Exam 14: Theories of Personality

Freud interviewed many young children in order to confirm his concept of penis envy.

The majority culture in North America is collectivist.

Match the names with concepts related to their theories. -factor analysis of personality traits

Jerome Kagan found that reactive babies and nonreactive babies have opposite temperaments, but similar physiological responses to stress.

Kimberly is five years old. According to Freud, she would be in the psychosexual stage called the:

Which component of personality represents morality and parental authority?

During the early twentieth century, the Freudian concept of repressed longings merged with the foundational concepts of empirical psychology.

Freud speculated that young girls would panic when they discovered that they had a clitoris instead of a penis.

Which trait among the Big Five typically decreases by age 30?

Joy is a high-powered executive. She excels at meeting the needs of the company within the financial and policy constraints. Freud would refer to the portion of the personality that Joy is using in her decision making as the:

Define heritability. Describe an example of a highly heritable trait and an example of a trait that would have low heritability.

A classic radio show of the 1940s began by asking the question, "Who knows what evil lurks in the heart of man? The Shadow knows...." Explain the origin of the shadow archetype in Jungian theory. Describe three expressions of the shadow archetypes found in twenty-first-century culture, images, and stories.

Personality refers to a distinctive pattern of behaviour, mannerisms, thoughts, motives, and emotions that characterize an individual over time and across different situations.

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

Traits are habitual ways of behaving, thinking, and feeling.

According to Gordon Allport, most individuals have ________ central trait(s) that reflect(s) a characteristic way of behaving, dealing with others, and reacting to new situations.

For Abraham Maslow, our personalities reflect:

Behaviourists see personality as a set of habits and beliefs that have been rewarded in particular situations over a person's lifetime.

In behavioural-genetic research, the ________ includes unique aspects of a person's experience, such as winning the lead in the school play.

________ is defined as a two-way interaction between aspects of the environment and aspects of the individual in the shaping of personality traits.