AP Psych Modules 60-64

Personality

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

Psychodymanic theories

Theories that view personality with a focus on the unconscious and the importance of childhood experiences

Psychoanalysis

Freud’s therapeutic technique used in treating psychological disorders. Freud believed the patient’s free associations, resistances, dreams, and transferences - and the therapist’s interpretations of them - released previously repressed feelings, allowing the patient to gain self-insight

Unconscious

According to Freud, a reservoir of mostly unacceptable thoughts, wishes, feelings, and memories

Free association

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

Id

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

Ego

The largely conscious, “executive” part of personality that, according to Freud, mediates among the demands of the id, superego, and reality. It operates on the reality principle, satisfying the id’s desires in ways that