Exam 11: Personality

Adler was the first to emphasize the potential importance of _____ on personality.

Michael is well known throughout his middle school for being a bright student who frequently disrupts class by answering a teacher's question with a somewhat appropriate wise crack. He behaves much the same when at baseball practice and Boy Scout meetings. His tendency to be a "class clown" in many situations relates to the _____ aspect of personality.

Which of the following personality theorists stated, "It is as if Freud supplied to us the sick half of psychology and we must now fill it out with the healthy half"?

Personality tests can be divided into two broad categories, _____ inventories that ask individuals to answer a series of questions about their characteristic behavior and _____ tests in which participants respond to vague, ambiguous stimuli in ways that may reveal the subjects' needs, feelings, and personality traits.

Janine has extremely strong moral standards. However, whenever she fails to live up to the high standards she sets for herself, she becomes overwhelmed by feelings of guilt. Freud would MOST likely suggest that Janine's personality is dominated by her _____.

The MOST optimistic view of human nature is found in the _____ approach.

According to Hans Eysenck, personality is determined largely by a person's _____.

Which of the following is one of the assumptions of the psychodynamic theories of personality that has NOT obtained considerable acceptance? ​

The component of personality that operates according to the reality principle is the ​

Which of the following of Freud's psychosexual stages did he see as society's first systematic effort to regulate a child's impulses?

According to Rogers, children who experience _____ love or affection tend to develop an incongruent self-concept as a result of blocking from their self-concept those experiences that did not receive parental affection.

Modern personality research tends to focus on specific traits. Psychologists have moved away from attempting to develop "grand theories" of personality such as those of the psychodynamic and humanistic theorists. Why do you think this has occurred? Do you think the trend toward "mini-theories" that focus on specific personality traits is the best way to advance our understanding of personality?

According to Hans Eysenck, personality is largely ​

Humanistic personality theories focus on ​

According to Rogers, parents who give their children affection both when the children meet and also when they fail to meet expectations provide their children with _____ love or affection.

Freud ascribed great importance to sexual and aggressive impulses, mainly because they ​

Both Carl Jung and Alfred Adler were especially critical of Freud's emphasis on ​

Beatrix is planning a research study for her doctoral dissertation. As part of the study, she wants to measure normal aspects of personality in each of the participants, using a measure that is objective and precise. The BEST measure for Beatrix to use would be the ​

Five-year-old Samuel often tells his older sister, "I can't wait to grow up, so I can marry mommy." Samuel is MOST likely in the stage of personality development that Freud referred to as the _____ stage.

Which of the following of Freud's personality components is suggested to engage in secondary process thinking?