Exam 10: Personality

For both Bandura and Rotter, a person's expectancies become a critical part of his or her ________.

According to Freud, the stage of psychosexual development in which the child's erotic feelings center on the bowels and the process of elimination is the ________ stage.

Harry goes to a psychologist because he is continually depressed. When he gets to the psychologist's office, he realizes that while he wants to end his depression, it will take him far too long to tell the doctor his life story. The psychologist senses Harry's reluctance and decides to administer an objective test to reveal Harry's attitudes and feelings. Which of the following would the doctor administer?

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

A child is completely dependent on other people to satisfy its needs during the ________ stage.

In psychodynamic theory, the ego is believed to operate according to the ________ principle.

At puberty, Freud believed we enter the latency period.

Each of the following is an objective test except the ________.

Adler felt that some people become so fixated on their feelings of inadequacy that they develop ________.

The best known and most influential psychodynamic theorist is ________.

Jung's concept of the "persona" is most similar to our ________.

Adler's ideas still form the basis of psychoanalysis.

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

Adler's emphasis on people's positive social strivings has caused him to be labeled by many psychologists as the "father" of ________ psychology.

Describe Rogers's 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.

Erikson stresses the quality of ________ in personality development.

The id's link to reality is the superego.

For Horney, anxiety is a stronger motivating force than sexual drive.

Testing personality is much like testing intelligence, in that in both cases we are trying to measure something that is ________.

Summarize the strengths and criticisms of trait theories of personality.