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• Teleology


  Holds that behavior is seen in terms of future goals or purposes
• Falsifiable


  The ability of a theory to be confirmed or disconfirmed
• Source and Aim


  Characteristics of an instinct
• Id-dominated


  A person who gives into his/her sexual urges and cheats on his/her partner
• Libido


  Freud's concept of sexual or life energy
• Thanatos


  Freud's term for aggressive energy
• Sublimation


  The most useful and socially-accepted defense mechanism according to Freud
• Unconscious takes different forms according to Freud, except for fantasies
• Style of Life


  Adler's term for a person's innately consistent traits and attitudes towards his/her environment
• Organ Dialect


  Adler's concept of how a person's physical condition or disability is expressed
• Family constellation


  Adler's term for a person's birth order, gender of siblings, and age spread
• Organ dialect


  Adler's concept of how physical symptoms can be used to avoid responsibility
• Depreciation


  The tendency to undervalue other people's achievements and to overvalue one's own
• Regression


  A form of withdrawal wherein one psychologically reverts to a more secure period of life according to Adler
• Consciousness


  The center of the ego in Jungian theory
• Middle life


  The most crucial stage of development according to Jung
• Collective unconscious


  In Jungian theory, this refers to repressed, forgotten, or subliminally perceived experiences that are part of the unconscious
• Wise Old Man


  The archetype that certain political and religious leaders may rely on to influence others, according to Jung
• Anima


  Jung held that this influences irrational moods and feelings in men
• Intuition


  Jung relates this to "seeing around corners"
• Collective Unconscious


  According to psychodynamic theory, this part of the unconscious originates from the experiences of our early ancestors that have been passed on to us through hundreds of generations of repetition
• Competition


  The culture that Karen Horney took particular account of, which leads to exaggerated feelings of isolation and needs for affection
• Both statements about Klein's relationship with her child Erich and eldest child Melitta are false
• Object Relations Theory


  The aim is to explain human connection and interpersonal relationship
• Splitting


  Infants use this as a means to control good and bad aspects of the self
• Superego


  According to Klein, this grows out of the Oedipus complex
• Paranoid-Schizoid


  The position in Object Relations Theory where feelings of anxiety about losing a loved object and guilt over desiring to destroy that object are experienced
• Projection


  The fantasy that one's own feelings actually reside in another person, according to Klein
• Guilt


  The feeling that Klein suggested the superego produces