Psychology 110 - Final Exam Questions With 100% Correct Answers.

Sexual Orientation - the direction of a person's emotional and erotic attraction towards members of the opposite sex, the same sex, or both sexes Gender - the cultural, social, and psychological meanings that are associated with masculinity or femininity Gender Roles - the behaviors, attitudes, and personality traits that are designated as either masculine or feminine Gender Identity - a person's psychological sense of being male or female Social Learning Theory of Gender-Role Development - the theory that gender roles are acquired through the basic processes of learning, including reinforcement, punishment, and modeling Gender Schema Theory - the theory that gender-role development is influenced by the formation of schemas, or mental representations, of masculinity and femininity Personality - an individual's unique and relatively consistent patterns of thinking, feeling, and behaving Personality Theory - a theory that attempts to describe and explain similarities and differences in people's patterns of thinking, feeling, and behaving Psychoanalysis - Sigmund Freud's theory of personality, which emphasizes unconscious determinants of behavior, sexual and aggressive instinctual drives, and the enduring effects of early childhood experiences on later personality development Free Association - a psychoanalytical technique in which the patient spontaneously reports all thoughts, feelings, and mental images as they come to mind Unconscious - in Freud's theory, a term used to describe thoughts, feelings, wishes, and drives that are operating below the level of conscious awarenessId - Latin for "the it;" in Freud's theory, the completely unconscious, irrational component of personality that seeks immediate satisfaction of instinctual urges and drives; ruled by the pleasure principle Eros - the self-preservation or life instinct, reflected in the expression of basic biological urges that perpetuate the existence of the individual and the species Libido - the psychological and emotional energy associated with expressions of sexuality; the sex drive Thanatos - the death instinct, reflected in aggressive, destructive, and self-destructive actions Pleasure Principal - the motive to obtain pleasure and avoid tension or discomfort; the most fundamental human motive and the guiding principle of the id Ego - Latin for "I;" in Freud's theory, the partly conscious rational component of personality that regulates thoughts and behavior, and is most in touch with the demands of the external world Reality Principle - the capacity to accommodate external demands by postponing gratification until the appropriate time or circumstances exist