Question 1

Freud's theory is called psychodynamic because it emphasizes the:

Accepted Answer

A)  importance of family dynamics throughout the lifespan in the development of a healthy personality. 
B)  movement of psychological energy within the person, in the form of attachments, conflicts, and motivations. 
C)  existential conflicts that lead a person to seek the meaning of life and to explore his or her personal motivations. 
D)  dynamic interaction between consequences in the environment and the psyche's interpretation of those consequences. 
A)  importance of family dynamics throughout the lifespan in the development of a healthy personality. 
B)  movement of psychological energy within the person, in the form of attachments, conflicts, and motivations. 
C)  existential conflicts that lead a person to seek the meaning of life and to explore his or her personal motivations. 
D)  dynamic interaction between consequences in the environment and the psyche's interpretation of those consequences.

Question 2

________ is defined as a program of shared rules that govern the behaviour of members of a society and a set of values, beliefs, and attitudes shared by most members of that community.

Accepted Answer

A)  Shared environment 
B)  Reciprocal determinism 
C)  Culture 
D)  The collective unconscious 
A)  Shared environment 
B)  Reciprocal determinism 
C)  Culture 
D)  The collective unconscious

Question 3

The district attorney never stops his campaign to rid the city of pornography. He gets extremely agitated when speaking out against the evils of "adult" magazines and quotes scripture endlessly to back up his tirades. Freudians might suggest that his behaviour is possibly a sign of:

Accepted Answer

A)  projection. 
B)  denial. 
C)  reaction formation. 
D)  displacement. 
A)  projection. 
B)  denial. 
C)  reaction formation. 
D)  displacement.

Question 4

A patient confides his homosexual orientation to his psychoanalyst. If the psychoanalyst shares the opinions of Sigmund Freud, he will view this sexual orientation as a:

Accepted Answer

A)  sin. 
B)  source of shame. 
C)  perversion. 
D)  variation of sexual function. 
A)  sin. 
B)  source of shame. 
C)  perversion. 
D)  variation of sexual function.

Question 5

Match the names with concepts related to their theories.
-existentialism

Accepted Answer

A) Jerome Kagan 
B) Rollo May 
C) Carl Jung 
D) Carl Rogers 
E) Abraham Maslow 
A) Jerome Kagan 
B) Rollo May 
C) Carl Jung 
D) Carl Rogers 
E) Abraham Maslow

Question 6

Prof. Hirth takes a humanist approach to personality. She would most likely agree that the most influential aspect of human personality is our:

Accepted Answer

A)  capacity to shape our own futures. 
B)  past learning. 
C)  genetic makeup. 
D)  unconscious conflicts. 
A)  capacity to shape our own futures. 
B)  past learning. 
C)  genetic makeup. 
D)  unconscious conflicts.

Question 7

Objective tests are standardized questionnaires that require written responses.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 8

Humanist psychology is sometimes called "the third force" in psychology.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 9

According to Freud, personality develops through a series of psychosexual stages. During the grade-school years until puberty, the psychosexual stage is called the:

Accepted Answer

A)  oral stage. 
B)  anal stage. 
C)  latency stage. 
D)  phallic stage. 
A)  oral stage. 
B)  anal stage. 
C)  latency stage. 
D)  phallic stage.

Question 10

Few parents have a single child-rearing style that they use consistently with all their children.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 11

Professor Benvolio's personality course emphasizes the importance of Gordon Allport's contributions to the field of psychology. Prof. Benvolio would be most likely to agree that:

Accepted Answer

A)  most individuals have five to ten central traits that reflect a characteristic way of behaving, dealing with others, and reacting to new situations. 
B)  people fail to understand the power of culture on behaviour, and so they attribute another person's mysterious actions to the individual's personality rather than to cultural norms. 
C)  repression occurs when a threatening idea, memory, or emotion is blocked from an individual's conscious awareness. 
D)  the price of free will is often anxiety and despair, which is why many people try to escape from freedom into narrow certainties. 
A)  most individuals have five to ten central traits that reflect a characteristic way of behaving, dealing with others, and reacting to new situations. 
B)  people fail to understand the power of culture on behaviour, and so they attribute another person's mysterious actions to the individual's personality rather than to cultural norms. 
C)  repression occurs when a threatening idea, memory, or emotion is blocked from an individual's conscious awareness. 
D)  the price of free will is often anxiety and despair, which is why many people try to escape from freedom into narrow certainties.

Question 12

One of the difficulties of retrospective analysis as the foundation for theory development is the fact that it creates an illusion of causality between events.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 13

Gordon Allport was one of the most influential psychologists in personality theory.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 14

Match the names with concepts related to their theories.
-womb envy

Accepted Answer

A) Gordon Allport 
B) Raymond Cattell 
C) Karen Horney 
D) Sigmund Freud 
E) Melanie Klein 
A) Gordon Allport 
B) Raymond Cattell 
C) Karen Horney 
D) Sigmund Freud 
E) Melanie Klein

Question 15

In psychoanalysis, the psychic energy that fuels sexuality and life instincts is called the:

Accepted Answer

A)  superego. 
B)  ego. 
C)  id. 
D)  libido. 
A)  superego. 
B)  ego. 
C)  id. 
D)  libido.

Question 16

Most of us find it an easy task to see how cultural rules affect our own personalities.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 17

Radical behaviourists believed that personality is an illusion.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 18

Early philosophers suggested that human personality is based on:

Accepted Answer

A)  the sense of being able to achieve goals. 
B)  early relationships with the mother. 
C)  four different mixes of basic body fluids. 
D)  a person's subjective sense of self and free will. 
A)  the sense of being able to achieve goals. 
B)  early relationships with the mother. 
C)  four different mixes of basic body fluids. 
D)  a person's subjective sense of self and free will.

Question 19

The object-relations school is sometimes called "the third force" in psychology.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 20

The humanist approach suggests that despite genetic, environmental, cultural, and psychodynamic influences, people can exercise free will to determine the kind of person they will become.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Freud's theory is called psychodynamic because it emphasizes the:

________ is defined as a program of shared rules that govern the behaviour of members of a society and a set of values, beliefs, and attitudes shared by most members of that community.

The district attorney never stops his campaign to rid the city of pornography. He gets extremely agitated when speaking out against the evils of "adult" magazines and quotes scripture endlessly to back up his tirades. Freudians might suggest that his behaviour is possibly a sign of:

A patient confides his homosexual orientation to his psychoanalyst. If the psychoanalyst shares the opinions of Sigmund Freud, he will view this sexual orientation as a:

Match the names with concepts related to their theories. -existentialism

Prof. Hirth takes a humanist approach to personality. She would most likely agree that the most influential aspect of human personality is our:

Objective tests are standardized questionnaires that require written responses.

Humanist psychology is sometimes called "the third force" in psychology.

According to Freud, personality develops through a series of psychosexual stages. During the grade-school years until puberty, the psychosexual stage is called the:

Few parents have a single child-rearing style that they use consistently with all their children.

Professor Benvolio's personality course emphasizes the importance of Gordon Allport's contributions to the field of psychology. Prof. Benvolio would be most likely to agree that:

One of the difficulties of retrospective analysis as the foundation for theory development is the fact that it creates an illusion of causality between events.

Gordon Allport was one of the most influential psychologists in personality theory.

Match the names with concepts related to their theories. -womb envy

In psychoanalysis, the psychic energy that fuels sexuality and life instincts is called the:

Most of us find it an easy task to see how cultural rules affect our own personalities.

Radical behaviourists believed that personality is an illusion.

Early philosophers suggested that human personality is based on:

The object-relations school is sometimes called "the third force" in psychology.

The humanist approach suggests that despite genetic, environmental, cultural, and psychodynamic influences, people can exercise free will to determine the kind of person they will become.

What Is Psychology

How Psychologists Do Research

Genes, Evolution, and Environment

The Brain: Source of Mind and Self

Body Rhythms and Mental States

Sensation and Perception

Learning and Conditioning

Behaviour in Social and Cultural Context

Thinking and Intelligence

Memory

Emotion, Stress, and Health

Motivation

Development Over the Life Span

Psychological Disorders

Approaches to Treatment and Therapy

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Exam 14: Theories of Personality

Freud's theory is called psychodynamic because it emphasizes the:

________ is defined as a program of shared rules that govern the behaviour of members of a society and a set of values, beliefs, and attitudes shared by most members of that community.

The district attorney never stops his campaign to rid the city of pornography. He gets extremely agitated when speaking out against the evils of "adult" magazines and quotes scripture endlessly to back up his tirades. Freudians might suggest that his behaviour is possibly a sign of:

A patient confides his homosexual orientation to his psychoanalyst. If the psychoanalyst shares the opinions of Sigmund Freud, he will view this sexual orientation as a:

Match the names with concepts related to their theories. -existentialism

Prof. Hirth takes a humanist approach to personality. She would most likely agree that the most influential aspect of human personality is our:

Objective tests are standardized questionnaires that require written responses.

Humanist psychology is sometimes called "the third force" in psychology.

According to Freud, personality develops through a series of psychosexual stages. During the grade-school years until puberty, the psychosexual stage is called the:

Few parents have a single child-rearing style that they use consistently with all their children.

Professor Benvolio's personality course emphasizes the importance of Gordon Allport's contributions to the field of psychology. Prof. Benvolio would be most likely to agree that:

One of the difficulties of retrospective analysis as the foundation for theory development is the fact that it creates an illusion of causality between events.

Gordon Allport was one of the most influential psychologists in personality theory.

Match the names with concepts related to their theories. -womb envy

In psychoanalysis, the psychic energy that fuels sexuality and life instincts is called the:

Most of us find it an easy task to see how cultural rules affect our own personalities.

Radical behaviourists believed that personality is an illusion.

Early philosophers suggested that human personality is based on:

The object-relations school is sometimes called "the third force" in psychology.

The humanist approach suggests that despite genetic, environmental, cultural, and psychodynamic influences, people can exercise free will to determine the kind of person they will become.

What Is Psychology

How Psychologists Do Research

Genes, Evolution, and Environment

The Brain: Source of Mind and Self

Body Rhythms and Mental States

Sensation and Perception

Learning and Conditioning

Behaviour in Social and Cultural Context

Thinking and Intelligence

Memory

Emotion, Stress, and Health

Motivation

Development Over the Life Span

Psychological Disorders

Approaches to Treatment and Therapy

Filters