Exam 10: Personality

Derrick is an executive with a large financial firm. Any time his investments do poorly, he throws temper tantrums and breaks things. Then he starts barking orders at his secretary. Which personality structure would Freud say is exerting control?

Your first impression of a new professor is

Which of the following statements would be most indicative of a person who has a future-hedonistic time perspective in Zimbardo's time zone model?

Malvina has been invited to go to Las Vegas with some girlfriends for Thanksgiving, but she decides to pass on this trip so that she can host her family for the holiday. "It means a lot to me to have this family ritual every year," she tells her friends. Malvina has a ________ time perspective in Zimbardo's time zone model.

The ________ is the fully unconscious part of a personality.

Cheri went to see a psychologist who showed her several detailed pictures and asked her to explain what was going on in them. The psychologist was using the

A personality that consisted of only the ego and the id would be completely

Jeromy has been having an affair with another woman. One afternoon his wife came home later than usual and Jeromy became angry-accusing his wife of infidelity. Which defense mechanism is behind Jeromy's accusation?

Smith and Dr. Jones are at a lecture given by their mentor. Dr. Smith thinks the talk is horrible, but rather than deal with the fact that he is critical of his mentor's work, he instead accuses Dr. Jones of thinking the talk was terrible. Dr. Smith feels this way due to

Susie's naive belief that all artists are emotionally sensitive is an example of

Physicians in the late 1800s were puzzled by hysteria, a condition in which

Mei is Chinese American. She is very loyal to her family. Her sister lives with her, and she mails money back to China to her father and younger brother. Mei's way of life is typical of someone who comes from a culture that is

After only two hours of sleep, Julie's alarm clock goes off. Her ego would most likely cause her to

In the metaphor "the angel, the devil, and me," the angel is the

Whenever he comes across an older man with a white beard and a large belly, Edmond expects that person to be warm and jolly. When he comes across one such man in a coffee shop one day and the man is surly and rude, Edmond is very surprised. Edmond's expectation about this group of people-older round-bellied men with white beards-demonstrates a(n) ________ personality theory.

It is common for Asia, Africa, the Middle East, and Latin America to focus more on group loyalty and pride and thus emphasize ________ in their societies.

Match up the correct humor with its corresponding temperament:

According to the text, a key aspect of personality is its ________ quality in an individual in different situations.

If you were to describe a friend's personality as being phlegmatic, we could expect the friend to be

An investigation of students' housing preferences would probably show that single rooms are preferred by ________, whereas suites are preferred by ________.