| Term | Definition |
| character | value judgment of a person's moral and ethical behavior |
| temperament | the enduring characteristics with which each person is born |
| unconscious mind | level of the mid in which thought, feeling memories and other information are kept that are not easily or voluntarily brought into consciousness |
| ID | part of the personality present at birth and completely unconscious |
| Ego | part of the personality that develops out of a need to deal with reality, mostly conscious, rational, and logical |
| superego | part of the personality that acts as a moral center |
| fully functioning person | a person who is in touch with and trusting of the deepest, innermost urges and feelings |
| id self | one perception of who one should be or would like to be |
| interview | method of personality assessment in which the professional asks questions of the clients and allow the client to answer, either in a structured or unstructured fashion |
| neo-freudians | follower of Freud who developed their own, competing psycho dynamic theories |
| defense mechanisms | unconscious distortions of person perception of reality that reduce stress and anxiety |
| projective test | personality ASSESSMENT that person visual stimuli to the client ans ask the client to respond with whatever come to mind |
| real self | one perception of actual characteristics,traits, and abilities |
| self-actualizing tendency | the striving to fulfill ones innate capacities and capabilities |
| self-concept | the image of oneself that develop from interactions with important, significant people in one life |
| self-efficacy | individual expectancy of how effective his or her efforts to accomplish a goal will be in any particular circumstance |
| social cognitive learning theorists | learning theory that includes cognitive processes such as anticipating, judging, memory and imitation of models |
| locus of control | the tendency for people to assume that they either have control or do not have control over event and consequences in their lives. |
| ideal self | one perception of who one should be or would like to be |
| conditional positive regard | positive regard that is given only when the person is doing what the providers of postie regard wish |
| unconditional positive regard | positive regard that is given without conditions or strings attached |
| project test | |
