Exam 10: Personality

According to Freud, the standard of perfection by which the superego judges the ego's actions is known as the ________.

Describe Horney's theory of personality and contrast it to Freud's personality theory.

A math professor's daughter is very talented in math and has a high standard for achievement in math. Since she will probably achieve great success in mathematics, Bandura would say that she will have a high sense of ________.

Bandura speculated that a person evaluates a situation according to certain ________.

Ron often sees the shapes of animals in the clouds, and he tells his children stories about what the animals are doing. In psychological terms, what Ron is doing is most similar to ________.

________ theory emphasizes that humans are positively motivated and progress toward higher levels of functioning.

Rogers believed that people are likely to become fully functioning persons if they are brought up with unconditional positive regard.

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

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

According to Freud, most children resolve the Oedipus or Electra conflict by ________.

According to Freud, selfish, clever criminals who doesn't care who they hurt to get what they want, as long as they can safely get away with it and not be caught and punished, is being completely controlled by the ________.

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.

According to Jung, the memories and behavior patterns inherited from past generations are part of the ________.

The Thematic Apperception Test consists of ________ pictures of human figures.

Jamie is unsociable and lacks confidence in dealing with people. She is more concerned with her own private world than the people and events around her. In Jung's view, she is a(n) ________.

Which of the following theorists would be most likely to analyze a client in terms of how she or he behaves in the present, rather than focusing on her or his early childhood?

Each of the following is one of the propositions central to all psychodynamic theories except ________.

The MMPI-2 was originally developed 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.

________ is the study of psychic energy and how it is transformed and expressed in behavior.