Exam 11: Personality

Sigmund Freud's theory of personality was influenced by the Victorian climate of sexual repression, a fact that illustrates which of the following unifying themes of your textbook? ​

Freud's contemporaries were uncomfortable with his theory for all of the following reasons EXCEPT

Recent research suggests that levels of narcissism in college students have _____ over the past few decades.

Which of the following statements regarding hindsight bias is LEAST accurate? ​

Carmen has always done well in her math courses and even though she has never taken a statistics class before, she is confident she will do well in the one she just signed up for next semester. In this example, Carmen shows evidence of having ​

Graham is a 25-year-old male who is extremely anxious about any type of sexual activity. According to Freud's view of personality development, this anxiety may have arisen from ​

Your psychology professor argues that personality is a collection of response tendencies that are tied to various stimulus situations. Which of the following theories of personality is she presenting?

List and describe each of Freud's psychosexual stages of development and their theorized relations to adult personality.

Jordon has taken a job that is extremely dangerous, but that pays him enough so that he is sure he will have enough to eat and he will be able to sleep in a warm place each night. According to Maslow's hierarchy of needs, Jordon is probably primarily motivated by ​

Eysenck's theory of personality is based on all of the following EXCEPT ​

Cross-cultural research suggests that the Big Five personality traits ​

The largely unconscious reactions used to protect a person from unpleasant emotions such as anxiety and guilt are _____ mechanisms.

Behavioral genetics, the evolutionary approach, and Eysenck's theory all approach the study of personality from the _____ perspective.

Briefly describe the two types of personality tests, and give the four principal uses of personality tests.

Research on national character using the Big Five personality traits found that ​

The sickly child who goes on to become a forceful, physically active adult is engaging in what Adler called ​

_____'s followers view personality as a collection of response tendencies that are shaped by learning and tied to specific stimulus situations.

When Braden was nine, he saw one of his classmates fall under the wheels of a school bus as it pulled away from the curb. Today, at the age of 34, he has no memory of the accident. The evening news carried a flashback of the accident that happened 25 years ago, and Braden still didn't remember being at the scene when the accident happened. According to Freud, Braden's memory of the accident seems to be contained in his _____ mind.

Nettle (2006) believes _____ may be adaptive because it fostered coalition building among our ancestors.

Asian and American conceptions of the self differ in that American parents foster a(n) _____ view of self while Asian parents foster a more _____ view of self.