PSYCHOLOGY EXAM 4(1)

define personality

• A person’s typical thoughts, emotional responses, and behaviors that are relatively stable over time and across circumstances.

• how the person acts

• a person's perspective on things

• How popped engaged

where are they on the iceberg ?

• ego= conscious

• id= unconscious

• superego= preconscious

• ego= unconscious

how are id, ego, and superego related

• id ignores the rule

• superego indicates that we cannot get anything we want at nay given time

• ego manages id and superego

define Ego

• Produces pride or guilt depending on how well ourbehavior matches or does not match our mora

• Controlled by the pleasure principl

• Need to satisfy id that will not lead to negative consequences

• Controlled by reality principle

how to do upward and downward comparisons affect self-esteem

• upward comparisons can lead to negative emotions

• our self-esteem cam decrees due to this

• Downward comparisons can lead to positive emotions and an increase in self-esteem

• none the above

Conscious

• having knowledge of something; aware.

• associated with a part of the mind below the level of immediate conscious awareness, from which memories and emotions that have not been repressed can be recalled.

• the part of the mind which is inaccessible to the conscious mind but which affects behavior and emotions.

Self-esteem

• The immediateexperience of the self in the here and no

• your evaluation of you, how you value or feelabout yourself

• everything youthink, believe, and feel aboutyourself

define self-concept

• everything you think, believe, and feel about yourself

• everything that you do not think, believe, and feel about yourself

• The immediateexperience of the self in the here and no

working self-concept

• quickly consider ourselves ashardworking when we are at work or in clas

• The immediate experience of the self in the here and now

• your evaluation of you, how you value or feelabout yoursel

examples of self-concept

• memories

• characteristics

• identities

• dreams