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Chapter 13 - Psychology

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personality
a person's characteristic patterns of behaving, thinking, and feeling
psychoanalysis
Freud's term for his theory of personality and his therapy for treating psychological disorders
conscious
the thoughts, feelings, sensations, or memories of which a person is aware at any given moment
preconscious
the thoughts feelings, and memories that a person is not consciously aware of at the moment but that may be easily brought to consciousness
unconscious
for Freud, the primary motivating force of human behavior, containing repressed memories as well as instincts, wishes, and desires that have never been conscious
id
the unconscious system of the personality, which contains the life and death instincts and operates on the pleasure principle; source of the libido
ego
in Freud's theory, the logical, rational, largely conscious system of personality, which operates according to the reality principle
superego
the moral system of the personality, which consists of the conscience and the ego ideal
defense mechanism
a means used by the ego to defend against anxiety and to maintain self-esteem
repression
a defense mechanism in which one involuntarily removes painful or threatening memories, thoughts, or perceptions from consciousness or prevents unconscious sexual and aggressive impulses from breaking into conciousness
psychosexual stages
a series of stages through which the sexual instinct develops; each stage is defined by an erogenous zone around which conflict arises
fixation
arrested development at psychosexual stage occurring because of excessive gratification or frustration at that stage
oedipus complex
occurring in the phallic stage, a conflict in which the child is sexually attracted to the opposite-sex parent and feels hostility toward the same parents
personal unconscious
in Jung's theory, the layer of the unconscious that contains all of the thoughts, perceptions, and experiences accessible to the conscious, as well as repressed memories, wishes, and impulses
archetype
existing in the collective unconscious, an inherited tendency to respond to universal human situations in particular ways
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