Exam 10: Personality

Horney believed that ________ factors are the most important factors shaping personality.

The Freudian stage in which children must resolve the Oedipus or Electra complex is the ________ stage.

Erikson's stage of trust versus mistrust corresponds chronologically with Freud's ________ stage.

The MMPI-2 and the NEO-PI-R are examples of ________.

A famous psychologist argues that personality theories should emphasize people's potential for growth and change, not just the resolution of unconscious conflicts, as well as the ways they subjectively experience their lives right now. In addition, each individual is personally responsible for his or her own behavior. This psychologist's views are typical of ________ psychology.

Describe Rogers' theory of personality in terms of what Rogers believed were the driving forces of personality and the factors that assisted or prevented people from fully developing their potential.

Freud's personality theory has ________.

Erikson stresses the quality of ________ in personality development.

To assess personality, behaviorists prefer ________.

Freud believed that children lose interest in sexual behavior at the end of the ________ stage.

Jenny is 15 years old. She is capable of mature sexuality, is able to postpone gratification, and handle responsibility. According to Freud, she is in the ________ stage.

Gerald takes great pride in his sexual prowess and treats women with contempt. Yet, he feels worthless and has low self-esteem. In Freud's view, he is probably fixated in the ________ stage.

In Freud's view, a partial or complete halt in an individual's psychosexual development is called ________.

The Big Five personality dimensions appear to be essentially fixed, and unlikely to change by age ________.

The latency period lasts from about ________ years of age.

In assessing personality, we are most interested in a person's ________ behavior.

A personality that consisted of only the ego and the id would be completely ________.

According to Rogers, the primary goal of life is to ________.

Identify and discuss Freud's psychosexual stages in terms of when they occur, the key events at each stage, and the effects of problems occurring at each stage.

The use of objective personality tests has been favored primarily by ________ theorists.