Exam 14: Personality

When a person performs a task in order to pursue enhanced self-esteem the result can produce benefits for self-esteem but sometimes it can also produce costs like poor mental health.

If you wanted to give a personality test to people as a screening device for hiring in any industrial or business setting, which of the following would you choose?

Sarah has the belief that she is good in math, but she has just received her first "D" grade in her first-year calculus class. This inconsistency between Sarah's self-belief and her actual experience would most likely generate what Carl Rogers termed

Which of the following presents the proper order of Freud's psychosexual stages of development?

Freud's observations of people with conversion hysteria convinced him of the power of

Carl Jung broke away from Freud's theory to help develop the neoanalytic theory. He believed that in addition to the unconscious, humans also possess

What kinds of personality measures are favoured within the various perspectives?

Two common observations that give rise to the concept of personality are

If you were a psychodynamic psychologist and wanted to assess some of the unconscious factors that might underlie a patient's behaviour you might use

The ego functions primarily at the ___________ level of mind and operates according to the _____________.

A person is very attentive to situational cues and adapts their behaviour to what they think would be most appropriate. The person is high in ___________.

You work in the Human Relations department for a large computer company and your jib is to screen and select appropriate applicants for positions. If you decided to use a personality inventory, most likely you would choose the

You are really cold, but do not have a coat. Suddenly you see a coat lying on a chair and you steal it to keep warm. According to Freud, this behaviour reflects the action of the

Stan does not believe in fate. He thinks it matters what he eats because his father had a heart attack and dies at a young age. Stan does not want this to happen to him so he is very careful. Stan probably has

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 paint a picture of him falling off a building. According to Freud, this reflects the defence mechanism of

According to Sigmund Freud, the superego is also often considered to be "executive of the personality" because of the moral and ethical standards it imposes on the personality.

The personality theory of Hans Eysenck operates at the _____________ level of analysis.

The MMPI-2 is to the NEO-PI as ________.

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

How are behavioural assessments designed, and what three questions are they designed to answer?