| Psychodynamic | | a cognitive expectancy featured in social-cognitive learning theories of personality about the source of individual outcomes |
| Id | | a stable personality characteristic |
| Ego | | the component of Sigmund Freud's personality theory containing primitive drives present at birth |
| Superego | | patterns of thought, feelings, and actions we perceive in our own minds |
| Defense mechanism | | Swiss psychologist Hermann Rorschach |
| Example of defense mechanism | | People’s description of their own characteristics |
| Trait | | a judgement of the value of the self |
| Big Five theory | | a theory put forward by Sigmund Freud in which psychic energy moves among the compartments of the personality; id, ego and superego |
| | | Rorschach Inkblot Test |
| Openness | | Warmth, gregariousness, assertiveness, activity, excitement-seeking, positive-emotion |
| Conscientiousness | | anxiety, angry hostility, depression, self-consciousness, impulsiveness, vulnerability |
| Extroversion | | Missing phrase2 - 10 |
| Agreeableness | | the component of Sigmund Freud's personality theory that is the self that others see |
| Neuroticism | | Trust, straightforwardness, altruism, compliance, modesty, tender-mindedness |
| Interpersonal Self | | Competence, order, dutifulness, achievement-striving,self-discipline, deliberation |
| Social-cognitive learning theory | | a trait theory that identifies five main characteristics that account for most individual differences in personality |
| Locus of control | | a theory of personality that features cognition and learning especially from the social environment, as important sources of individual differences in personality |
| External locus of control | | an objective test, often using numbered scales or multiple choice, used to assess personality |
| Internal locus of control | | the self we are, in the presence of other people |
| Temperament | | Fantasy, aesthetics, feelings, actions, ideas, values |
| Personality inventory | | Denial, repression, projection |
| One of the most frequently used personality inventories . | | the component of Sigmund Freud's personality theory that internalizes society's rules for right and wrong, or the conscience |
| Projective test | | a test of personality based on Freudian theory that provides an ambiguous stimulus onto which test takers "project" their personality |
| One of the most famous projective tests | | Sees outcomes as resulting from luck or chance |
| Creator of Inkblot Test | | a child's pattern of mood, activity, or emotional responsiveness linked to later personality |
| Self | | In Sigmund Freud's personality theory, a protective behavior that reduces anxiety |
| Self-concept | | sees outcomes as the result of individual effort |
| Self-esteem | | MMPI |
