repression

• sublimation

• projection

attributing one's own traits, thoughts, behavior, or impulses to another

• rationalization

• repression

• regression

• projection