Exam 14: Theories of Personality

Canada, with its multicultural population, is a unique environment within which to explore the interaction between both individualist and collectivist cultural affiliations on self-esteem. Tafarodi and colleagues at the University of Toronto found that:

Biology can be thought of as a rough sketch, rather than a blueprint, for human personality.

Social-cognitive learning theory emphasizes the continual interaction between persons and a given situation.

In collectivist cultures, more weight is given to group norms than to individual attitudes as explanations of behaviour.

Behavioural geneticists would agree that within a group of people, about ________ of the variation in aggressiveness is attributable to genetic differences.

What makes children who grow up in the same family so different, apart from their genes?

The junior class at a local high school was stunned when an alcohol-impaired driver missed a turn and caused a fatal accident involving a classmate. The school crisis team noted that many classmates responded in ways that seemed to indicate that they were invulnerable to this kind of tragedy because "They were careful drivers who always wore seatbelts." The crisis team concluded that these students were using the defence mechanism called:

________ is an estimate of the proportion of the total variance in some trait among individuals within a group that is attributable to genetic differences.

In psychoanalysis, the part of the personality that represents reason, good sense, and rational self-control is called the:

Personality researchers note that an important trait, ________, is not included among the Big Five.

Humanist psychology emphasizes the scientific understanding and assessment of human behaviour.

If you do not want to be taken in by the Barnum effect, beware of your selective perceptions.

What are the stages of psychosexual development in order, beginning from birth?

Match the names with concepts related to their theories. -psychosexual stages of development

In psychoanalysis, the part of the personality that represents reason and good sense and responds to reality is called the:

According to our textbook, all of the following statements are true EXCEPT:

Research on aggressiveness has shown that:

Carl Jung's theory of personality emphasizes the methods of empirical psychology in generating personality constructs.

The Big Five personality traits are stable throughout a person's life.

For Rollo May, our personalities reflect: