Psychology Module 55

an individual’s characteristic pattern of thinking, feeling, and acting.

• Personality
• Free Association
• Psychoanalysis
• Unconscious
• Id

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

• Free Association
• Personality
• Psychoanalysis
• Unconscious
• Id

Freud’s theory of personality that attributes thoughts and actions to unconscious motives and conflicts; the techniques used in treating psychological disorders by seeking to expose and interpret unconscious tensions.

• Psychoanalysis
• Personality
• Free Association
• Unconscious
• Id

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

• Unconscious
• Personality
• Free Association
• Psychoanalysis
• Id

a reservoir of unconscious psychic energy that, according to Freud, strives to satisfy basic sexual and aggressive drives.

• Id
• Personality
• Free Association
• Psychoanalysis
• Unconscious

the largely conscious, “executive” part of personality that, according to Freud, mediates among the demands of the id, superego, and reality.

• Ego
• Personality
• Free Association
• Psychoanalysis
• Unconscious

the part of personality that, according to Freud, represents internalized ideals and provides standards for judgment (the conscience) and for future aspirations.

• Superego
• Personality
• Free Association
• Psychoanalysis
• Unconscious

the childhood stages of development, (oral, anal, phallic, latency, genital) during which, according to Freud, the id’s pleasure-seeking energies focus on distinct erogenous zones.

• Psychosexual Stages
• Identification
• Fixation
• Defense Mechanisms
• Repression

the process by which, according to Freud, children incorporate their parent’s values into their developing superegos.

• Identification
• Psychosexual Stages
• Fixation
• Defense Mechanisms
• Repression

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

• Fixation
• Psychosexual Stages
• Identification
• Defense Mechanisms
• Repression