Exam 12: Personality

According to Freud, the portion of the personality that motivates people to act in accordance with society's moral customs is:

Carl Rogers' term for a discrepancy between the image we hold of ourselves and the sum of our experience is:

Outline the five dimensions of personality identified in the Big Five model, and describe the main characteristics associated with each dimension.

Armando is an extremely aggressive person who unconsciously would love to hurt other people.He has been able to channel these aggressive feelings into a successful career as a professional football player.According to Freud, Armando may be unconsciously dealing with the potential anxiety related to his feelings of aggression by using the ego-defense mechanism of:

Freud would predict a child who is overfed during the oral stage of development will develop a:

According to Eysenck's view of personality, an individual who would score high in ____________________ would have a high amount of anxiety, worry, and moodiness.

Five-year-old Lance often tells his older sister, "I can't wait to grow up, so I can marry mommy." Lance is most likely in the stage of personality development that Freud referred to as the:

Barbara fails a major exam in her economics class.She tells herself that she wouldn't have performed as poorly as she did if she hadn't gotten stuck in traffic on her way to the exam, which made her late.This makes her feel less upset and anxious about her exam performance.To deal with the anxiety created by her poor performance on the exam, Barbara appears to be using:

Jamie joined a convent and renounced all her worldly goods.She has devoted her life to the "service of God." Jamie's passionate religious commitment would likely be described by Gordon Allport as a:

A person who was talkative, sociable, fun loving, and affectionate would probably score at the high end of the:

According to Freud, memories, urges, and conflicts that are inaccessible and beyond awareness are contained in the:

Freud suggested that the ____________________ is the portion of the personality that seeks appropriate outlets for basic needs while adhering to social constraints.

Which of the following psychologists coined the term inferiority complex?

Nina got a bad grade on her first exam.This led her to think she could never understand the material or pass the class.As a result, she quit going to class, and of course, failed.Bandura calls this interaction of belief, experience, and behavior:

A book collector has just purchased a book which discusses how much behavior is governed by the unconscious.The book is most likely about the:

The third stage in Freud's psychosexual development is the ____________________ stage, which occurs between the ages of 3 and 5.

Personality tests that are based on the assumption that people's interpretations of ambiguous stimuli will reveal elements of their personality are called:

Outline Freud's conceptualization of the structure of personality, comparing and contrasting the three motivating forces he identified.

Which of the following is correct with regard to high self-monitors?

According to Carl Rogers, incongruence will result when: