Exam 2: Personality: What It Is, How Its Measured

According to Carl Rogers, we all have unique ways of looking at ourselves and at the world outside.

For Freud, instinctual drives such as sex and aggression are contained in the ______.

Existential philosophy is an underpinning of _______ psychology.

People who are high on ______ tend to live longer and happier lives.

According to Maslow, which needs were at the TOP of his needs hierarchy? (meaning, the last needs to be satisfied)

For Freud, the principle that seeks instant gratification of instinctual demands without regard to social consequences or the needs of others is the ______ principle.

Adler, like Jung, believed that ______ plays a major role in the formation of personality.

For Erikson, one's sense of who one is and what one stands for is known as ______.

Self-deceiving excuses or justifications used to explain unacceptable behavior that exonerate us from blame and guilt are examples of ______.

The method originated by Freud, through which he helped people explore their mind and personality, is called ______.

Each of the following is central to the psychodynamic theorists' views of what constitutes a healthy personality except ______.

According to Freud, eros contains energy that is psychological in nature and involves sexual impulses. He called this psychic energy ______.

People can make themselves miserable by encoding stimuli in self-defeating ways.

Andy is 3 years old. He has developed a strong attachment toward his mother and sees his father as a rival for his mother's affections. According to Freud, he is in the ______ stage.

In ______, an organism learns to engage in a certain behavior because of the consequences of that behavior.

Self-regulation minimizes our opportunities for influencing our environment.

Which needs were at the BOTTOM of Maslow's needs hierarchy? (meaning, the first to be satisfied)

A conservative woman who cannot accept her sexual desires goes on a holy crusade to ban pornography. This is an example of ______.

Sigmund Freud was trained as a psychologist.

In psychodynamic theory, the process by which libidinal energy is expressed through different erogenous zones at different stages of development is known as ______ development.