Ap psychology vocabulary

Denial

Refuse to take accountability of an action

Unconscious

Region of unacceptable thoughts, drives, wishes, feelings, memories

Preconscious

Contain thoughts and awareness not in our current awareness, but easy to retrieve

William james

American philosopher, exercise the function of consciousness, influenced the work of Charles Darwin, theory of evolution, wrote the first comprehension book of psychology principles of psychology 1890

Free Association

Window to the unconscious mind

Hypnosis

Social interaction in which the person-the hypnotist- makes forceful suggestions to another person that events or responses will occur

Reaction Formation

Act opposite of true feelings

Regression

Go back to earlier stage

Repression

Block bad memories

Psychology

It is a science, the study of behavior and mental processes. Use of scientific research methods in attempts to find answers

Wilhelm Wundt

Leipzig, Germany, 1879 father of psychology. Introduced structuralism, used a process called introspection. First person to study humans in a laboratory setting.

Displacement

Shift an impulse caused by an anxiety producing stimulus to less anxiety producing one

Projection

Reduced anxiety by accusing others of doing something we have done

Rationalization

Create good reason

Oral stage

18 months to three years, pleasure comes from chewing, biting, or sucking

Phallic stage

3 to 6 years, pleasure zone-shifts to the genitals

Anal stage

18 months to three years-gratification- bowel or bladder function, potty training-conflict during that

Freudian slip

A misstatement reflective of something you like to say