Ap psychology vocab unit 10 Personality

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

• Personality

• Free association

• Identification

• Repression

The theories that view personality with a focus on the unconscious and the importance of childhood experiences.

• Psychodynamic theories

• Defense mechanisms

• Project test

• Psychoanalysis

Freud's theory of personality and therapeutic technique that attributes thoughts and actions to unconscious motives and conflicts.

• Unconscious

• Psychosexual stages

• Psychoanalysis

• Collective unconscious

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

• Fixation

• Personality

• Collective unconscious

• Unconscious

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

• ID

• Free association

• Ego

• Identification

A reservoir of unconscious psychic energy that, according to Freud, strives to satisfy basic sexual and aggressive drives. The ___ operates on the pleasure principle, demanding immediate gratification.

• ID

• Ego

• Superego

• Unconscious

The largely conscious, "executive" part of the personality that, according to Freud, mediates among the demands of the id, superego, and reality. The ___ operates on the reality principle, satisfying the id's desires in ways that will realistically bring pleasure rather than pain.

• ID

• Ego

• Superego

• Defense mechanisms

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

• ID

• Ego

• Superego

• Oedipus complex

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.

• Psychodynamic theories

• Oedipus complex

• Psychosexual stages

• Psychoanalysis

According to Freud, a boy's sexual desires toward his mother and feelings of jealousy and hatred for the rival father.

• Fixation

• Psychosexual stages

• Oedipus complex

• Free association