Chapter 2 Name:________________________
Period:__________
- The id is the thoughtful, decision-making part
of the personality.
- Safety needs include the need for friends,
love, and acceptance,
- People with high self esteem accept themselves
for who they are.
- Compensation and regression are examples of defense
mechanisms.
- Describe a mentally healthy person.
- Explain how heredity and environment interact to
shape personality.
- What did Freud believe to be the most important
influences on personality?
- Compare and contrast the personality the theories of
Freud, Erickson, and Maslow.
- According to Erickson, what conflict do teenagers
face?
- The unique combination of traits that makes each
person an individual?
- An ordering of a person’s needs from most basic to
self-fulfillment?
- Able to express one’s feelings in a non-threatening
way?
- The part of an individual’s personality that
distinguishes between right and wrong?
- A thought of which a person is not aware, but which
affects a person’s behavior?
- A friendly and outgoing person?
- A way of dealing with an uncomfortable feeling or
situation?
- An optimist focuses on the negative side of
things.
- A psychologist studies the human mind and
behavior.
- Conscious thoughts are thoughts of which a
person is aware.
- Sigmund Freud devised an eight-stage theory of
personality development that covers a person’s entire life span.
- The process of striving to reach one’s full potential?
- How much one likes oneself of feels good about
oneself?
- A reaction to a situation that involves a person’s
mind, body, and behavior?
- What factors affect self-esteem?
- Explain why love is such a positive and important
emotion?
- How can quilt and fear be positive emotions? How can
they be negative emotions?
- Give an example of a situation in which using a
defense mechanism is a beneficial.
- List 2 harmful coping strategies that people
sometimes use to cope with strong emotions. Next to each, give a reason
why it is a harmful response.
- Describe a person in your life that has achieved
self-actualization?
- Describe who you are. And the hope of whom you want
to become?