Personality
An individuals characteristic pattern of thinking
Dream analysis
Interpreting manifest and laten dreams
Psychoanalysis
Freud's theory of personality that attributes thoughts and actions to unconscious motives and conflicts; the techniques used in treating psychological disorders by seeking to expose and interpret unconscious tensions
Unconscious
that part of the mind wherein psychic activity takes place of which the person is unaware
ID
Unconscious mind, contains a reservoir of unconscious psychic energy that, according to Freud, strives to satisfy basic sexual and aggressive drives. The id operates on the PLEASURE PRINCIPLE, demanding immediate gratification
Ego
(psychoanalysis) the conscious mind, the largely conscious, "executive" part of personality that, according to Freud, mediates among the demands of the id, superego, and reality. The ego operates on the reality principle, satisfying the id's desires in ways that will realistically bring pleasure rather than pain
Superego
the part of the personality in Freud's theory that is responsible for making moral choices
Freuds Psychosexual Stages
Oral, Anal, Phallic, Latency, Genital
Defense mechanisms
in psychoanalytic theory, the ego's protective methods of reducing anxiety by unconsciously distorting reality
Repression
defense mechanism in which painful memories are excluded from consciousness
Regression
psychoanalytic defense mechanism in which an individual faced with anxiety retreats to a more infantile psychosexual stage (thumb sucking)
Reaction formation
People express feelings that are the opposite of thier anxiety-arousing unconscious feelings
Projection
People disguise thier own threatening impulses by attributing them to others
Rationalization
defense mechanism that offers self-justifying explanations in place of the real, more threatening, unconscious reasons for one's actions
Displacement
psychoanalytic defense mechanism that shifts sexual or aggressive impulses toward a more acceptable or less threatening object or person, as when redirecting anger toward a safer outlet
Projective test
a personality test, such as the Rorschach or TAT, that provides ambiguous stimuli designed to trigger projection of one's inner dynamics
Thematic Appreaciation Test (TAT)
A projective test in which people express thier inner feelings and interest through the stories they make up about ambigous scenes. SHOW AMBIGOUS PICTURES, to make stories
Rorschach inkblot test
the most widely used projective test, a set of 10 inkblots, designed by Hermann Rorschach; seeks to identify people's inner feelings by analyzing their interpretations of the blots
Criticism of Projective tests
Lacks both reliabilty and validity