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Hint	First Letter	Answer	% Correct
An emotion characterized by feelings of tension, worried thoughts, and physical changes like increased blood pressure.	A	Anxiety	85%
In psychoanalytic theory, that portion of the human personality which is experienced as the “self” or “I” and is in contact with the external world through perception.	E	Ego	76%
In psychoanalytic theory, the primitive and instinctive component of personality.	I	Id	71%
A repetitive behavior or mental act that a person feels driven to perform in response to an obsession.	C	Compulsion	69%
An overwhelming and debilitating fear of an object, place, situation, feeling or animal.	P	Phobia	68%
A repeated thought, urge, or mental image that is intrusive, unwanted, and that may cause anxiety.	O	Obsession	62%
A period of extreme anxiety and physical symptoms such as heart palpitations, shakiness, dizziness and racing thoughts.	P	Panic attack	62%
A range of mental processes relating to the acquisition, storage, manipulation, and retrieval of information.	C	Cognition	57%
Any agent, event, or situation — internal or external — that elicits a response.	S	Stimulus	56%
A conscious mental reaction subjectively experienced as a strong feeling usually directed toward a specific object and typically accompanied by physiological and behavioral changes in the body.	E	Emotion	54%
In psychoanalytic theory, the ethical component of the personality that provides the moral standards by which the “self” operates.	S	Superego	54%
The vast sum of operations of the mind that take place below the level of conscious awareness.	U	Unconscious	53%
A mental process where a person disconnects from their thoughts, feelings, memories or sense of identity.	D	Dissociation	52%
In psychoanalytic theory, psychic drive or energy, usually conceived as sexual in nature, but sometimes conceived as including other forms of desire.	L	Libido	46%
A defense mechanism by which an individual unconsciously attributes their behaviors, emotions, impulses, undesirable characteristics, and thoughts to others.	P	Projection	45%
A false perception of objects or events involving one’s senses.	H	Hallucination	43%
A defense mechanism by which unpleasant emotions, impulses, memories, and thoughts are pushed out of conscious awareness.	R	Repression	43%
A person's internal and individual sense and experience of gender.	G	Gender identity	40%
The loss of at least some contact with reality, possibly involving hallucinations, delusions and/or disorientation.	P	Psychosis	38%
The process of rewarding or reinforcing desirable behavior in order to increase the likelihood that the behavior will be repeated in the future.	P	Positive reinforcement	34%
A defense mechanism whereby one attempts to justify behaviors, thoughts or feelings with a logical (but false) explanation.	R	Rationalization	33%
The gradual weakening of a conditioned response that results in the behavior decreasing or disappearing.	E	Extinction	31%
A decrease in response to a stimulus after repeated presentations.	H	Habituation	31%
The psychoanalytic technique of allowing a patient to discuss, without input or direction, thoughts, dreams, memories, or words, regardless of coherency, in order to analyze current issues.	F	Free association	26%
Orientation toward the internal private world of one’s self and one’s inner thoughts and feelings, rather than toward the outer world of people and things.	I	Introversion	25%
Anything, internal or external, that applies psychological pressure on an individual.	S	Stressor	25%
The ability to both manage one’s own emotions and understand the emotions of people around one.	E	Emotional intelligence	24%
A logical approach whereby one uses general observations to make specific conclusions.	D	Deductive reasoning	16%
A type of cognitive bias in which our overall impression of a person influences how we feel and think about their character.	H	Halo effect	13%
A tendency to fill in gaps in our memory with information we learned after the event, and to believe the “filler” represents actual memories.	R	Reconstruction	6%