Exam 13: Theories of Personality

Unconditional positive regard is MOST important to the theory of __________.

Which of the following is the most criticized and least empirically supported of Freud's ideas?

What is the correct sequence of Freud's psychosexual stages?

An orally fixated person would most likely __________.

What is the main sticking point between the theories of Sigmund Freud and Karen Horney? How are their theories alike? Which do you agree with, if either, and why?

A personality that consisted of only the ego and the id would be completely __________.

Aiden is sick of writing papers and studying for tests, but he knows he needs a college degree if he wants to be successful in his chosen career. So every morning Aiden gives himself a dressing down-in essence, yelling at himself-to make himself get out of bed and go to classes, and every evening he does the same thing to get himself to do his work. According to Freud, which personality structure is in control here?

The __________ is based on the five-factor model, while __________ is based on the work of Raymond Cattell.

Six-year-old Rafaela sees her younger brother approaching with the new toy he received for his birthday. Rafaela suddenly decides she wants the toy, so she pushes her brother to the ground, grabs his toy, and rushes into the next room to play with it. During this situation, the part of Rafaela's personality that is most likely in control is her __________.

Define id, ego, and superego.

For Freud, the only personality structure present at birth is the __________.

What did Carl Jung mean by collective unconscious?

Define the term "trait-situation interaction," and give two examples of how this might appear in the real world.

According to Freud, in the _________ stage, children develop a marked attachment to the parent of the opposite sex and become jealous of the same-sex parent.

You are quite hungry but don't have any money. If you were described as "all id and only id," what would you do?

You are about to undergo delicate brain surgery that requires great skill on the part of the surgeon. As the surgical team wheels you into the operating room, you hope the surgeon has a high level of __________.

In Rogers's viewpoint, what is the striving to fulfill innate capacities and needs called?

What is Freud's term for the executive of the personality that has a realistic plan for obtaining gratification of an individual's desires?

Sigmund Freud's psychosexual stages focus on several parts of the body, identified as __________ zones.

Individual memory is to preconscious as ancestral memory is to __________.