Sigmund Freud proposed that childhood sexuality and unconscious motivations influence personality

Focuses on our inner capacities for growth and selffulfillment (led by Maslow and Rogers).

a person's characteristic pattern of thinking, feeling and acting

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

The unconscious psychic energy that, according to Freud, strives to satisfy sexual and aggressive drives.

The conscious "executive" part of personality that, according to Freud, mediates among the demands of the id, superego and reality.

Satisfying the id's desires in ways that brings long-term pleasure It is what ego operates on.

According to Freud, a boy's sexual desires for mom and jealousy for father.

(0-18 months) Pleasure centers on the mouth.

(18-36 months) Pleasure focuses on bowel and bladder elimination;oping with demands for control.

(6-puberty) Dormant sexual feelings.

(puberty on) Maturation of sexual interests. Freud thought it was where sexuality re-emerges meaning earlier desires are in the unconscious, superego takes parental values and children begin to agree with same-sex parents.

According to Freud, process where children incorporate their parents' values into their developing superegos. He also believed that it forms gender identity when it is done with the same sex parent.

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

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

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.

Psychoanalytic defense mechanism by which people refuse to believe or even to perceive painful realities.

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

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

Introduced by Henry Murray, in which people express their inner feelings and interests through the stories they create from ambiguous scenes.

Introduced by Hermann Rorschach, seeks to identify people's inner feelings by analyzing their interpretations of the blots.

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

A test (such as MMPI) developed by testing a pool of items and then selecting those that discriminate between groups.

Views behavior as influenced by the interaction between people's traits and their social context.

The interacting influences of behavior, internal cognition, and environment.

The perception that chance or outside forces beyond your personal control determine your fate.

The perception that you control your own fate.

Aims to discover and promote strengths and virtues that enable individuals and communities to thrive.

Overestimating other's noticing and evaluating our appearance, performance and blunders.

A readiness to perceive oneself favorably.

Giving priority to the goals of one's ground defining one's identity accordingly.

What was remembered- it was the censored version of the dream

What was not remembered in the dream ( what Freud was interested in the most).

The Oedipus complex but for girls.

Emerge when the ego cannot create balance and these are methods that reduce anxiety by distorting reality.

Accepted id, ego, superego, that personality was defined in childhood and in the unconscious. Differed by increasing the role of the conscious and decreasing the roles of sex and violence.

According to Alder, it occurs when we fail to overcome struggles as kids.

The tendency to overestimate how much others share out beliefs.

Started by Gordon Allport, it focused on the describing the person, rather than why people behaved a certain way.

Questionnaire that sorts people into Carl Jung's personality types ( asks questions like "Do you like routines or spontaneity?")

Approach that personality is influenced by our bodies, minds and interactions with our surroundings.

Whether we feel we are in control or are controlled by external factors.

1. correlating people's feelings of control with their achievements and behaviors

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Focuses on defending yourself and correlates with aggression and antisocial behavior.

Esteem that is not as dependent on outside factors, but more on internal factors like being secure with yourself for who you are.