Exam 14: Personality

Dr. Stevens is interested in studying social behaviour among children. To address this issue, he creates an elaborate coding system that can be used to categorize and classify various social behaviours that children display, such as sharing their crayons or trading turns on a swing set. Dr. Stevens' work is best considered as an example of which type of personality assessment?

Which clinical phenomena convinced Freud of the power of the unconscious mind?

Carl Rogers assumed that people have an innate need to receive love, sympathy, and acceptance from others, which he called

Constructs such as the collective unconscious and archetypes are part of

Hans Eysenck theorizes that unstable or neurotic people have nervous systems that

The NEO-PI measure of personality was developed using an approach to personality scale construction called the ______________ approach.

What three factors make it difficult to predict behaviour on the basis of individual personality traits?

In her practice, Dr. Wong uses the principle of reciprocal determinism. Consequently, she would be most concerned with assessing

The psychodynamic perspective on personality was first proposed by ________.

You are having some psychological problems so you go see a humanistic psychologist. In her notes from the first session, she records that you seem to have an issue between your self-concept perception and what you actually do. To Carl Rogers, this would be seen as a problem of

Let's say that you want to learn to play the guitar. According to Bandura's theory of self-efficacy, all of the following should help EXCEPT

Jack believes that if he goes out partying with his friends tonight, it is very likely that he will fail his history midterm tomorrow. Jack's perception about the consequences of his behaviour and the likelihood of these consequences would best be considered an example of Rotter's concept of

Imagine that you are doing research on attitudes towards pseudoscience (ideas that are not supported by the scientific method but are presented as though they were). You hypothesize there are several underlying dimensions that predict attitudes towards pseudoscience. You choose 50 questions that you think will tap into these underlying dimensions. After collecting some data, what procedure would be best suited to analyze it (given your hypothesis)?

You overhear two therapists discussing personality. Therapist A is fairly negative and talks about the need to control unconscious demons. Therapist B is fairly positive and talks about self-actualization. Most likely, Therapist A believes in ____, while Therapist B believes in ______.

The MMPI is a psychological test that was created using what is called the rational approach to test construction.

A central concept in Carl Rogers's theory is our consistent set of perceptions of and beliefs about ourselves and is referred to as _______________.

The importance of a particular personality trait for a person may determine

Some of Freud's most controversial work concerned the stages of psychosexual development. According to Freud, if you failed to solve the Oedipus complex, you could become fixated at the ______stage.

Sigmund Freud argued that instinctual urges and desires continually give rise to ____________. The energy created by this process serves to power the mind and constantly needs to be released in either direct or indirect ways.

You believe that much of your behaviour is the result of your own efforts rather than fate. According to Rotter, we would describe you as having a(n)