GEN PSYCH EXAM 5 QUESTIONS AND
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Personality - ANS an individual's characteristic pattern of thinking, feeling, and acting
psychodynamics theory - ANS theories that view personality with a focus on the unconscious
and the importance of childhood experiences
psychoanalysis (freud) - ANS Freud's theory of personality that attributes thoughts and
actions to unconscious motives and conflicts
unconscious (freud) - ANS a reservoir of mostly unacceptable thoughts, wishes, feelings, and
memories
Free Association (Freud) - ANS 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
Ids - ANS a reservoir of unconscious psychic energy that, according to Freud, strives to satisfy
basic sexual and aggressive drives
Ego - ANS The partly conscious, "executive" part of personality that, according to Freud,
mediates among the demands of the id, the superego, and reality
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, Superego - ANS the part of personality that, according to Freud, represents internalized
ideals and provides standards for judgment (the conscience) and for future aspirations
psychosexual stages - ANS 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
Oedipus complex - ANS boys sexual desires toward his mother and feelings of jealous and
hatred for the rival father
Identification process - ANS the process by which children incorporate their parents' values
into their developing superegos
fixate - ANS (1) the inability to see a problem from a new perspective, by employing a
different mental set. (2) according to Freud, a lingering focus of pleasure-seeking energies at an
earlier psychosexual stage, in which conflicts were unresolved.
defense mechanisms - ANS the ego's protective methods of reducing anxiety by
unconsciously distorting reality
repression - ANS the basic defense mechanism that banishes from consciousness anxiety-
arousing thoughts, feelings, and memories
collective unconscious - ANS Carl Jung's concept of a shared, inherited reservoir of memory
traces from our species' history
Thematic Apperception Test (TAT) - ANS a projective test in which people express their inner
feelings and interests through the stories they make up about ambiguous scenes
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ANSWERS 100% PASS
Personality - ANS an individual's characteristic pattern of thinking, feeling, and acting
psychodynamics theory - ANS theories that view personality with a focus on the unconscious
and the importance of childhood experiences
psychoanalysis (freud) - ANS Freud's theory of personality that attributes thoughts and
actions to unconscious motives and conflicts
unconscious (freud) - ANS a reservoir of mostly unacceptable thoughts, wishes, feelings, and
memories
Free Association (Freud) - ANS 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
Ids - ANS a reservoir of unconscious psychic energy that, according to Freud, strives to satisfy
basic sexual and aggressive drives
Ego - ANS The partly conscious, "executive" part of personality that, according to Freud,
mediates among the demands of the id, the superego, and reality
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, Superego - ANS the part of personality that, according to Freud, represents internalized
ideals and provides standards for judgment (the conscience) and for future aspirations
psychosexual stages - ANS 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
Oedipus complex - ANS boys sexual desires toward his mother and feelings of jealous and
hatred for the rival father
Identification process - ANS the process by which children incorporate their parents' values
into their developing superegos
fixate - ANS (1) the inability to see a problem from a new perspective, by employing a
different mental set. (2) according to Freud, a lingering focus of pleasure-seeking energies at an
earlier psychosexual stage, in which conflicts were unresolved.
defense mechanisms - ANS the ego's protective methods of reducing anxiety by
unconsciously distorting reality
repression - ANS the basic defense mechanism that banishes from consciousness anxiety-
arousing thoughts, feelings, and memories
collective unconscious - ANS Carl Jung's concept of a shared, inherited reservoir of memory
traces from our species' history
Thematic Apperception Test (TAT) - ANS a projective test in which people express their inner
feelings and interests through the stories they make up about ambiguous scenes
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