PERSONALITY THEORY TERMS, CONCEPTS QUESTIONS WITH CORRECT ANSWERS

Personality Correct Answer an individual's characteristic pattern of thinking, feeling, and acting free association Correct Answer in psychoanalysis, a method of exploring the unconscious in which the person relaxes and says whatever comes to mind, no matter how trivial or embarrassing. psychoanalysis Correct 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 Correct Answer according to Freud, a reservoir of mostly unacceptable thoughts, wishes, feelings, and memories. According to contemporary psychologists, information processing of which we are unaware id Correct Answer contains a reservoir of unconscious psychic energy that, according to Freud, strives to satisfy basic sexual and aggressive drives. It operates on the pleasure principle, demanding immediate gratification ego Correct Answer the largely conscious, "executive" part of personality that, according to Freud, mediates among the demands of the id, superego, and reality. It operates on the reality principle, satisfying the id's desires in ways that will realistically bring pleasure rather than pain superego Correct Answer the part of personality that, according to Freud, represents internalized ideals and provides standards for judgment (the conscience) and for future aspirations Thanatos Correct Answer Freud's name for the "death instinct"; our unconscious aggressive, destructive drive Eros Correct Answer the instinct toward life, posited by Freud; a loving, constructive drive psychosexual stages Correct Answer the childhood stages of development (oral, anal, phallic, latency, genital) during which, according to Freud, the id's pleasure-seeking energies focus on distinct erogenous zones oral phase Correct Answer (psychoanalysis) the first sexual and social stage of an infant's development