Exam 11: Theories of Personality

According to Rogers, people brought up with conditional positive regard _______.

Freud developed his theory of personality on the basis of:

According to Freud, the stage in which children develop a marked attachment to the parent of the opposite sex and become jealous of the same-sex parent is the ______.

Which Type A personality characteristic is the key trait that is linked to heart disease?

Sigmund Freud's theory came at a time in history when the predominant attitude toward sex was _____________.

Which of the following is NOT one of the four basic types of tools used by psychologists to measure personality?

According to Carl Rogers, anxiety and neurotic behaviors occur when _______.

What did Carl Rogers mean by unconditional positive regard?

When one thinks of "value judgment" in relation to moral or ethical behavior, one is thinking about ____________.

Your teacher organizes a debate on Freudian theory. You are assigned to be on the anti-Freud side and, therefore, must point out problems in the theory. Which of the following will be at the top of your list?

According to Rogers, people brought up with unconditional positive regard ______.

Travis is a participant in the X-Games every year, which features events that are high flying and exhilarating to watch or participate in, but also very dangerous to the competitors. Because Travis is willing to take chances with his health to get the adrenaline rush from these sorts of events, Cost and McCrae would argue that he ranks high on which of the five factors?

Which theories are less concerned with the explanation of personality development and changing personality than they are with describing personality and predicting behavior based on that description?

Freud's theories about how early childhood experiences impact later life personality came from his direct observation of children in his clinical practice.

According to the work of ________ and colleagues, optimistic thinking is a good thing!

There were three friends. Harry was rational, logical, and cunning. Hermione was rule-oriented, moral, and always ethical. Ron was pleasure seeking, found it hard to delay gratification, and usually just did what he wanted. According to Freud, Hermione was mostly ___________.

Picasso's paintings often contained exaggerated sexual symbolism. This way of expressing a basic impulse in a socially praiseworthy fashion illustrates the use of _______.

Sigmund Freud proposed that his patients' disorders resulted most often from psychological conflicts related to ______________.

As part of the initial screening for possible employment, a nuclear power company administers a psychological test that yields scores on tendencies toward depression and schizophrenia. What is the name of this psychological test?

For Freud, the only personality structure present at birth is the ______.