Exam 14: Theories of Personality

When childrearing methods are studied, researchers have found that:

Humanist psychology is sometimes called "the third force" in psychology.

Which Freudian concepts do the following events suggest? -A 9-year-old boy who moves to a new city starts having tantrums.

The humanist who described the importance of having peak experiences was Rollo May.

Making a vow of celibacy was difficult for Andrew when he became a priest, but he remained true to his vow. On his 25th anniversary, the congregation held a reception and displayed several pieces of liturgical art that Andrew had created over the past two decades. According to Freud, Andrew's artistic creations might be the result of:

In behavioral-genetic research, what is "shared environment"?

Who among the following is one of the leaders of the humanist movement in psychology?

According to Freud, defense mechanisms are used by the ego to prevent threatening thoughts from entering consciousness.

According to Freud, the psychosexual stage that occurs during the grade school years until puberty is called the:

Eight-year-old Dwayne is pretty shy at home, where he is in the middle of 12 children, but extroverted at school, where he is the leader of his friends. What might be the reason for his personality change?

A problem that cultural psychologists face is how to:

When childrearing methods are studied, researchers have found that:

Latasha sees an iPad sitting on a park bench. According to the psychoanalytic view, if her superego had a voice, it would probably tell her:

_______________ is a fundamental personality dimension that describes the extent to which people are anxious and impulsive.

Cecil is sexually attracted to his middle-school English teacher. He doesn't act on his feelings however, because he realizes that it is unrealistic that his teacher would respond positively to his advances. According to Sigmund Freud, which part of the personality would be responsible for Cecil's restraint?

Estimates of the heritability of personality traits are typically about:

According to Carl Rogers, if a man loves his wife only when she is looking her best, then:

Penny is a folklorist who studies myths and stories from different cultures around the world. She notices that there are some character types that appear frequently, despite the fact that the cultures she studies have had little to no contact with each other. Whose work would Penny likely cite to explain this observation?

_______________ is a fundamental personality dimension that describes the extent to which people are imaginative and questioning, or conforming and predictable.

An 8-year-old boy is hitting classmates and disobeying his teacher. Which of the following explanations of his behavior might come from a Freudian, Jungian, or object-relations analyst? A) The boy is expressing his shadow archetype. B) The boy is expressing the aggressive energy of the id and has not developed enough ego control. C) The boy has had unusual difficulty separating from his mother and is compensating by behaving aggressively.