Exam 15: Personality in Perspective

In child-rearing studies of more than 15,000 children, significant problems with behavior and self-esteem were found when the mothers took a job outside the home.

You are a personality theorist that needs to borrow at least four factors from this text for your personality theory. Which ones would you use? Explain how you would incorporate them into your own theory. Give an example of how your theory would apply in real-life.

____ thought people were primarily rational human beings, governed by a conscious perception of themselves and their world of experience.

In a study of 32, 000 people, ages 21 to 60, conscientiousness and agreeableness ____ through early and middle adulthood.

The theorist who believed that people who are not neurotic will function in a conscious, rational way is

Freud believed our personality was fixed by the time we reached the age of five, while Maslow believed that middle age is the time of major personality change. Choose one of these theorist's approaches and give five reasons why you believe this particular theorist is correct about the developmental factor of personality.

Overwhelming evidence shows the key factor that influences virtually every aspect of behavior is

The therapist who wrote about his or her own lack of parental warmth and affection was

Zuckerman's trait of sensation seeking is primarily influenced by

Freud believed that personality was shaped and fixed by the age of 5 and that it was difficult thereafter to alter any aspect of it.

Social environmental factors were important to the theory of

Cattell believed _____ was the major formative period for personality development.

All of the social and environmental forces that shape personality do so by the techniques of learning.

Studies have found that the unconscious may have both a(n) ____ and an ____ component.

____ refer(s) to conscious feelings, plans, and goals, and how we feel about life.

Personality traits that remain stable and relatively unchanging from about age 30 on are called

No matter how many traits there may be, not even the most ardent proponent of the ___________ approach can argue that personality is completely shaped by ______ factors.

In a study called "Mommy and I are one," ____ presentation of certain stimuli influences cognitive as well as emotional responses.

One method for studying the non-conscious involves ____, in which various stimuli are presented to research participants below their level of conscious awareness.

Adler argued that personality is influenced greatly by ____.