Exam 14: Personality

Which of the following approaches to personality is best able to resolve the apparent contradiction between the assumption that people's personalities are stable and research results indicating that people's behaviours are not particularly consistent over time or across situations? The ____________ perspective.

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

A psychoanalytic theorist who wants to criticize humanistic theories of personality but does NOT want to be critical of his own perspective would most likely point out which of the following? Humanistic theories ________.

Elaine is participating in a study. Periodically she receives a text from the research team. She responds to the text by recording exactly what she was doing when she got the text. Elaine is giving a(n)

Research evidence exists

Which of the following is one of the six principles for effective goal setting?

Eysenck's theory of personality included three dimensions: Introversion-Extraversion, Stability-Instability and Psychoticism-Self-Control.

A student is very happy with life: The student is a persistent high achiever, is less susceptible to social pressure, and has very fewer interpersonal problems. The student has a ___________.

Octavia enjoys being around others and is well-known for her social grace. She is warm and engaging with everyone she meets, regardless of whether the setting is the classroom, her workplace, a restaurant, or her own home. Since Octavia has a fairly stable way of relating to other people, we can say that her behaviour is probably

How does research evidence bear on the assumption of stability across time and across situations?

You really want to buy a new iPhone. But you can't seem to save enough money to get it. So you end up buying a cheaper flip phone and decide that the iPhone was not really that great and highly overpriced. According to Freud, this reflects the defence mechanism of

When James became the class bully at the age of twelve, his friends just shook their heads. After all, his father has a violent temper and is very aggressive so what did they expect? Which perspective on personality might categorize a person this way?

What is one common criticism of psychoanalytical theory?

Jung believed humans possess a _______ unconscious based on their life experiences and also a __________ unconscious that consists of memories accumulated throughout the entire history of the human race.

What cultural and gender differences have been found in self-concept research?

According to the cognitive-affective personality system (CAPS) model, a consistent way of responding to similar situations is called a(n) ____________.

Carl Rogers believed that conditions of worth can produce serious negative consequences for people by creating significant _____________ between self-perceptions and experience.

If you wanted to learn about someone's personality, one simple thing you could do would be to talk to him or her for a while and ask a few questions. Your method of learning about this person's personality is most similar to which type of personality assessment?

The distinctive and relatively consistent ways of thinking, feeling, and behaving that characterize a person's responses to various life situations defines the concept of ________________.

In the cognitive-affective personality system (CAPS), concepts such as self-efficacy and locus of control would most likely be placed in which of the following categories?