Exam 12: Personality

"I'm going to take this candy because I want it NOW!" said the ________. "But, stealing is wrong," said the ________. "Let's ask mom if she'll advance our allowance so we can buy it today," said the ________.

Holland's personality job-fit theory predicts that ________.

Ailsa has been given a card with an abstract shape on it and is asked "What might this be?" It is most likely that Ailsa is taking which personality test?

In order to remember the traits of the five-factor model, you might use the acronym ________.

Another term for self-efficacy is self-________.

Which approach to personality has been criticized for being narrow, making naïve assumptions, poor testability, and inadequate evidence?

The term that Bandura coined that describes a person's sense of their own ability to be successful at a given task is self-________.

According to Rogers's concept of unconditional positive regard, ________.

Defense mechanisms are unconscious strategies employed by the ego to avoid conflict and reduce ________.

The notion that one's action are affected by both the situation in which the action occurs as well as internal personality traits is called ________.

As a young man is having a romantic encounter with his new girlfriend, he addresses his new girlfriend by his old girlfriend's name. This is an example of a ________.

Which of the following might be used by a psychologist to assess someone's personality?

Twin studies of certain personality traits show a heritability of ________.

Marianne is very outgoing. She likes to interact with people, and even strangers quickly describe her as the "life of the party." In the Five Factor model, Marianne would probably be described as being high on a measure of ________.

According to Freud, during the phallic stage of psychosexual development, boys develop ________.