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Personality

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an individual's characteristic pattern of thinking, feeling, and acting   personality  
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theories that view personality with a focus on the unconscious and the importance of childhood experiences   Psychodynamic theories  
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theory of personality that attributes thoughts and actions to unconscious motives   psychoanalysis  
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a reservoir of mostly unacceptable thoughts, wishes, and memories   unconscious  
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the person says whatever comes to mind no matter how embarrassing   free association  
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pleasure principle, instant gratification   id  
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reality principle, conscious you   ego  
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moral principle, ideal   superego  
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the childhood stages of development   psychosexual stages  
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a boy's sexual desire toward his mother and jealousy towards the father   Oedipus complex  
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the process where children incorporate their parents' values into their developing superegos   identification  
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a lingering focus of pleasure seeking energies at an earlier psychosexual stages, in which conflicts were unresolved   fixation  
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the basic defense mechanism that banishes from consciousness anxiety arousing thoughts feelings and memories   repression  
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the ego's protective methods of reducing anxiety by unconsciously distorting reality   defense mechanisms  
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concept of shared inherited reservoir of memory traces from our species' history   collective unconscious  
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a personality test that provides ambiguous images designed to trigger projection of one's inner dynamics   projective test  
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a projective test in which people express their inner feelings and interests through the stories they make up about ambiguous scenes   thematic apperception test (TAT)  
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a projective test that uses inkblots to seek to identify people's inner feelings by analyzing their interpretations of the blots   Rorschach inkblot test  
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theories that view personality with a focus on the potential for healthy personal growth   humanistic theories  
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pyramid of human needs   hierarchy of needs  
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the motivation to fulfill one's potential   self-actualization  
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the striving for identity, meaning, and purpose beyond the self   self-transcendence  
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a caring, accepting, non judgmental attitude, believed to help people develop self-awareness and self-acceptance   unconditional positive regard  
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all our thoughts and feelings about ourselves   self-concept  
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