Exam 12: Personality

Define the concept of personality.Explain why "personality" may be adaptive, providing a concrete example.

According to Freud, when a person has a fixation that person will:

Tanisha has undergone a peak experience that has allowed her to clearly understand her place in the universe and the meaning of her existence.Maslow would say she has:

An advantage of projective personality tests is that:

People who rank highly in self-monitoring tend to get better performance evaluations on the job, both from peers and from supervisors.

Which of the following psychologists coined the term collective unconscious?

Alfred Adler believed that personality arises from our attempts to overcome or compensate for fundamental feelings of inadequacy.

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 nonidentical twins reared together were more similar on a given trait than the identical twins reared apart.This would be evidence that:

Mahatma Gandhi had a deep moral belief in nonviolence, and his strong beliefs guided almost all his personal and political actions throughout his life.Gandhi's passionate moral belief would likely be described by Gordon Allport as a:

The ego-defense mechanism that channels unacceptable impulses into socially acceptable activities is:

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

The ____________________ approach to personality stresses that each individual is unique and more than the sum of a set of predictable parts.

In Freud's conception of psychosexual development, the oral stage is:

Janeen thinks of herself as a shy person who is often anxious in social settings.However, her friends would describe her as outgoing and relaxed.According to Carl Rogers, Janeen is likely to:

If your self-concept is reasonably accurate, it is said to be:

According to Freud, our ____________________ is inactive but contains potentially accessible thoughts and memories.

Devan is given a test that contains a number of statements such as "I enjoy listening to loud music" and "I am generally a cautious person." Devan is supposed to mark "true" or "false" next to each statement.This type of test would be considered to be:

Kieran is an executive for a major corporation.She constantly needs to find ways to meet the corporation's goals and objectives, while taking into consideration factors such as laws and financial resources.In making these decisions, Kieran is acting most like the portion of the personality that Freud referred to as:

According to Freud, our ____________________ houses all the memories, urges, and conflicts that are beyond awareness.

Cam sees little connection between his own actions and the occurrence of rewards in his life.He believes that most things that happen in his life are a matter of luck.Cam appears to have: