Exam 12: Personality

Humanistic psychologists believe that each of us can control our own behavioral destiny and that we can consciously rise above whatever animalistic urges might be coded in our genes.

Outline Freud's conceptualization of the mind.Describe each of the different levels of consciousness he identified.

The humanist ____________________ proposed the view that all people seek acceptance or positive regard from others.

The humanistic approach to personality is sometimes criticized for:

Repression is an ego-defense mechanism that:

The approach to personality that stresses human experience, not human nature, as the primary determinant of personality is:

Reaction formation is an ego-defense mechanism that:

According to Freud, when a boy becomes erotically attracted to his mother, the boy has entered the ____________________.

Carl Rogers argued that each individual:

Which theorist identified sixteen source traits using factor analysis?

According to Freud, the superego operates according to a(n) ____________________ .

Who of the following is a trait theorist?

Hal is strongly attracted to one of the women that he works with.However, his coworker is married.To deal with the anxiety that his feelings have generated, he has unconsciously convinced himself that his coworker is attracted to him.According to Freud, Hal may be unconsciously dealing with the anxiety caused by his feelings toward his coworker by using the ego-defense mechanism of:

According to Gordon Allport, central traits are:

Carl Rogers' term for the expectations or standards that we believe others place on us is:

In the Big Five model, the five dimensions of personality are agreeableness, extraversion, neuroticism, ____________________, and conscientiousness.

Lana has an external locus of control.You would predict that Lana has:

To investigate the role of genetic factors in personality, researchers administered the MMPI to pairs of identical twins who had been reared apart and pairs of nonidentical twins who had been reared together.Imagine that these researchers found that the identical twins reared apart were more similar on a given trait than the nonidentical twins reared together.This would be evidence that:

According to Carl Rogers, the organized set of perceptions that each individual has about his or her own abilities and characteristics is referred to as that individual's:

Gordon Allport described personality traits that are less obvious characteristics of an individual's personality and that do not always appear in his or her behavior as: