Psy Personality- Rorschach Inkblot Test – Flashcards

An individual's characteristic pattern of thinking, feeling, and acting

View personality with a focus on the unconscious and the importance of childhood experiences

A method of exploring the unconscious in which the person relaxes and says whatever comes to mind, no matter how trivial or embarrassing

Freud's theory of personality that attributes thoughts and actions to unconscious motives and conflicts

A reservoir of mostly unacceptable thoughts, wishes, feelings, and memories. Information processing of which we are unaware.

A reservoir of unconscious psychic energy that strives to satisfy basic sexual and aggressive drives, operates on the pleasure principle, demanding immediate gratification.

The largely conscious, "executive" part of personality that mediates among the demands of the id, superego, and reality. (Reality Principle)

The part of personality that represents internalized ideals and provides standards for judgement (the conscience) and for future aspirations

The childhood stages of development (oral, anal,phallic, latency, genital) during which the id's pleasure -seeking energies focus on distinct erogenous zones

A boy's sexual desires toward his mother and feelings of jealousy and hatred for the rival father

The process by which children incorporate their parents' values into their developing superegos

A lingering focus of pleasure-seeking energies at an earlier psychosexual stage, in which conflicts were unresolved

The ego's protective methods of reducing anxiety by unconsciously distorting reality

The basic defense mechanism that banishes anxiety-arousing thoughts, feelings, and memories from consciousness

Carl Jung's concept of a shared, inherited reservoir of memory traces from our species' history

A personality test, such as the Rorschach, that provides ambiguous stimuli designed to trigger projection of one's inner dynamics

The most widely used projective test, a set of 10 inkblots, designed by Hermann Rorschach; seeks to identify people's inner feelings by analyzing their interpretations of the blots