Exam 10: Personality

________ theories spotlight positive growth motives and the realization of potential in shaping personality.

When our id is dominant, ________.

For Freud, the seething cauldron of unconscious urges and desires continuously seeking expression is the ________.

Research by Rogers found that people whose real selves differed considerably from their ideal selves were ________.

According to Freud, thinking and reasoning are controlled by the ________.

Over the long term, optimists tend to be healthier than pessimists.

Describe Carl Jung's personality theory in terms of how Jung viewed development, divided people, the types of unconscious parts of the mind, and the role of archetypes in personality development.

Jung stressed the importance of the sexual instincts.

The id operates according to the ________.

According to Freud, a boy's sexual attachment to his mother and jealousy of his father is called ________.

Describe Freud's structure of personality in terms of the functions of each structural part, the principles guiding the function of each part, and the role of the unconscious in Freud's structural system.

Jung called the mask that covers our inner shell and is the only part of our personality we show to others the ________.

We see consistency in the behavior of others even when there is none.

According to Jung, our repressed thoughts, undeveloped ideas, and forgotten experiences are contained in the ________.

________ theories see personality as the result of unconscious, often sexual, motivations and conflicts.

One of the most prominent humanistic psychologists was ________.

The ego operates according to the ________ principle.

According to Bandura, the expectancy that one's efforts will be successful is called ________.

The TAT is probably the best known of the projective personality tests.

Explain what the term "psychodynamic" means, and identify the five propositions that are central to all psychodynamic theories and have withstood the test of time.