Exam 11: Personality, Theory and Assessment

Which of the following concepts does Skinner find useful in explaining behaviour?

In some tests of personality, people are exposed to ambiguous stimuli and asked to report what they see. The type of personality test being described is

An important theme in Horney's work is

What was the term Raymond Cattell used for the observable qualities that you would use to describe a friend?

Boris has just been told by his fiancée that the engagement is off. He insists that she is playing a joke and does not really mean it. But she does. Boris is probably using

What are the main types of traits in Allport's theory, and how are they different from each other?

What are some of the defence mechanisms? Describe the working of two. Give examples.

What defence mechanism do most of us use to justify our failures and to explain behaviour of which we are ashamed?

Carl Jung believed that the contents of the collective unconscious were transmitted to each individual and contained the entirety of human experience throughout evolution.

Patrice did not heed the warning to evacuate her home during Hurricane Mitch because she believed that her destiny was in the hands of fate. Patrice could be described as

Carl Jung stated that an archetype was a unique pattern of response that separated each individual from all others.

Ego is to ________ as superego is to ________.

After a long-term study of traits, the evidence suggests that

Freud's theory assumes a psychic determinism, because every thought, idea, feeling, action, and behaviour is thought to have a cause.

What is the aim of projective tests, and what are several examples of projective tests?

Ewan owns his own insurance sales company, and prides himself on his concern for his customers. People in community organizations count on him for civic projects because he is reliable and thorough. Based on this information, Ewan would be best described in terms of the five-factor theory as

In the five-factor theory, the dimension that differentiates people who are imaginative, curious, and bold from people who are concrete and practical is called

Dr. Paget is doing an assessment of a client. She is asking a series of questions based on the responses of the person she is interviewing. Which personality assessment technique is she using?

Forgetting a traumatic childhood experience would be an example of

Social-cognitive theorists consider both the environment and personal/cognitive factors to be important in attempts to understand human personality and behaviour.