Exam 10: Personality

Adler felt that the main shaper of personality was the individual's efforts to overcome ________.

Recently, each of the Big Five traits has been shown to have ________ facets.

Objective tests involve open-ended questions designed to tap into unconscious processes.

Henry is very shy and withdrawn. He rarely acts on impulse, feels guilty about any display of desire, and is emotionally restricted. Freud would say Henry's ________ is the dominant part of his personality.

A famous psychologist argues that strivings for superiority and perfection are the most important aspects of personality development. This psychologist's views are most similar to those of ________.

The accuracy and usefulness of projective tests depends largely on ________.

The most widely used objective personality test is the MMPI-2.

When an individual's self-concept is closely matched with his or her inborn capacities, then that person is likely to become what Rogers calls a(n) ________ person.

According to Freud, beginning at about age 3, the dominant source of sensual pleasure is the ________.

Adler suggested that people constantly work to overcome feelings of inferiority.

Each of the following is true of trait theories except ________.

Recent research indicates that the Big Five traits are evident in people in ________.

Gordon Allport found about ________ dictionary entries that refer to traits.

Describe Alfred Adler's personality theory in terms of what Adler felt were the driving forces of personality and how his views changed over time.

The most widely used and extensively researched objective personality test is the ________.

Ivan is stingy, obstinate, overly precise, and excessively orderly. In Freud's view, he is probably fixated in the ________ stage.

Jung's most original concept was that of the collective unconscious.

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

Explain the major tenets of cognitive-social learning theories of personality and summarize how cognitive social-learning theorists conceptualize people's interaction with their environment.

The id's link to reality is called the ________.