Neuro Personality Unit

relatively permanent characteristic of our personality

The part of personality that represents internalized ideals and provides standards for judgment (the conscience)

interpretation of dreams: what was NOT remembered/unconscious

The belief that you can do a particular task greatly increases the chances that you actually can do it

Reduces anxiety by taking up the opposite feeling, impulse, or behavior

Animal side of our personality, part of the unconscious mind, repressed ideas, weaknesses, desires, instincts, etc

Functions to protect the ego from things with which the individual cannot cope

Involves taking out our frustrations, feelings, and impulses on people or objects that are less threatening

Proposes that all behavior is caused by outside environmental forces (free will is an illusion)

Focus on how we and our environment interact (instead of our environment controlling us)

Emphasize the importance of free will and individual experience in the development of personality

the ego protects itself with _____, tactics that reduce or redirect anxiety by distorting reality

Freud's techniques used in treating psychological disorders by seeking to expose and interpret unconscious tensions

method of exploring the unconscious in which the person relaxes and says whatever comes to mind

The largely conscious, “executive” part of personality that, mediates among the demands of the id, superego, and reality

general characteristics that form the basic foundations of personality

what's at the top of Maslow's hierarchy of needs?

according to Freud, a reservoir of mostly unacceptable thoughts, wishes, feelings, and memories

traits that dominate an individual’s whole life

The socially acceptable mask or front the person presents to the world, highly conscious creation

this theory has great emphasis on the role of unconscious psychological conflicts in shaping behavior and personality

When confronted by stressful events, people sometimes abandon coping strategies and revert to old patterns of behavior

Involves taking our own unacceptable qualities or feelings and ascribing them to other people

interpretation of dreams: what was remembered

Acts to keep information out of conscious awareness

The scientific study of the whole person

explaining an unacceptable behavior or feeling in a rational or logical manner, avoiding the true reasons

Personality is the sum of behaviors learned as responses to rewards or through negative reinforcement

Part of the human personality that is made up of all our inborn biological urges that seeks out immediate gratification

traits that often appear only in certain situations or under specific circumstances

the difference between our real self, and ideal self

projective test which involves creating stories about ambiguous images