McGondel’s Psychology Word Test # 1

This is a six letter word which can be associated with either an astrological sign or a person who shoots an arrow.
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The questions are in order as to the first letter of each answer being the corresponding next letter in the target name. Good Luck. Winner gets a free beer at RG hospitality. Enjoy. J

1. A psychological abnormality exemplified by poor, aggressive, and/or overly-assertive behavior in group type situations.

2. The use of various defenses (including denial) to avoid confronting criticistic behavior.

3. An action that one feels one must repeat again and again, in a stereotyped fashion, whether one has the desire to repeat such action or not.

4. The area of the brain that is adversely affected by stress, which can alter this area’s memory retrieval functioning to the extent that a dissociative disorder may develop.

5. Freud’s term for the psychic schema which override one’s id and forces one to react in terms of the “reality principle.”

6. This term is used to describe an mood disorder disturbance which is emotionally or cognitively oriented.

Did ya catch all the subtleties? The interrelationships? The complex layers of meaning? No? All will be revealed at the 2004 Granite Gathering!