Exam 14: Personality

Walter Mischel and Yuichi Shoda define if-then behaviour consistencies as the relatively consistent ways that people respond to particular classes of situations, and they view them as the outward manifestations of personality.

What is self-efficacy? Using the context of improving the self-efficacy of a student, give an example of each of the four factors that can have an impact on self-efficacy judgments.

According to humanistic theory, a child who receives unconditional positive regard from her parents is likely to avoid the problems that are associated with ____________.

Hal doesn't think he has much chance of getting into his top choice for medical school. However, he still very much likes this school and desires to go there. Based on Rotter's concept of expectancy, we would expect Hal not to apply to this school, while Rotter's concept of _____________ suggests that Hal would apply to this school.

The process of identification with significant others, most often parents, causes the creation of _________________.

You are really angry with your boss and would really like to punch him in the nose. But you realize that this may have consequences, so you go home and kick the cat. According to Freud, this reflects the defence mechanism of

Josh is unable to make moral decisions. He cannot tell what is right from what is wrong. According to Freud, there would have been insufficient development of the

According to Carl Rogers, self-consistency refers to the human need

While Sigmund Freud maintained that human behaviour is directed by unconscious forces, Carl Rogers asserted that people's actions are determined by _____________.

Julie was present at a horrible accident. It bothered her a lot and she cannot remember anything about it. According to Freud, this is an act of motivated forgetting called

In psychoanalytic theory, the ego is sometimes called the "executive of personality" because it must formulate compromises between the id's wants, the environment's demands, and the superego's constraints.

Your midterm marks are now posted. You think you have done very well. You scan the list and see your mark to be 30%. You scan the list for three more times to check and your mark is still at 30%. Which defense mechanism are you exhibiting in this scenario?

Which of the following is a key component of the cognitive-affective personality system (CAPS)?

Pablo enjoys work that involves finding a single right answer. He rarely sees any need to test an approach that works and is uncomfortable when asked to do something that is not already in his intellectual or emotional repertoires. He prefers simplicity in his everyday life and doesn't understand why anyone would invest large amounts of time or money in art or music, because to him neither serves any true purpose. Based on this information and relying on the Five Factor model, we can say that Pablo would be most likely to score low in

Freud divided personality into three separate but interacting structures called

Eysenck's called his trait dealing with creativity, nonconformity, and impulsivity as _________.

The results from the Albert Bandura and Daniel Cervone (1983) study showing the importance of both setting goals and of receiving performance feedback are most relevant to which goal-setting guideline? Set ________.

Josh believes that he is socially outgoing. He just met several new people, some of whom have told him that he seems to be a very social person (congruent feedback), while a few others have made comments to Josh that he seems to be quite shy and reserved (incongruent feedback). According to the construct of self-verification, how will Josh recall this feedback?

The concept of reciprocal determinism argues that the person, the person's behaviour, and the environment can each influence one another.

The revised MMPI-2 has three validity scales which are used to detect all of the following tendencies EXCEPT to ________.