Exam 10: Personality

Adler felt that a driving force in shaping personality was overcoming feelings of ________.

According to your text, personality is each of the following except ________.

To assess personality, behaviorists prefer ________.

Summarize the strengths and criticisms of psychodynamic theories of personality.

According to Freud, to function effectively, the ________.

Which of the following has key concepts that can be most easily defined and scientifically studied?

Ralph is a private person. He keeps other people at a distance by putting on a public "face" that is nearly the opposite of his inner, true self. Jung called this public "face" worn by Ralph the ________.

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

Katie sees beyond obvious solutions and facts to consider future possibilities. According to Jung, she is a(n) ________ person.

Katie is rational and logical, and makes decisions based on facts. According to Jung, she is a(n) ________ person.

Imaging yourself responding in a snarky manner to a bully who has been tormenting you is an example of ________.

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.

Cattell reduced the number of personality traits proposed by Allport and Odbert. He concluded that ________ dimensions accounted for the complexity of human personality.

For Freud, the energy from the sexual instinct is called libido.

In assessing personality, we are most interested in a person's ________ behavior.

The proper chronological order of Freud's psychosexual stages is ________.

One of the most prominent humanistic psychologists was ________.

Freud believed that psychic energy came from ________.

The Sixteen Personality Factor Questionnaire was developed by ________.

Psychodynamic theorists believe that objective tests are of little use because ________.