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AP Psychology - Development and Personality...

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1. Personality
An individual’s characteristic traits over various times and situations.
2. Id
The part of the personality that strives for immediate gratification.
3. Ego
The part of the personality that operates on the reality principle.
4. Superego
The part of the personality that strives for ideals and perfection.
5. Psychosexual stages
Freud’s developmental stages divided by focus on different erogenous zones.
6. Oedipus complex
A boy’s jealousy of his father and sexual desire for his mother.
7. Identification
Children’s attempt to incorporate their rival (same-sex) parent’s values.
8. Fixation
Focus on conflicts from unresolved psychosexual stages.
9. Defense mechanisms
Unconscious distortion of reality in order to reduce anxiety.
10. Repression
Defense mechanism that eliminates anxiety by removing unpleasant thoughts and feelings from one’s consciousness.
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Personality An individual’s characteristic traits over various times and situations. An individual’s core thoughts, feelings, and actions usually remain consistent over time. This is a broad term for describing how those elements combine to make up the individual.
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