Exam 12: The Individual Mind Personality and the Self

What is the relationship between self-esteem and school performance?

What is the cognitive expectancy featured in social-cognitive learning theories of personality about the source of individual outcomes?

Elena's brother was diagnosed with schizophrenia when he was in his twenties.Sometimes he reports that his neighbors are trying to control his behavior through the television set.Which part of the brain shows excess activity during such delusions of control?

Beginning in adolescence,in measures of self-esteem,Black Americans score ____.

Compare and contrast objective personality tests like the MMPI and projective personality tests like the Rorschach test.

Each of the Big Five traits consists of a _____.

Liz,who is very warm and friendly,is the life of the party.In fact,Liz invites friends over for parties or cookouts every weekend that she is free (i.e. ,when she's not involved with a book club,painting class,or yoga retreat).The Big Five trait that best describes this aspect of Liz's personality is ____.

The different periods in Freud's theory of the developing personality are called ____.

Lia grew up in a collectivistic culture and is in the yearly high school theatre production.She is most likely to ____.

What purpose does the text suggest that self-esteem may have played related to survival in the evolutionary past?

Sigmund Freud's treatment approach based on his psychodynamic theory is called ____.

People who differ in neuroticism show different volumes of areas of the prefrontal cortex,anterior cingulate cortex,and hippocampus,areas that have been implicated in ____.

What are the two basic requirements of a good test?

One of the earliest attempts to categorize personality traits came from Allport and Odbert (1936),who identified 4,500 terms in the dictionary that related to personality.Later,statistical methods were used to reduce these words to a list of ___ personality traits.

Liz,who is very warm and friendly,is the life of the party.In fact,Liz invites friends over for parties or cookouts every weekend that she is free (i.e. ,when she's not involved with a book club,painting class,or yoga retreat).Liz's husband dreads it when she invites friends over.He is reserved,uncomfortable with people he does not know well,and prefers quiet evenings of reading.The Big Five trait that best describes this aspect of his personality is ____.

The self does not exist in a vacuum.It both shapes and is shaped by ____.

Psychologists have identified five main personality traits,often called the "Big Five" or the five-trait model.Think about the "Big Five" personality traits we studied in class.Then select a real or fictional character from literature,film,television,or public life.How could the "Big Five" model be used to understand the character's personality? In a multiparagraph essay,explain what is meant by a "personality trait" according to the "Big Five" model,define each of the "Big Five" traits,and describe the character's personality using the "Big Five" traits.For each trait,be sure to provide evidence from the character's thoughts,emotions,and behavior.Include details from class materials,readings,and research on personality to support your discussion.

Jared,a college senior,is an outgoing person.His first reaction to many things is excitement,such as taking on a new challenge,meeting new people,or interviewing for a new job.From a biological perspective he would be described as having a low level of reactivity.Toward which end of the continuum of these Big Five traits would he likely fall?

A produce vendor sets up a stand next to a busy road,with a box for money and a sign that says $3 per bag.Most customers who take a bag of garden produce place $3 in the box.What is the most likely reason for this?

Which of the following Big Five traits had the greatest positive correlation with success across a wide range of professional,skilled,and unskilled job descriptions?