Exam 12: Personality

These are mechanisms used by the ego to keep threatening or anxiety-provoking material from reaching awareness.

According to this theory, self-esteem acts as a psychological buffer against the pervasive general anxiety all human beings feel when faced with the knowledge of their own inevitable death.

In Eysenck's model, introversion-extraversion means the degree to which a person is reserved, quiet, and thoughtful, versus assertive, outgoing, and sociable.

Beyond trait scores, Walter Mischel would say you must also understand each person's situation-behavior profile to understand personality.

The humanists believed that people face problems in a generally rational manner, and try to make good decisions that will benefit themselves and others.

During this psychosexual stage, the child's sexual interests supposedly lessen in urgency as same-sex friendships assume a position of greater importance in the child's life.

In Freud's view, if the psychosexual stages are not navigated properly, this crippling emotional illness and distortion of personality may result.

This fixation may result from psychological trauma surrounding breastfeeding.

Personality is most commonly described in terms of a set of traits. Describe what traits are, and compare the two-factor theory with the Big Five model of personality.

The term grand theory has been applied to a few old theories of personality, like Sigmund Freud's theory, because those theories

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

The ego is driven by preservation of safety and functioning of the individual, termed the

There is no evidence that high self-esteem improves school performance, although there is some evidence that doing well in school might increase self-esteem.

Behaviorist theories of personality were limited by the assertion that all behavior and personality development could be reduced to

Many scientists complain that Freud's theories lack specific conditions, especially about unconscious desires, under which the theories can be potentially disproved. Thus, many of Freud's hypotheses cannot be

This is the classic example of a projective test, because it uses ambiguous inkblots for the Subject to interpret.

If a researcher examines rank order stability in personality traits, he or she compares