Psychology Worksheet

Creating false but plausible excuses to justify bad behavior
Developmental periods with a characteristic sexual focus that leave their mark on adult personality
The weakening of a response because it is followed by an unpleasant stimulus
The moral component of personality that incorporates social standards about what is right and wrong
Thoughts, memories, and desires that are well below the surface of conscious awareness
Emotionally charged images and thought forms that have universal meaning
A reversion to immature patterns of behavior
Whatever someone is aware of at a particular point in time
The primitive, instinctive component of personality (pleasure principle)
Largely unconscious reactions that protect a person from painful emotions
Attributing one's own thoughts, motives, and feelings to another person
A failure to move forward from one stage to another as expected
Children manifest desires for other-sex parent and hostility towards same-sex parent
A storehouse of latent memory traces inherited from ancestors
Efforts to overcome real or imagined inferiorities by developing one's abilities
A theoretical orientation that believes scientific psychology should study observable behavior
A response is strengthened because it is followed by a pleasant stimulus
A form of learning in which voluntary responses come to be controlled by their consequences
Keeping distressing thoughts and feelings buried in the unconscious
Behaving in a way that is exactly the opposite of one's true feelings
Diverting emotional feelings from their original source to a substitute target
Bolstering self-esteem by forming an imaginary or real alliance with a person or group
A response is strengthened because it is followed by an unpleasant stimulus
An organisms response is influenced by the observation of others, called models