Exam 10: Personality

Ben goes to a psychologist because he is continually anxious. When he gets to the psychologist's office, he realizes that while he wants to end his anxiety, he feels as though it is tied to his life story, and will take too long to explain. The psychologist senses Ben's reluctance and decides to administer an objective test to reveal Ben's attitudes and feelings. Which of the following would the doctor likely administer?

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

Jung believed the personal unconscious included our repressed thoughts, forgotten experiences, and undeveloped ideas.

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

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

According to Freud, to function effectively, the ________.

Interviews in which the order and content of the questions are fixed, and the interviewer adheres to a set format are known as ________ interviews.

Contemporary trait theorists have demonstrated that personality traits can be reduced to ________ basic dimensions.

Freud believed that wish fulfillment was ________.

Freud's theory of personality is significant for drawing attention to the role of unconscious influences on personality.

According to humanistic theorists, when people lose sight of ________, they become constricted, rigid, defensive, and feel threatened and anxious.

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

Gordon Allport and H.S. Odbert found about ________ dictionary entries that refer to traits.

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

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

Henry is impulsive and emotional. His behavior is illogical, and he feels little guilt for what he does. Freud would say Henry's ________ is the dominant part of his personality.

Harry often sees shapes of objects in his tea leaves after he finishes his morning cup, and tells his wife stories about the images he sees. In psychological terms, what Harry is doing is most similar to ________.

The best known and most influential psychodynamic theorist is ________.

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

Compare and contrast the strengths and weaknesses of the various measures of personality measurement: the interview, observation, and objective and projective tests.