Psychology

Openness to Experience

intellectually curious and unconventional
Agreeableness

friendly and easy to get along with
Conscientiousness

careful and responsible
Neuroticism

tense and moody
Extraversion

social and lively
Freud

Most widely respected/ critized theorist
Therapists

interpert dreams, seek unconsciou motives and the interaction of structures of personality
Id

reservior of our most primitive impulses, including sex and aggression.
Ego

Psyche's executive and principal
Superego

our sense of morality.
pleasure principle

tendency of the id to strive for immediate gratification
reality principle

tendency of the ego to postpone gratification until it can find an appropriate outlet.
repression

motivated forgetting of emotionally threatening memories or impluses.
sublimation

transforming a socially unacceptable impluse into an admired goal.
Oral Stage

psycholsexual stage that focuses on the mouth
Anal Stage

Psychosexual stage that focuses on toliet training
phallic stage

psychosexual stage that focuses on the genitals
Neo-Freudians

people who are against freud.
Neo-Freudians

adler, Jung
Behaviorists

believe personality is controlled by genetic factors and contingencies

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Psychology

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personality

Updated

11/10/2010, 4:50:14 AM

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