Exam 11: Theories of Personality

According to Freud, personality develops through a series of psychosexual stages. The last stage is called the ___________.

Discuss one major difference between modern psychoanalytic theory and Freud's theory of psychoanalysis.

Define the term "trait-situation interaction" and give two examples of how this might appear in the real world.

Adoption studies focusing on the heritability of traits have _____________.

According to Rogers, a mismatch between the real and ideal self

The job of the _________ is to find practical ways for the _________ to get its pleasure needs met without offending the morality of the ________.

Self-efficacy refers to the ability of a person to give unconditional positive regard.

A great way to remember the Big Five personality traits is with the acronym OAKEN.

Steve is extremely uptight and compulsively neat and orderly. According to Freudian theory, he became fixated at the oral stage of psychosexual development.

Jill is an 8-year-old girl who is having a birthday party. According to Freud, since Jill is in the latency period, whom would you expect to be at her party?

According to Freud, personality develops through a series of psychosexual stages. During infancy, the psychosexual stage is called the _____________.

According to psychoanalytic theory, the _______ is the most basic personality system.

As examples of what might be required as parts of specific projective tests, the _______________ asks clients to look at a picture and tell a story while the ____________ asks clients to report everything they see in an ambiguous figure.

The pattern of characteristic thoughts, feelings, and behaviors that persists over time and situations and distinguishes one person from another is called ____________________.

Which of the following descriptions is likely to fit the quality of self-actualization?

Projective tests make use of ________ stimuli.

According to Freud and his followers, what is the most significant event that occurs during the anal stage of psychosexual development?

Sally has a desire to eat a steak with a baked potato smothered with butter and sour cream. One component of her personality tells her, because she is overweight, that instead of eating the meal, she should fast and direct her efforts to ending world hunger. Another component suggests that it would be better to eat a salad and a bran muffin, then run two miles. The fasting suggestion most likely was made by which component of personality?

Monozygotic twins are __________, while dizygotic twins are __________.

Raymond Cattell originally proposed that there are ________ personality source traits.