PERSONALITY PSYCHOLOGY DOMAINS OF
KNOWLEDGE ABOUT HUMAN NATURE
FINAL PAPER FULL QUESTIONS AND
CORRECT ANSWERS ALREADY PASSED
●● Sigmund Freud
Answer: Austrian physician whose work focused on the unconscious
causes of behavior and personality formation; founded psychoanalysis.
●● Psychoanalysis
Answer: Freud's theory of personality that attributes thoughts and
actions to unconscious motives and conflicts; the techniques used in
treating psychological disorders by seeking to expose and interpret
unconscious tensions
●● unconscious mind
Answer: level of the mind in which thoughts, feelings, memories, and
other information are kept that are not easily or voluntarily brought into
consciousness
●● preconscious mind
Answer: Freud's term for what is stored in one's memory that one is not
presently aware of but can access
, ●● conscious mind
Answer: level of the mind that is aware of immediate surroundings and
perceptions
●● free association (psychoanalysis)
Answer: a method of exploring the unconscious in which the person
relaxes and says whatever comes to mind, no matter how trivial or
embarrassing
●● Id (Freud)
Answer: a reservoir of unconscious psychic energy that, according to
Freud, strives to satisfy basic sexual and aggressive drives. The id
operates on the pleasure principle, demanding immediate gratification
●● ego (Freud)
Answer: the largely conscious, "executive" part of personality that
mediates among the demands of the id, superego, and reality. The ego
operates on the reality principle, satisfying the id's desires in ways that
will realistically bring pleasure rather than pain.
●● Superego (Freud)
Answer: he partly conscious part of personality that, according to Freud,
represents internalized ideals and provides standards for judgment (the
conscience) and for future aspirations.
KNOWLEDGE ABOUT HUMAN NATURE
FINAL PAPER FULL QUESTIONS AND
CORRECT ANSWERS ALREADY PASSED
●● Sigmund Freud
Answer: Austrian physician whose work focused on the unconscious
causes of behavior and personality formation; founded psychoanalysis.
●● Psychoanalysis
Answer: Freud's theory of personality that attributes thoughts and
actions to unconscious motives and conflicts; the techniques used in
treating psychological disorders by seeking to expose and interpret
unconscious tensions
●● unconscious mind
Answer: level of the mind in which thoughts, feelings, memories, and
other information are kept that are not easily or voluntarily brought into
consciousness
●● preconscious mind
Answer: Freud's term for what is stored in one's memory that one is not
presently aware of but can access
, ●● conscious mind
Answer: level of the mind that is aware of immediate surroundings and
perceptions
●● free association (psychoanalysis)
Answer: a method of exploring the unconscious in which the person
relaxes and says whatever comes to mind, no matter how trivial or
embarrassing
●● Id (Freud)
Answer: a reservoir of unconscious psychic energy that, according to
Freud, strives to satisfy basic sexual and aggressive drives. The id
operates on the pleasure principle, demanding immediate gratification
●● ego (Freud)
Answer: the largely conscious, "executive" part of personality that
mediates among the demands of the id, superego, and reality. The ego
operates on the reality principle, satisfying the id's desires in ways that
will realistically bring pleasure rather than pain.
●● Superego (Freud)
Answer: he partly conscious part of personality that, according to Freud,
represents internalized ideals and provides standards for judgment (the
conscience) and for future aspirations.
