Chapter 12: Personality Crossword

A pattern of enduring, distinctive thoughts, emotions, and behaviors that characterize the way an individual adapts to the world.
Theoretical views emphasizing that personality is primarily unconscious. (beyond awareness)
Psychodynamic theorist who believed that behavior is only a surface characteristic and that to truly understand someone’s personality, we have to explore the symbolic meaning of that behavior and the deep inner workings of their mind.
The part of the mind which is inaccessible to the conscious mind but which affects behavior and emotions.
The psychodynamic approach to personality found by work with patients.
The freudian structure of personality consisting of unconscious drives; the individual’s reservoir of sexual energy.
The Freudian concept that the id seeks immediate gratification
The Freudian structure of personality that deals with the demands of reality
An individual’s ego trying to obtain what it wants within the norms of society.
Defense Mechanisms: The Freudian term for tactics the ego uses to reduce anxiety by unconsciously distorting reality
Pushes id impulses back into the unconscious state of mind to reduce anxiety.
The ego replaces a less acceptable motive with a more acceptable one by thinking through a conscious mind
Seeing impulses a person fears in themselves in others
Tendency of a repressed wish or feeling to be expressed at a conscious level in contrasting form
Mature type of defense mechanism, in which socially unacceptable impulses turned into acceptable actions
Unconscious defense mechanism whereby the mind substitutes either a new aim or a new object for goals felt in their original form to be dangerous or unacceptable.
Defense mechanism that involves the refusal to accept the reality
Return to earlier stages of development and abandoned forms of gratification belonging to them, promoted by dangers or conflicts arising at one of the later stages.
Central element of the psychoanalytic sexual drive theory. Personality developed through a series of childhood stages in which pleasure seeking energies form the ID become focused on erroneous areas.
Persistent focus of the ID’s pleasure - seeking energies at an earlier stage of psychosexual development
Complex of emotions aroused in a young child by an unconscious sexual desire for the parent of the opposite sex and wish to include the parent of the same sex.
Psychoanalytic approach derived from the influence of Sigmund Freud but extending his theories towards typically social or cultural aspects over biological.
Developed the neurosis theories, believed neurosis resulted from anxiety by intrapersonal relationships.
Founder of analytical psychology
Unconscious mind derived from ancestral memory and experience is common to human kind as the distinct from the individual’s unconscious.