Chapter 10

Pattern of enduring, distinctive thoughts, emotions, and behaviors that characterize how an individual adapts.

Emphasizes that personality is primarily unconscious.. These unconscious forces are too frightening to be part of our conscious awareness.

Freud thought human sexual drive was the main determinant of personality development, and that psychological disorders, dreams, and human behavior represent the conflict between the unconscious sexual drive and demands of civilized human society.

Freud's term for the human being's basic, inborn drives.

Freud's term for a balancing force between the id and the demands of society.

Freud's term for the cultural values and norms internalized by an individual.

Tactics the ego uses to reduce anxiety by unconsciously distorting reality.

The most powerful and pervasive defense mechanism--pushes threatening impulses our of awareness.

Human capacity for self-fulfillment and the importance of consciousness, self-awareness, and the capacity to make choices.

Unconditional positive regard; being accepted, valued, and treated positively leads to positive self-concept.\

Personality consists of broad, enduring dispositions that tend to lead to characteristic responses.

Five broad traits: openness to experience, conscientiousness, extraversion, agreeableness, and neuroticism.

Sociable or retiring, fun-loving or somber, affectionate or reserved.

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

Attitudes are formed through observation of behavior, personal factors, and environment