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20 Cards in this Set
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Personality
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The distinct patterns of behavior, thoughts, and feelings that characterize a persons adaptation to life
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Psychoanalytic theory
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Sigmund Freuds perspective, which emphasizes the importance of unconscious motives and conflicts as forces that determine behavior
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Conscious
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Self aware
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Preconscious
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Capable of being brought into awareness by the focusing of attention
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Unconscious
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In psychoanalytic theory, not available to awareness by simple focusing of attention
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Repression
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A defense mechanism that protects the person from anxiety by ejecting anxiety evoking ideas and impulses from awareness
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Psychoanalysis
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In this usage, Freud's method of exploring human personality
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Psychic Structure
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In Psychoanalytic theory, a hypothesized mental structure that helps explain different aspects of behavior
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Id
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The psychic structure, present at birth, that represents physiological drives and is fully unconscious
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Ego
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The second psychic structure to develop, characterized by self awareness, planning and delay of gratification
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Defense mechanism
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In psychoanalytic theory, an unconscious function of the ego that protects it from anxiety-evoking material by preventing accurate recognition of this material
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Superego
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The third psychic structure which functions as a moreal guardian and sets forth high standards for behavior
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identification
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In psychoanalytic theory, the unconscious adoption of another persons behavior
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Libido
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Sexual interest or drive
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Erogenous Zone
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An area of the body that is sensitive to sexual sensations
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Psychosexual development
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In psychoanalytic theory, the process by which libidinal energy is expressed through different erogenous zones during different stages of development
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Oral Stage
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The first stage of psychosexual development, during which gratification os hypothesized to be attained primarily through oral activities
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fixation
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in psychoanalytic theory, arrested development. Attachment ot objects of an earlier stage
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anal Stage
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The second stage of psycho sexual development, when gratification is attained through anal activities
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BL 1
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Just dorsal to the medial canthus of the eye.
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