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Psychology
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The discipline concerned with behavior and mental processes and how they're affected by and organism's physical state, and external environment. |
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Personality
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A distinctive and relatively stable pattern of behavior, thoughts, motives, and emotions that characterizes an individual. |
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Trait
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A characteristic of an individual, describing a habitual way of behaving, thinking, or feeling. |
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Frued |
Frued believed have far more power over our personalities than our conscious intentions do.
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Psychoanalysis |
A theory of personality and a method of psychotherapy developed by Frued; it emphasizes unconscious motives and conflicts. |
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id |
In psychoanalysis, the part of personality containing inherited psychic energy, particularly sexual and aggressive instincts. |
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ego |
In psychoanalysis, the part of personality that represents reason, good sense, and rational self-control. |
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superego |
In psychoanalysis, the part of personality that represents conscience, morality, and social standards. |
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Core Personality Traits (5 Major Personality Dimensions) |
Repression, Projection, Displacement, Regression, Denial. |
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Repression |
Occurs when a threatening idea, memory, or emotion is blocked from consciousness: for example, a woman who had a frightening childhood experience that she cannot remember is said to be repressing her memory of it.
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