Exam 13: Theories of Personality

According to Albert Bandura, a person's expectancy about his or her skills and ability to accomplish a goal is known as __________.

According to Freud, material that we are not currently aware of but that can be easily recalled is in the __________ mind.

Studies of the heritability of personality traits have found __________.

__________ refers to the source that a person believes to be exerting control over life's events.

Albert Bandura considers __________ as a person's expectancy of how effective his or her efforts to accomplish a goal will be in any particular circumstance.

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

Picasso's paintings often contained exaggerated sexual symbolism. This way of expressing a basic impulse in a socially praiseworthy fashion illustrates the use of __________.

Tiffany has a desire to eat a steak with a baked potato smothered with butter and sour cream. One component of her personality tells her that, because she is overweight, she should fast instead of eating the meal and direct her efforts to ending world hunger. Another component suggests that it would be better to eat a salad and a bran muffin, then run 2 miles. The fasting suggestion most likely was made by which component of personality?

Jung believed that there were two levels to the unconscious mind, the personal and the __________.

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 __________.

Which of the following statements accurately describes the relationship between temperament and personality?

Which of the following is a projective test?

What major conclusion about personality traits emerged from the Minnesota twin study?

As part of an application for a job, Antwan is asked to complete some psychological tests, including one in which he responds "true" or "false" to items such as "I feel sad most of the time" and "I had a good childhood." What type of psychological test is Antwan taking?

An old motto of the U.S. Army was, "Be all you can be." This concept fits well with Carl Rogers's theory of __________.

There were three friends. Maybe you've heard of them! Harry was rational, logical, and cunning. Hermione was rule-oriented, moral, and always ethical. Ron was pleasure-seeking, found it hard to delay gratification, and usually just did what he wanted. According to Freud, Hermione was mostly __________.

Albert Bandura's notion that people are affected by their environment, but can also influence that environment, is known as __________.

A relatively consistent characteristic that exists across situations is called __________.

According to Freud, the second part of the personality is the ego, which gets its name from the Latin word for __________.

Gia is afraid of failing one of her final exams, primarily because she thinks the professor gives hard exams, so no matter how much studying she does, it won't matter. Cognitive theorists would suggest that Gia has an __________.