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12 Cards in this Set
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Personality
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A person's internally based characteristic ways of acting and thinking
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conscious mind
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Freud's term for what you are presently aware of
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Preconscious mind
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Freud's term for what is stored in your memory that you are not presently aware of but can access
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Unconscious mind
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Freud's term for the part of our mind that we cannot become aware of (not accessible)
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id
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The part of the personality that a person is born with, where the biological instinctual drives reside, and that is located totally within the unconscious mind
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Pleasure Principle
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The principle of seeking immediate gratification for instinctual drives without concern for the consequences
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Ego
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The part of the personality that starts developing in the first year or so of life to find realistic outlets for the id's instinctual drives
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Reality Principle
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The principle of finding gratification for instinctual drives within the constraints of reality (norms of society)
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Superego
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The part of the personality that represents one's conscience and idealized standards of behavior.
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Defense Mechanism
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A process used by the ego to distort reality and protect a person from anxiety
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erogenous zone
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the area of the body where the id's pleasure seeking energies are focused during a particular stage of psychosexual development
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fixation
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some of the id's pleasure seeking energies remaining in a psychosexual stage due to excessive or insufficient gratification of instinctual needs.
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