Exam 12: Personality

Dr.Hawkins believes that the big five personality traits stand out as important dimensions of personality because those traits have significant adaptive implication is largely determined by an individual's genetic makeup.Dr.Hawkins's views are similar to the view of personality put forward by

According to Carl Rogers,people with highly ____________________ self-concepts are especially likely to be plagued by recurrent anxiety.

The occurrence of so-called copycat crimes where someone hijacks an airliner after seeing a movie about a hijacking provides anecdotal evidence for

The idea that ambiguous materials can serve as a blank screen onto which people impose their characteristic concerns,conflicts and desires is termed the

Four-year-old Sam has erotically tinged desires for his mother and also feels hostility toward his father.Freud would conclude that Sam is experiencing the

According to the evolutionary approach to personality,humans have evolved special sensitivity to variations in the ability to cooperate and collaborate with others,which is closely associated with the Big Five personality trait of ____________________.

The concept of personality is used to explain the ____________________ in a person's behavior over time and the ____________________ among people reacting to the same situation.

Terror management theory proposes that self-esteem and faith in a cultural world view shield people from the anxiety associated with their mortality.

Esteban has a job that pays well and he recently moved to a neighborhood where there is little crime.Lately,he finds that he is thinking seriously about finding the right person to settle down with,and raising a family.According to Maslow's hierarchy of needs,at this point in time Esteban is MOST likely motivated by

Freud believed that during the phallic stage,children develop erotically tinged desires for

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

According to Hans Eysenck,____________________ involves being anxious,tense,moody,and low in self-esteem.

On first learning about the different theoretical perspectives on personality,many people like the views of the humanistic theorists best.Why do you think this is? Are these reasons sound,scientific criteria for evaluating a theoretical perspective on personality?

Which psychologist's theory of personality uses conditioning principles and inherited differences in physiological functioning to explain how heredity is linked to personality?

Briefly describe the strengths and weaknesses of the behavioral approach to personality.

____ is a statistical procedure used by researchers to identify closely related clusters of variables.

The fact that there are literally dozens of insightful theories of personality illustrates which of the following unifying themes of your textbook?

The largely unconscious reactions used to protect a person from unpleasant emotions such as anxiety and guilt are

The Oedipal complex,of such great importance in Freud's thinking,occurs during the ____________________ stage of psychosexual development.

Research suggests that highly narcissistic people have very stable and secure self-esteem.