Quiz for Personality

According to Freud, a boy's sexual desires towards his mother and feelings of jealousy and hatred for the rival father.

According to Freud, a lingering focus of pleasure-seeking energies at an earlier psychosexual stage, in which conflicts were unresolved.

a projective test in which people express their inner feelings and interests through the stories they make up about ambiguous scenes.

A characteristic pattern of behavior or a disposition to a feel and act, as assessed by self-report inventories and peer reports.

A questionaire (often with true-false or agree-disagree items) on which people respond to items designated to gauge a wide range of feelings and behaviors; used to assess selected personality traits.

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.

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.

Psychoanalytic defense mechanism by which the ego unconsciously switches unacceptable impulses into their opposites. Thus, people may express feelings that are the opposite of their anxiety-arousing unvonscious feelings.

The part of persoanlity that according to Freud, represents internalized ideals and provides standards for judgment (the conscious) and for future aspirations.

Psychoanalytic defense mechanism in which an individual faced with anxiety retreats to a more infantile psychosexual stage, where some psychic energy emains fixated.

a projective test in which people express their inner feelings and interests through the stories they make up about ambiguous scenes.

According to Maslow, the ultimate psychological need that arises after basic physical and psychological needs are met and self-esteem is achieved; the motivation to fulfill one's potential.

Psychoanalytic defense mechanism by which people disguise their own threatening impulses by attributing them to others.

Overestimating others' noticin and evaluating our appearance, performance, and blunders (as if we presume a spotlight shines on us)

Defense mechanism that offers self-justifying explanations in place of the real, more threatening, unconscious reasons for one's actions.

The process by which, according to Freud, children incorporate their parents' values into their developing superegos.

Overestimating others' noticin and evaluating our appearance, performance, and blunders (as if we presume a spotlight shines on us)

According to Freud, a boy's sexual desires towards his mother and feelings of jealousy and hatred for the rival father.

The process by which, according to Freud, children incorporate their parents' values into their developing superegos.

Defense mechanism that offers self-justifying explanations in place of the real, more threatening, unconscious reasons for one's actions.

The process by which, according to Freud, children incorporate their parents' values into their developing superegos.

Overestimating others' noticin and evaluating our appearance, performance, and blunders (as if we presume a spotlight shines on us)

In psychoanalytic theory, the basic defense mechanism that banishes anxiety-arousing thoughts, feelings, and memories from consciousness.

In psychoanalytic theory, the ego's protective methods of reducing anxiety by unconsciously distorting reality.

The persception that chance or outside forces beyond one's personal control determine one's fate

An individual's characteristic pattern of thinking, feeling and acting.

Carl Jung's concept of a shared, inherited reservoir of memory traces from our species' history.

Views behavior as influenced by the interaction between persons (and their thinking) and their social context.

a projective test in which people express their inner feelings and interests through the stories they make up about ambiguous scenes.

The part of persoanlity that according to Freud, represents internalized ideals and provides standards for judgment (the conscious) and for future aspirations.

In psychoanalysis, a method of exploring the unconscious in which the person relaxes and says whatever comes to mind, no matter how trivial or embarassing

A personality test, such as the Rorschach or TAT, that provides ambiguous stimuli designed to trigger projection of one's inner dynamics.

The process by which, according to Freud, children incorporate their parents' values into their developing superegos.

The hopelessness and passive resignation an animal or human learns when unable to avoid repeated aversive events.

Views behavior as influenced by the interaction between persons (and their thinking) and their social context.

According to Freud, a boy's sexual desires towards his mother and feelings of jealousy and hatred for the rival father.

Our sense of controlling our environment rather than feeling helpless.

According to Rogers, an attitude of total acceptance toward another person

The interacting influences between personality and environmental factors.

Protects a person from real life events