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18 Cards in this Set
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What is psychoanalysis?
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Freud's term for his theory of personality and his therapy for treating psychological disorders
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What is conscious?
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thoughts, feelings, sensations, or memories of which a person is aware at any given moment
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What is preconscious?
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thoughts, feelings, and memories that a person is not consciously aware of at the moment but that may be easily brought to consciousness
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What is unconscious?
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for freud, the primary motivating force of human behavior, containing repressed memories as well as instincts, wishes and desires that have never been conscious
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What is Id?
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the unconscious system of the personality, which contains the life and death instincts and operates on the pleasure principle; source of the libido
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what is ego?
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If Freud's theory, the logicla, rational, largely conscious system of personality, which operates according to the reality principle.
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what is sublimation?
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a defense mechanism in which one rechannels sexual or aggresive energy into pursuits or accomplishments that society considers acceptable or admirable
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What is psychosxual stages?
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a series of stages through which the sexual instinct develops; each stage is defined by an erogenous zone around which conflict arises
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what is fixation?
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arrested development at a psychosexual stage occuring because of excessive gratification or frustration at that stage
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What is superego?
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the moral system of the personality, which consists of the conscience and the ego ideal
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What is the defense mechanism?
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defend against anxiety and to maintain self-esteem
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What is repression?
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one involuntarily removes painful or threatening memories, thoughts or perceptions from consciousness or prevents unconscious sexual and agrgressive impulses from breaking into consciousness
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Projection
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one attirubtes one's own undesirable thoughts, impulses, personality traits, or behavior to others or minimizes the undesirable in oneself and exaggerates it in others
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denial
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one refuses to acknowldege consciously the existence of danger or a threatening condition
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rationalization
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supplies logical, rational, or socially acceptable reason rather than the real ereason for an action or event
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regression
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reverts to a behavior that might have reduced anxiety at an earlier stage of development
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reaction formation
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expresses exaggerated ideas and emotions that are the opposite of one's disturbing unconscious impulses and desires
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displacement
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substitutes a less threatening object or person for the original object of a sexual or aggressive impulse
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