Psychology: Key Concepts of Personality

The thoughts, feelings, sensations, or memories of which a person is aware at any given moment.

<p>The thoughts, feelings, and memories that a person is not consciously aware of but can be easily brought to consciousness.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The primary motivating force of human behavior, containing repressed memories, instincts, wishes, and desires.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The unconscious system of personality that contains life and death instincts and operates on the pleasure principle.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The logical, rational, largely conscious system of personality that operates according to the reality principle.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The moral system of the personality, consisting of the conscience and the ego ideal.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A means used by the ego to defend against anxiety and maintain self-esteem.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A defense mechanism that involves removing painful or threatening memories from consciousness.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A series of stages through which the sexual instinct develops, defined by an erogenous zone.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Arrested development at a psychosexual stage due to excessive gratification or frustration.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A conflict in which a child is sexually attracted to the opposite-sex parent and feels hostility toward the same-sex parent.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The layer of the unconscious that contains accessible thoughts and repressed memories.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>An inherited tendency to respond to universal human situations in particular ways.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Developing to one's fullest potential.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Conditions on which the positive regard of others rests.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Unqualified caring and nonjudgmental acceptance of another.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A personal quality or characteristic that is stable across situations, used to describe or explain personality.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A trait theory that explains personality using five broad dimensions.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A measure of a culture's emphasis on individual achievement versus social relationships.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The view that personality is a collection of learned behaviors acquired through social interactions.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The concept of a mutual influential relationship among behavior, cognitive factors, and environment.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The perception a person has of his or her ability to perform competently.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A cognitive factor that explains how people account for what happens in their lives.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The most inaccessible layer of the unconscious containing universal experiences of humankind.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A paper-and-pencil test measuring personality dimensions through questions about thoughts, feelings, and behaviors.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The most extensively researched and widely used personality test for diagnosing psychiatric problems.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A highly regarded personality test developed for normal individuals aged 13 and older.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A personality inventory useful for measuring normal individual differences based on Jung's theory.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A personality test where individuals project their thoughts and feelings onto ambiguous stimuli.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A projective test consisting of inkblots that the test taker describes.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A projective test consisting of ambiguous drawings that the test taker describes.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A subjective scoring method where accuracy depends on the evaluator's ability.</p> Signup and view all the answers