• PSYCHOSEXUAL STAGES - The childhood stages of development (oral, anal, phallic, latency, genital) during which, according to Freud, the id's pleasure seeking energies focus on distinct erogenous zones.
• ORAL STAGE - The first of Freud's psychosexual stages, from birth to 18 months, during which sensual pleasure centers on the mouth via sucking, biting, and chewing. Ex. pleasures are usually derived from the mouth. Ex. rooting reflux
• ANAL STAGE - The second of Freud's psychosexual stages, from about 18 months to 3 years, during which pleasure focuses on bowel and bladder elimination, retention, and control. Ex. a child would feel the longer he/she can hold it in, the more pleasure derived when released.
• PHALLIC STAGE - The third of Freud's psychosexual stages, from about ages 3-6, during which the pleasure zone is the genitals and sexual feelings arise toward the parent of the other sex. Ex. seems that kids feel attracted towards parents of the opposite sex - daughter attracted to father, son attracted to mother.
• OEDIPUS COMPLEX - According to Freud, a child's sexual desires toward the parent of the other sex and feelings of jealousy and hatred for the rival parent of the same sex. Ex. daughter feels jealous of mother because of feelings toward father.
• LATENCY STAGE - The 4th of Freud's psychosexual stages, from about age 6 to puberty, during which sexual impulses are repressed. Ex. feelings of guilt emerge having sexual thoughts and are repressed.
• GENITAL STAGE - The last of Freud's psychosexual stages, beginning in puberty, during which sexuality matures and the person seeks pleasure through sexual contact with others. Ex. people reach out to others for pleasure seeking methods - teenagers, dating etc.

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• PSYCHOLOGICAL DISORDER - a condition in which behavior is judged atypical, disturbing, maladaptive, and unjustifiable. Ex. panic attacks, phobias, OCD, odd & eccentric are all psychological disorders.
• NEUROTIC DISORDERS - former term for psychological disorders that are usually distressing, but allow one to think rationally and function socially. Freud saw the neurotic disorders as ways of dealing with anxiety. Ex. The person is still reasonable. He/She is (usually) just trying to relieve stress.
• PSYCHOTIC DISORDERS - psychological disorders in which a person loses contact with reality, experiencing irrational ideas and distorted perceptions. Ex. A person may lose touch with reality in extreme situations, such as being trapped in a large snow storm.
• ANXIETY DISORDERS - psychological disorders characterized by distressing, persistent anxiety or maladaptive behaviors that reduce anxiety. Ex. OCD - people with these disorders usually are trying to relieve stress.
• PHOBIC DISORDERS - an anxiety disorder marked by a persistent, irrational fear of a specific object or situation. Ex. phobias usually tend to be irrational, like arachnophobia, fear of clouds, school, urinating etc.
• ANTISOCIAL PERSONALITY - a personality disorder in which the person (usually a man) exhibits a lack of conscience for wrongdoing, even toward friends and family members. May be aggressive and ruthless or a clever con artist. Ex. expresses little regret over violating others' rights.

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• SEXUAL RESPONSE CYCLE - The four stages of sexual responding described by Masters and Johnson - excitement, plateau, orgasm, and resolution.
• REFRACTORY PERIOD - A resting period after orgasm, during which a man cannot achieve another orgasm.

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• RECIPROCAL DETERMINISM - The interacting influences between personality and environmental factors. Ex. the kind of society one lives in also decides what kind of person one will become - society based
• SELF-SERVING BIAS - A readiness to perceive oneself favorably. Ex. an idea that would better favor or support oneself than others.
• EXTERNAL LOCUS OF CONTROL - The perception that chance or outside forces beyond one's personal control determine one's fate. Ex. an earthquake or weather related situations are external locus - beyond self control.
• INTERNAL LOCUS OF CONTROL - The perception that one controls ones own fate. Ex. where to live, who to know, how to act are all internal locus of control - within self control
• LEARNED HELPLESSNESS - The hopelessness and passive resignation learned when an animal or human is unable to avoid repeated aversive events. Ex. defenseless - the idea that the situation is beyond one's control
• DEFENSE MECHANISMS - In psychoanalytic theory, the ego's protective methods of reducing anxiety by unconsciously distorting reality. Ex. refusing to believe that a loved one has died - denial.
• PROJECTION - In psychoanalytical theory, the defense mechanism by which people disguise their own threatening impulses by attributing them to others. Ex. own flaws to others - calling someone a hypocrite when you yourself are one
• DISPLACEMENT - In psychoanalytic theory, the defense mechanism that shifts sexual or aggressive impulses toward a more acceptable or less threatening object or person, as when redirecting anger towards a safer outlet. Ex. taking anger out on someone - 'i've been powerless all day, its my turn to be powerful'

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• Commitment phobic
• Self absorbed
• Emotionally unavailable