Exam 11: Personality

According to the five-factor model of personality, a person who is cold, indifferent, self-centered, or spiteful would score high on the dimension of neuroticism.

The trait approach is currently the dominant method for studying personality.

Margarita's traits have been assessed using the 16 PF. The graph of her scores on this measure is called a(n) __________.

Roberto is confident, proud, and self-respecting. He is competent and effective in his job and is loved and admired by his family and friends. Roberto

Raymond Cattell used his Sixteen Personality Factor Questionnaire (16 PF) to identify a person's __________ traits.

A psychodynamic theorist would explain anxiety or depression in terms of hidden, or unconscious, thoughts, needs, and emotions.

Many of the seemingly "astounding" coincidences shared by reunited twins may occur because twins tend to notice similarities and ignore the differences, which illustrates the tendency called the __________.

Freud typified personality as a struggle in which one of the personality structures is caught in the middle of the conflict between the other two structures. This part caught in the middle is the

The dimensions of the "Big Five" factor model of personality are

According to Freud, the period of full psychosexual development, marked by the attainment of mature adult sexuality is called the __________ stage.

In personality development, trait and psychoanalytic theories stress the importance of

When college students were asked to describe someone they knew well, they mentioned an average of 12 central traits.

Describe your personality using the five dimensions of the Big Five Personality Model.

In Freudian theory, the force that energizes the personality and underlies our efforts to survive, our sexual desires, and our pleasure-seeking is known as the __________.

An individual's unique and enduring patterns of thinking, feeling, and behaving are called

Tony would be described as a shy, reserved person who focuses most of the time on his own thoughts rather than the outside world. Tony would be referred to as a(n) __________.

If a person taking the MMPI-2 displays a pattern of responses that indicates the presence of obsessive worries, irrational fears, and compulsive actions, the person would have a high score on which clinical subscale?

Madie is interviewing several job candidates and will use a pre-planned set of questions that she will ask all the job candidates. In choosing a new employee, Madie is using a(n) __________ interview.

According to social learning theory, a child's feeling of being emotionally connected to another person is referred to as __________.

According to Freud, the ego is the part of the personality that is made up of innate biological instincts and urges, and is self-serving, impulsive, and irrational.