Exam 12: Personality

Very broadly, nature is to nurture as the ____ is to the _____ in Freud's theory of personality.

The notion that behavior is motivated by unconscious inner forces and conflicts is at the core of the _______ approach to personality.

Garner is imaginative, curious, and interested in new ideas. Brandy is conventional, down-to-earth, and has limited interests. It is likely that Garner scores high while Brandy scores low on the Big Five personality dimension of ________.

Your text reports that the correlation between identical twins' scores on aggression measures is about .43; the correlation between fraternal twins' scores on aggression measures is around .14. Most immediately, these coefficients indicate:

According to Freud, the developing child must negotiate the Oedipal conflict during which stage of psychosexual development

Which of the following sequences indicates the order of the first three stages in Freud's theory of psychosexual development, from first to last

The predictions of Freudian theory are

Inkblot is to picture as ________ is to _______.

According to your text, how does neo-Freudian thought differ from Freud's original theory

In order to protect herself from unconscious anxiety, Susie convinces herself that she hates action movies whereas, on an unconscious level, she actually loves them. This illustrates the defense mechanism known as:

Why do dreams, fantasies, and slips of the tongue offer important data in the view of psychoanalytic psychologists

Which of the psychodynamic psychologists contributed the phrases penis envy and inferiority complex, respectively, to psychology

Which of the following describes the individual difference measure of self-efficacy

Humanistic psychologists suggest that people are consciously motivated to reach their maximum potential; that is, people have a fundamental drive toward self-:

Barry is looking at an abstract collage of colors, lines, and shapes, trying to come up with an interpretation of it. Barry may be taking some sort of _________ personality test.

Davina is a "neat freak" who can't stand to be late for anything. Also, other people have to do things "just right" for her to be happy. A psychodynamic theorist might suggest that Davina is fixated at the ________ stage of development.

Authoritarianism is one of the "Big Five" personality dimensions.

Which alternative correctly defines the ego

Which of the following correctly describes Freud's anal stage of psychosexual development

Which of the following sequences CORRECTLY arranges Allport's trait categories from the MOST SPECIFIC to the BROADEST