Exam 14: Psychobiography and Personology

If we interpret Sylvia Plath's suicide in light of the diathesis-stress theory of depression, the diathesis would be __________________________ and the stress would be ___________________________

The psychobiographical analyses of Salvador Dali, Sylvia Plath, Anne Sexton, and Ozzie Osbourne demonstrate that:

Personal structure analysis involves:

According to the __________________approach, peoples' lives are structured and experienced in a "storylike manner."

A key contributing event to Salvador Dali's great need to be original is:

Which of the following is given as an explanation of Anne Sexton's inappropriate drinking behaviour?

The psychobiography of Leonardo da Vinci was regarded as the most-well known of the early pyschobiographies. Who was the author?

In his relationship with his wife Gala, Salvador Dali:

Identify three methodological issues or limitations of case study analyses.

__________________ made a substantial contribution to psychobiography by drawing attention to the importance of cultural forces in personal identity.

The goal of exemplification is to:

Explain Salvador Dali's personality from an Adlerian or operant conditioning perspective.

Glad conducted a psychobiographical analysis of Hitler, Stalin, and Mao Zedong. In her book she reported on the similarities and differences of these figures, and compared them with other tyrants who had less political influence. Glad used a _________________________ approach.

An analysis of a person's psychological features at a particular point in history and how the era influenced the individual is called a ____________________

Which of the following statements is not true of pyschobiographies?

___________________________ can be measured by consistency criterion.

Erikson's triple bookkeeping approach evaluates a person on all levels except:

Discuss Erikson's contributions to psychobiography.

Allport's idea that case studies inspire new theories is an example of the _____________ function of pyschobiographies.

In ___________________________ a statistical procedure is applied to a single unit or person, and the unit is repeatedly measured at equal time intervals.