Exam 11: Personality

Freud used dream analysis and hypnosis to gain access to the _____ mind.

Dr. Cavanaugh creates an assessment to examine the relationship between the trait of hardiness and senior citizens' compliance with medication regimes. A reviewer finds, however, that scores on the even-numbered items of the hardiness measure do not correlate with scores on the odd-numbered items. Dr. Cavanaugh's hardiness assessment may lack _____ reliability.

As an early social learning theorist, _____ represented a bridge between the behavioral and social-cognitive perspectives on personality.

Both the _____ and the _____ theories of personality have been criticized for their narrow focus.

"Your perspective is too limited. Not everything is immediately observable. In addition, people can think about what is happening, both internally and in the world at large." These words might be spoken by _____ to _____.

As compared to the other perspectives on personality, the _____ perspective is less interested in explaining than in describing personality.

Which psychologist is MOST likely to have said, "Penis envy is really power envy"?

In Freud's model of the mind, the _____ acts as a mediator or negotiator.

In Freud's theory, developmental concerns that persist into adulthood and continue to influence personality are called:

According to Carl Rogers, one's _____ contains the set of beliefs an individual holds about what she is like as a person.

An adult who smokes, drinks, and talks excessively may be fixated at the oral stage of psychosexual development.

Humans constantly strive to grow and improve themselves, a motivation Adler termed the striving for:

_____ rejected the behaviorists' argument that psychologists should focus only on observable behavior.

Jung suggested that the questing hero figure prominent in many legends, stories, epic poems, and so forth represents a(n) _____, a symbolic representation of a universal experience.

The anal stage is the first of Freud's stages of psychosexual development.

A graduate student is using a statistical software package to identify the basic patterns underlying the many relationships among a large number of variables. She is performing ______ analysis.

Which aspect of a Facebook profile do viewers weigh most heavily when making inferences about an individual's personality?

Describe trait approaches to personality. Briefly describe Eysenck's trait theory of personality. Identify the Big Five personality dimensions central to contemporary trait approaches. Outline several ways in which the validity of the Big Five theory is supported.

Julian Rotter proposed the concept of locus of control.

______ tests are not always flexible, whereas ______ tests are not always reliable.