Exam 12: Personality

According to Dan McAdams, the stories we tell ourselves about ourselves reflect the way we understand the events of our lives and our place in the world, giving meaning to our unique identities. These stories are called

The _____________________ presents a test-taker with a standard set of 10 cards, each containing symmetrical inkblots, 5 in color and 5 in black and white.

The MMPI is used in a wide variety of psychiatric and nonpsychiatric settings to objectively assess areas of personality vulnerability to psychological problems.

In Judith Harris's account of peer influence on personality, the ______________ prompts the developing child to compete with others in order to establish his or her unique identity and contributions.

The Big Five is currently the most widely accepted trait model of personality.

Your score on any valid and well-designed personality test delivers a personality profile that is always consistent with your behavior across situations.

Traits are more likely to predict behavior if behavior is examined on a number of occasions, not just one, and the results aggregated, or averaged.

This is Freud's term for his notion that children of the phallic stage experience a powerful desire to erotically possess the opposite-sex parent and "do away" with the same-sex parent, who is a rival of sorts.

According to the ____________________ model developed by Walter Mischel and Yuichi Shoda, each person possesses stable patterns of interaction between traits and situations.

Though this term has its foundations in erotic and sexual desire, it actually refers to the level of energy and drive within a person.

Critics charge that the standards for scoring the Rorschach may cause psychologically normal people to appear to have serious psychological disturbances, thus the tests are not

In personality assessment, a projective test is one that utilizes

Tests such as the MMPI-2 are referred to as _______________ because they are constructed empirically and scored by computer, so subjectivity does not enter into their interpretation.

The "Big Five" personality dimensions that make up the five-factor model can be expressed in this acronym.

Statements that describe Americans as rude, arrogant, and self-centered, or that describe Canadians as friendly and hospitable, are called _____________________ stereotypes.

According to the humanists, a child who does not receive unconditional positive regard from caregivers may ultimately be motivated by the desire to meet certain behavioral standards of approval, called

The id is driven primarily by the impulse to seek pleasure and avoid pain, known as the

In psychoanalysis, the ego is bombarded by pleasure-driven impulses from the _________, and morality-driven restraints from the ______________.

This perspective on personality, pioneered by Gordon Allport, was the starting point for the first attempts to build truly empirical, research-based theories of personality.

In Judith Harris's account of peer influence on personality, the status system prompts the developing child to compete with others in order to establish his or her unique identity and contributions.