FREE PSYCHOLOGY AND STUDY GAMES ABOUT CHAPTER

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FREE PSYCHOLOGY AND STUDY GAMES ABOUT CHAPTER

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Question 1: The 3 Structures of Personality

Answer:

Id, Ego, and Superego

Question 2: Name the 8 Major Defense Mechanisms in Psychodynamic Theory

Answer:

Repression, Denial, Reaction Formation, Rationalization, Projection, Sublimation, Regression, and Displacement

Question 3: Denial

Answer:

a defense mechanism involving the failure to recognize a threatening impulse or urge

Question 4: Anal-Retentive Personality

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a personality type characterized by messiness, lack of self-discipline, and carelessness

Question 5: Unconscious

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To Freud, the part of the mind that lies outside the range of ordinary awareness and that holds troubling or unacceptable urges, impulses, memories and ideas.

Question 6: The 5 Stages of Personality Development

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Oral (Birth to 12 to 18 months), Anal (18 months to 3 years), Phallic (3 to 6 years), Latency (6 years to puberty), Genital (puberty to adulthood)

Question 7: Ego

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Freud's term for the psychic structure that attempts to balance the instinctual demands of the id with social realities and expectations

Question 8: Preconscious

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To Freud, the part of the mind whose contents can be brought into awareness through focused attention

Question 9: Repression

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a type of defense mechanism involving motivated forgetting of anxiety-evoking material

Question 10: Regression

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a defense mechanism in which an individual, usually under high levels of stress, reverts to a behavior characteristic of an earlier stage of development

Question 11: Sigmund Freud (1856-1939)

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Architect of the first major theory of personality, called psychoanalytic theory

Question 12: Pleasure Principle

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In Freudian theory, a governing principle of the id that is based on demand for instant gratification without regard to social rules or customs

Question 13: Projection

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a defense mechanism involving the projection of one's own unacceptable impulses, wishes or urges onto another person

Question 14: Psychoanalytic Theory

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Freud's theory of personality that holds that personality and behavior are shaped by unconscious forces and conflicts

Question 15: 3 Levels of Consciousness

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The Conscious, the Preconscious, and the Unconscious

Question 16: Reality Principle

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In Freudian theory, a governing principle of the ego that takes into account what is practical and acceptable in satisfying basic needs

Question 17: Superego

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Freud's term for the psychic structure that corresponds to an internal moral guardian or conscience

Question 18: Personality

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The relatively stable constellation of psychological characteristics and behavioral patterns that account for our individuality and consistency over time

Question 19: Conscious

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To Freud, the part of the mind corresponding to the state of present awareness.

Question 20: Id

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Freud's term for the psychic structure existing in the unconscious that contains our baser animal drives and instinctual impulses

Question 21: Reaction Formation

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a defense mechanism involving behavior that stands in opposition to one's true motives and desires so as to prevent conscious awareness of them

Question 22: Genital Stage

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the fifth and final stage of psychosexual development, which begins around puberty and corresponds to the development of mature sexuality and emphasis on procreation

Question 23: Oral Stage

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the first stage of psychosexual development, during which the infant seeks sexual gratification through oral stimulation (sucking, mouthing, and biting)

Question 24: Rationalization

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a defense mechanism involving the use of self-justification to explain away unacceptable behavior, impulses, or ideas

Question 25: Phallic Stage

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the third stage of psychosexual development, marked by erotic attention on the phallic region (penis in boys, clitoris in girls) and the development of the Oedipus Complex

Question 26: Sublimation

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a defense mechanism involving the channeling of unacceptable impulses into socially sanctioned behaviors or interests

Question 27: Displacement

Answer:

a defense mechanism in which an unacceptable sexual or aggressive impulse is transferred to an object or person that is safer or less threatening than the original object of the impulse