Chapter 11

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What is a personality?

Back

Efforts to understand our uniqueness as individuals and the characteristics that account for consistencies in our behavior over time.

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What is the psychoanalytic theory?

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Personality is shaped by underlying conflicts between opposing forces within the mind.

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What is conscious?

Back

To Freud, the part of the mind corresponding to the state of present awareness.

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What is precociousness?

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To Freud, the part of the mind whose contents can be brought into awareness through focused attention.

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What is unconscious?

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the part of the mind that lies outside the range of ordinary awareness and that contains primitive drives and instincts.

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Repression

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Expulsion from awareness of unacceptable ideas or motives

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Regression

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The return of behavior that is typical of earlier stages of development

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Denial

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Refusal to recognize a threatening impulse or desire

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Displacement

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The transfer of unacceptable impulses away from their original objects onto safer or less threatening objects

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Reaction formation

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Behaving in a way that is the opposite of one's true wishes or desires in order to keep these repressed