Exam 12: Personality

According to Freud, if a child's needs are badly frustrated or are overgratified at one particular psychosexual stage, the child may become ________.

Jason is twenty-five years old and goes against his parents' house rules by smoking cigarettes inside the house; he feels guilty about it but can't break the smoking habit. The guilt he feels for behaving in this incorrect fashion is produced by the ________.

Define humanistic psychology, and describe two concepts that can be attributed to Rogers, and two that can be attributed to Maslow. State which humanist you believe described personality most accurately, and explain your choice.

The phallic stage of development typically occurs from ________.

Which choice refers to the tendency to see truths about ourselves in general, nonspecific personality statements or predictions?

A person from which type of culture would place value and emphasis on a single person's rights and freedoms, and would prioritize that person over the needs of a larger group?

Describe and provide examples of the four methods of personality assessment.

Which Big Five personality trait was the highest on the list of the Mate Preferences chart for both men and women?

State the social-cognitive perspective on personality, and describe the concepts proposed by the two most influential theorists in this field.

Describe and illustrate Freud's three levels of consciousness and his three components of personality.

Marcus is a shy child who was born to shy parents. When other parents took their toddlers to playgrounds, Marcus and his parents went for walks through the park with just the three of them. When Marcus started school, he struggled being away from his home, so his parents decided that homeschool might be best. As a result, Marcus has become more and more shy and is very much a loner. This is an example of Bandura's theory of ________.

With regard to personality testing, ________ refers to the ability of a test to measure the trait it says it will, rather than some other trait; whereas ________ refers to the extent to which the same person receives the same score on a personality test when it is administered more than once.

Studies on extroversion and neuroticism show that these traits correlate ________ with ________ parents than with ________ parents.

Bob is doing very poorly in his history course, but keeps telling himself that he'll just "do better on the next exam." When the scores continue to drop, he convinces himself that he will "ace the final exam," and that there is no way his professor would ever give him an F in the class. Bob using the defense mechanism of ________ to avoid the reality of his poor class performance?

Raymond Cattell reduced the list of over 4500 personality traits to 16 source traits using a method called ________.

According to which of the following do personal characteristics, behaviors, and environment all work as interacting determinants of one another?

Describe at least two concepts that can be attributed to each of the following Neo-Freudians: Adler, Jung, and Horney. State which Neo-Freudian you believe described personality most accurately, and explain your choice.

The MMPI-2 includes how many scales that help guard against dishonest or inaccurate responding on the part of the test taker?

Which of the following is a characteristic of self-actualization?

The part of the personality that operates based on the rules of moral behavior is the ________.