KING ALL REVISION QUESTIONS AND CORRECT ANSWERS
(GRADED 100%) (2024 UPDATE)
Personality - answer- a pattern of enduring, distinctive thoughts, emotions, and behaviors that
characterize the way and individual adapts to the world
Psychodynamic perspectives - answer- theoretical views emphasizing that personality is
primarily unconscious; beyond awareness
Psychoanalysis - answer- the name for freud's approach to personality, through his work with
patients suffering from hysteria
Hysteria - answer- physical symptoms that have no physical cause
Id - answer- the part of the person that freud called the "it" consisting of unconscious drives;
the individuals reservoir of sexual energy
Ego - answer- the freudian structure of personality that deals with the demands of reality
Superego - answer- the freudian structure of personality that serves as the harsh internal judge
of our behavior; what we often call conscience
Defense mechanisms - answer- tactics the ego uses to reduce anxiety by unconsciously
distorting reality
Denial (defense mechanism) - answer- the most primitive defense mechanism in which the ego
simply refuses to acknowledge anxiety producing realities.
, Displacement (defense mechanism) - answer- a defense mechanism directing unacceptable
impulses at less threatening target
Sublimation - answer- a defense mechanismm that's a special form of displacement in which
the person expresses an unconscious wish in a socially valued way
Projection - answer- defense mechanism in which we see in others those impulses that we most
fear or despise in ourselves
Repression - answer- a defense mechanism that is the most powerful and pervasive; it's goal is
to avoid threatening impulses, to push them out of awareness
Reaction formation - answer- a defense mechanism in which a person's conscious experience
is the exact opposite of his/her unconscious feelings
Homophobia - answer- prejudice against homosexual people
Autonomy support - answer- allowing a person the freedom to explore and identify his or her
own need, feelings, wishes, and desires
Erogenous zones - answer- parts of the body that have strong, pleasure giving qualities at
particular stages of human development
Oedipus complex - answer- according to freud, a boy's intense desire to replace his father and
enjoy the affections of his mother
Collective unconscious - answer- jung's name for the impersonal, deepest layer of the
unconscious mind, shared by all human beiings because of their common ancestral past