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Exam 3 PSY 121 MSU MCNEW Exam Questions and Answers
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Exam 3 PSY 121 MSU MCNEWPersonality - Answer-Unique and stable ways people think, feel, and behave.
Psychodynamic (1/4 main Perspective) - Answer-Freud
Conscious
Preconscious
Unconscious
Conscious - Answer-Contact with outside world
Precociousness - Answer-Material just beneath the surface of awareness
Unconscious - Answer-Difficult to retrieve material; well below the surface of awareness
ID - Answer-Works on pleasure principle
Feels good, do it
Unconscious
, Superego - Answer-Morals, values, things you believe to be true that are good & important
Unconscious
Ego - Answer-The "I"
Responsible for making decisions
Deals with the conflict between what feels good and what is right.
Psychological Defense Mechanisms - Answer-Unconscious distortions of a person's perception of reality
that reduce stress and anxiety.
Denial (PDM) - Answer-Refusal to recognize or acknowledge a threatening situation. (Alcoholic)
Repression (PDM) - Answer-"Pushing" threatening or conflicting events or situations out of conscious
memory. (Cannot remember a rape)
Rationalization (PDM) - Answer-Making up acceptable excuses for unacceptable behavior. (Skip a meal
to eat cake)
Projection (PDM) - Answer-Placing one's own unacceptable thoughts onto others as if the thoughts
belonged to them and not to oneself. (Denies her physical attraction to someone and pushes it off as
them being attracted to her)
Reaction Formation (PDM) - Answer-Forming an emotional reaction or attitude that is the opposite of
one's threatening or unacceptable actual thoughts. (Someone who is secretly gay produces extreme
homophobia)
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