Advanced Psychology: Personality

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

Austrian neurologist known for his work on the unconscious mind. Father of psychoanalysis.

Freud's theory of personality that attributes thoughts and actions to unconscious motives and conflicts.

Technique in which clients express themselves without censorship of any sort

Operates on the pleasure principle part of the personality that demands immediate gratification.

Operates on the rational, planful, mediating part of the personality.

Operates judgemental, moral part of the personality.

Unconscious mental processes that protect individuals from strong or stressful emotions and situations; aimed at reducing or redirecting anxiety

Disguising one's own threatening impulses by attributing them to others

A reversion to immature patterns of behavior.

Shifts sexual or aggressive impulses toward a more acceptable or less threatening object or person.

Self-justifying explanations in place of the real, more threatening, unconscious reasons for one's actions.

Refusing to believe or even perceive painful realities

Projective test requiring examinees to tell a story in response to ambiguous pictures

Most widely used projective test that seeks to identify people's inner feelings by analyzing their interpretations of blots