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Ego - The conscious portion of the personality structure which serves to mediate between the demands of the primitive instinctual drives, (the id), of internalized parental and social prohibitions or the conscience, (the superego), and of reality. |
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Extraversion (Psychology) - A state in which attention is largely directed outward from the self. |
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Id - The part of the personality structure which harbors the unconscious instinctive desires and strivings of the individual. |
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Identity Crisis - Chaotic concept of self wherein one's role in life appears to be an insoluble dilemma often expressed by isolation, withdrawal, rebellion and extremism. |
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Individuation - A process of differentiation having for its goal the development of the individual personality. |
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Introversion (Psychology) - A state in which attention is largely directed inward upon one's self. |
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Moral Development - The process by which individuals internalize standards of right and wrong conduct. |
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Psychosexual Development - The stages of development of the psychological aspects of sexuality from birth to adulthood; i.e., oral, anal, genital, and latent periods. |
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Self Concept - A person's view of himself. |
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Superego - The component of the personality associated with ethics, standards, and self-criticism - the "conscience". It is derived mainly from identification with parents and parent substitutes. |
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Type A Personality - Established behavior pattern characterized by excessive drive and ambition, impatience, competitiveness, sense of time urgency, and poorly contained aggression. |
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Unconscious (Psychology) - Those forces and content of the mind which are not ordinarily available to conscious awareness or to immediate recall. |
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