Exam 12: Personality

Jose is one of the top baseball players in his league,but last week he struck out on an easy pitch.When this happened he smashed the water cooler in the dugout with his bat.According to Freud,Jose may be unconsciously dealing with his anger at himself for striking out on an easy pitch by using the defense mechanism of

It has been argued that which of the following should be recognized as a fundamental sixth factor in personality?

Walter Mischel's provocative theories have sparked debate among psychologists as to the relative importance of the person as opposed to the ____________________in determining behavior.

The self or self-concept is the central focus of

List and describe the three components into which Freud divided the personality,and indicate how these are distributed across three levels of awareness.

Which of the following would be considered the most healthy defense mechanism?

In the five-factor model of personality,people who score high in ____________________ tend to be anxious,hostile,self-conscious,insecure,and vulnerable.

The accumulated evidence from studies of the central concepts from psychodynamic theories has provided strong support for the concept of psychosexual stages.

Which of the following is NOT a criticism of the five-factor model of personality?

Research on the heritability of personality shows that ____ appears to have a surprisingly small impact on personality.

The evolutionary approach to personality suggests that ____ may have contributed to reproductive fitness.

The personality inventory developed by Raymond Cattell that describes an individual in terms of a limited number of personality source traits is the

Social cognitive theory differs from Skinner's approach in giving more weight to

In explaining behavior,social learning theorist Walter Mischel is most interested in the influence of the situation.

A systematic tendency to respond to questions on a personality inventory in a way that is unrelated to the content of the questions is called a

Bandura extended Skinner's view of behaviorism to explain personality by adding an emphasis on

Juan used to be a fairly generous individual,but it seemed that whenever he loaned things to people,they were never returned,or they were returned broken.Consequently,Juan is no longer generous.Based on principles of operant conditioning,Juan's lack of generosity is MOST likely a result of

The evolutionary approach has been criticized because of methodological problems with heritability ratios.

The impending possibility of a forbidden impulse getting out of control and being expressed in behavior would be most apt to produce ____ in the person.

Freud's contemporaries were uncomfortable with his theory for all of the following reasons,EXCEPT his argument that