Exam 14: Personality

Susan's therapist quickly recognizes that Susan keeps falling in love with men with personality traits just like her father. The trouble is, none of these men seem to be good enough for her. Susan's therapist is looking at personality traits through a ______ perspective.

Danny is upset at work. His boss gave him a lot of work to do in a short time period. He would really like to punch his boss in the nose, but he'd get in trouble and be fired. So after work he goes to gym and works out. According to Freud, this reflects the defence mechanism of

You are developing a personality test for friendliness. As you design the test, you choose items that were answered differently by friendly people in previous research. You are using the

Oddly, most people rate themselves as better then average on just about anything you ask them about. According to Rogers' humanistic model, this reflects

Why is the ego sometimes referred to as the "executive of the personality"?

Orlando's grandmother asks about the day he brought his new puppy home. Though Orlando was not thinking about that day when Grandmother asked, he is immediately able to recall all the details. The memory of bringing his puppy home has moved from his ___________ to his _______________ memory.

A clinical psychologist developed their own personality scale for "fame desirability" using their own ideas about what a person high or low on this trait would be like. The methodology would be referred to as a(n) ______________ approach.

According to Carl Rogers and other humanistic theorists, the active process of realizing our total human potential is referred to as

At random times during the day, your cell phone beeps and you are asked to record your thoughts and feelings at that moment. This information is then sent to a personality psychologist. This psychologist is using

When the fox cannot get the grapes, he decides that they were probably sour anyway. This would be an example of ________.

You notice two children shopping with their mother. One of the children is a girl who is particularly interested in the hockey equipment, while the other is a boy who is most interested in a display of ponies. The adult with them looks stressed out and is trying to tell them which toys they should each want, as well as which toys aren't intended for them. What concept does this example demonstrate?

The type of interview that contains a set of specific questions that are asked of every participant and are often used to collect research data or make psychiatric diagnoses is called _____________________.

The humanistic notion that people are motivated to preserve their self-concept by maintaining self-consistency and congruence is known as self-enhancement.

The basic assumption underlying projective tests is that if you present someone with a stimulus, the interpretation for this stimulus will come from within and thus presumably represent or reflect the person's inner needs and feelings. It is necessary that the stimulus is _____________.

Let's say that you are a psychiatrist examining a young child. You determine that he has become fixated at the Phallic stage. According to Freud, he has not resolved

Researchers using behavioural assessments use elaborate coding systems that are designed to categorize and classify relevant behaviours.

Which of the following was mentioned as one of the three factors that make it difficult to accurately predict behaviours from personality traits?

The ego functions primarily at the conscious level of mind and operates according to the ____________.

The basic assumption underlying the use of "projective" tests in psychological assessment is that

"Most children will deceive in certain situations and not in others." According to Mischel, this is because