Exam 14: Personality

Success for individuals with low self-esteem generates doubt and anxiety.

The most important determinant of self-efficacy is

Professor Santos has just developed a new personality test to measure aggression. He finds that he gets the same results when he gives the test to students in September and then again in January. This test is

According to Carl Rogers, fully functioning people have no fear of behaving __________ and are mostly free of _________.

Life is made up of goal-directed behaviours. You can be more successful at goal setting if

The pleasure principle is to the reality principle as

According to Jung, memories associated with the collective unconscious were termed ________.

What happens if there is deprivation during a stage of psychosexual development?

You are observing the overall arousal level in an individual's cortex. It seems to be the case that this person is overaroused-the overall level is way above optimum. According to Eysenck's approach to personality traits and biological factors, this person is likely to be

Sigmund Freud would most likely draw an analogy between personality and a(n) ________.

Julian Rotter's concept of self-efficacy is specifically concerned with the amount of control and influence that people feel they have in their lives.

Although projective techniques to assess personality are based on the assumption that a person will interpret ambiguous stimuli based on their personal needs, feelings and perspectives, responses are assessed by comparing them to expected responses.

The ego operates according to the ___________ principle, whereas the id operates according to the ___________ principle.

Bob stands up, raises his hands in the air, and yells at the top of his lungs. If you know that he is doing this at a well-attended baseball game, you don't necessarily think that this information provides you with much information about Bob's personality. However, if you are told that Bob does this while waiting in line for groceries at the super market, this same behaviour has more impact on your estimation of what kind of person Bob is. This second instance of Bob's behaviour provides information that contributes significantly to inferences regarding personality and demonstrates the contribution of _____________.

In Freud's psychoanalytic theory, creative and artistic achievements arise from intrapsychic conflict, while in Roger's humanistic theory, they arise from _____________.

Which attachment style is described by the following? "I find it relatively easy to get close to others and am comfortable depending on them and having them depend on me."

Theorists that focus on the mental representations that people form of themselves and other people as a result of early experiences with caregivers are called _________ theorists.

Raymond Cattell was a pioneering researcher who used factor analysis to support his trait perspective on personality. Cattell suggested that ________ basic traits underlie personality.

Ralph tends to be a rather passive person. Though he is happy and content with himself, he doesn't really believe that his actions make much of a difference in the world. For instance, he doesn't vote because he assumes that most governments are run by a few powerful people and there is very little he can do to change things. Ralph would most accurately be classified as having

A doctor decides to develop a measure of "hallucination proneness" based on whether the samples of schizophrenic and bipolar disorder patients responded differently to certain questions. The doctor would be using the __________ approach to scale development.