Exam 14: Personality

Which of the following accurately describes how factor analysis is used to identify personality traits?

Which of the following statements is most accurate regarding the utility of personality traits to predict specific behaviours?

Strengths of which of the following approaches to personality are that it has advanced our understanding of how person and situation variables interact to produce behaviour, it is relatively easy to operationalize and measure its constructs, and it has a strong scientific base?

The superego's "shoulds" in Freud's psychoanalytic theory are most similar to __________________ in Roger's humanistic theory.

Contrast the rational and empirical approaches to personality test development. Give an example of a test developed by each approach.

A teen boy is nervous about asking a teen girl for a dance. On their lunch, the boy starts talking about the mating rituals of tribes in Africa. The boy is exhibiting which type of defense mechanism?

George is typically quiet and shy. But at lunch one day, he gets angry and yells at everyone at the table. His friends say, "Wow that's not like George". But to Walter Mischel's If...Then theory, this is just

According to Eysenck's theory, Tara, who is very introverted has a pattern of brain activity that can be described as

You think you might have some psychological issues so you go see a humanistic psychologist. In her notes from the first session, she records that in fact, you do not have any problems at all. She would describe you as

In George Kelly's fixed-role therapy, patients:

Kelly is working with a team of researchers studying aggressiveness of children on the playground. They have developed a number of operational definitions of behaviours that they may see on the playground. Then the determine the interrater-reliability of scoring these behaviours. Kelly's team is doing a(n)

Studies have found that individuals often seek relationships with others who confirm their positive or negative views of themselves, so much so that when someone with a negative self-view marries a person who views them favourably, the person with the negative self-view will often withdraw from the marriage. This phenomenon is most consistent with the concept of

If you were optimistic at age 20, we would expect you to be ___________ at age 60.

When treating people with conversion hysteria, Freud noticed that people with this disorder often appeared to improve when

Reports of what type(s) of information can be gathered using the remote behaviour sampling method of assessment?

Neoanalytic theorists such as Alfred Adler and Carl Jung departed from traditional psychoanalytic theory in that they

Define self-verification and self-enhancement. What research evidence is there to support these processes?

Which is the second stage of psychosexual development?

Alfred Adler would be most likely to endorse which of the following explanations for human behaviour? People are primarily motivated by ________.

Fozzie and Waldorf have been friends for a long time. While they've always had some things in common, there is also lots that is different about them. One of those differences is how sociable they tend to be. Fozzie is always looking for things to do with other people, whereas Waldorf tends to prefer spending more time by himself. Fozzie would be considered high on extraversion. According to Eysenck, what driving factor could explain his extraversion?