Exam 11: Theories of Personality

Carl Rogers believed people question themselves and experience negative effects on their self-concept when they receive:

The Freudian stage in which boys must resolve the Oedipus complex is the ______ stage.

Steve is extremely uptight and compulsively neat and orderly.According to Freudian theory,he became fixated at the oral stage of psychosexual development.

On which of the following traits would you expect a person described as "anal retentive" to obtain an elevated score?

According to behaviourists,personality is:

Ted is friendly,loves to tell jokes at parties,and is perceived by others as warm and considerate.On which two of the Big Five traits would you expect Ted to obtain high scores?

According to Freud,the result of conflict between the id and superego is:

Recent findings suggest that Canadians are significantly different from Americans in terms of basic personality traits.

Which famous memory researcher is known for their work on the inaccuracies of memory retrieval such as the misinformation effect theory?

The ego operates according to the ______ principle.

In which psychosexual stage does the defence mechanism of identification figure prominently?

A person's responses to a projective test are thought to reflect:

Self-efficacy refers to the ability of a person to give unconditional positive regard.

Someone who was interested in measuring a person's source traits,as described by Raymond Cattell,would use the:

Which defence mechanism figured prominently in the theory of Alfred Adler?

Gordon Allport thought traits were wired into the brain.

For Freud,the mind is divided into ___ levels.

Your teacher organizes a debate on Freudian theory.You are assigned to be on the anti-Freud side and,therefore,must point out problems in the theory.Which of the following will be at the top of your list?

Freud's ___________model divided the mind into three levels.

Although Chien's parents have told him that he attended his grandmother's funeral when he was 9 years old,he has no memory of the funeral.According to Freud,Chien's memory of the funeral may be in the __________ mind.