Psyc Quest word & terms

Defense mechanism

Personality

an individuals characteristics pattern of thinking, feeling, acting

Denial

a defense mechanism that ego, uses where a person refuses to recognize or acknowledge something that is painful

Displacement

the shift of emotion from its original focus to another object, person, situation

Free association

A method used in psychoanalysis, where a patient and says whatever comes to mind

Archetypes

universal symbol that tend to reappear overtime, includes models of people, behaviors and personality

Neo - Freudians

psychologists who modified freuds psychoanalytic theory to add social

social cognitive theory

a perspective on personality that takes a person motivation, environment, and behavior into account

Analytical psychology

based on the idea that balancing a persons psych would allow the person to reach their full potential

Collective unconscious

the shared, inherited pool of memories from our ancestors