Exam 15: Personality in Perspective

____ recognized the role of consciousness, and he proposed that people have cognitive needs to know and to understand.

The theorist who believed that culture affected personality and spoke of female inferiority was

There is widespread agreement that ____ exists and is an influence on personality.

Considerable research suggests that ____ from parents can promote a child's autonomy, competence, and self-efficacy.

Recent research confirms that the ____ is a powerful force, perhaps even more pervasive in its influences than Freud suggested.

An accumulation of learned responses is what Skinner used to describe

Almost every personality theory we have described deals explicitly or implicitly with

In studies of children reared mainly by surrogate mothers and fathers, it was important for the children to ____ with their parents or caregivers.

Define the conscious factor and the unconscious factor. Now give a real-life example of each one.

People who lost their jobs show ____ in neuroticism and ____ in conscientiousness and extraversion.

Jung, Maslow, Erikson, and Cattell noted middle age as a time of major personality change.

Some studies in the 1990s showed that personality is more influenced by _____ than by ______.

Whether our genetic predispositions are ever realized depends on social and environmental conditions, particularly those of childhood.

Personality can be inherited, but ____ and ____ conditions help make up our personality.

The theorist known for the ideas of self-efficacy, observational learning, and vicarious reinforcement is

Allport and Cattell believed in the influence of larger historical forces and the type of society a people constructs.

Researchers who subscribe to the primacy of genetic factors in personality tend to _________the parental effect.

Studies confirm that personality ____ as we grow into adolescence and early adulthood.

Consider a theorist who used the environmental factor and explain how this person's theory could affect a person in (A) childhood, (B) adolescence, and (C) adulthood.

Allport noted that ____ supplies the basic material of personality, while ____ shape(s) the person as a finished product.