Exam 15: Personality in Perspective

Allport noted that ____ supplies the basic material of personality,while ____ shape(s)the person as a finished product.

Life ______ implies the shaping of the self,attaining an identity,and finding a unified purpose in life.

Zuckerman's trait of sensation seeking is primarily influenced by

____ thought people were primarily rational human beings,governed by a conscious perception of themselves and their world of experience.

____ saw infancy as the major formative period that shapes the child's character.

Personality traits that remain stable and relatively unchanging from about age 30 on are called

In Seligman's terms,people who believe they are in control are pessimistic rather than optimistic.

The _______ approach,with its emphasis on the impact of heredity,remains a useful and growing area of personality research.

All of the social and environmental forces that shape personality do so by the techniques of learning.

____ recognized the role of consciousness,and he proposed that people have cognitive needs to know and to understand.

According to ____,it is the parent's responsibility to supply unconditional positive regard to their children.

According to Allport,the mother is the primary source of two conditions crucial to later development:

According to studies of consistency in personality,____ are consistent over the life span.

Allport and Cattell believed in the influence of larger historical forces and the type of society a people constructs.

The first theorist to emphasize parental influences on the formation of personality was

Studies confirm that personality ____ as we grow into adolescence and early adulthood.

One method for studying the non-conscious involves ____,in which various stimuli are presented to research participants below their level of conscious awareness.

____ refer(s)to conscious feelings,plans,and goals,and how we feel about life.

People who lost their jobs show ____ in neuroticism and ____ in conscientiousness and extraversion.

In a day care study,no significant differences in self-esteem were found in children when mothers