Exam 10: Personality

Which of the following defense mechanisms is used when people provide self-justifying explanations in place of the actual,but threatening,reason for their behavior?

Which of the following sequences indicates the order of the first three stages in Freud's theory of psychosexual development,from first to last?

Which of the following approaches to personality is least likely to emphasize the stability of personality?

Young children resolve the Oedipus conflict by wanting to be as much like the same-sex parent as possible,a process termed:

A _____ trait is a single characteristic that directs most of a person's activities.

Distinguish between self-efficacy and self-esteem.How do these concepts reflect their origins in social learning theory? Suggest how self-esteem may vary across cultures.

Barry is trying to come up with an interpretation of an abstract collage of colors,lines,and shapes he is looking at.Barry is most probably taking some sort of personality test.

The theory seeks to explain in a straightforward way the consistencies in individuals' behavior.

Evaluate the learning approaches to personality.

After the resolution of the Oedipal conflict,typically around age 5 or 6,children move into the _____ period,which lasts until puberty.

Which of the following is NOT one of Hans Eysenck's major personality dimensions?

Pearl is kind,cooperative,appreciative,and sympathetic.Ruby is outgoing,talkative,fun-loving,and sociable.Pearl probably scores high on the Big Five dimension of _____,whereas Ruby likely scores high on _____.

Baby Celeste is busy,active,and sleeps fitfully;her sister,by contrast,was calm and placid as a baby.This vignette illustrates differences in:

Dr.Portillo's research team is using various methods to assess the trait of extraversion.Dr.Portillo interpreting participants' responses to TAT pictures.Her postdoctoral research fellow is recording the number and length of conversations participants initiate in a laboratory situation.Finally,Dr.Portillo's graduate student is examining her own extraversion scores on a test of the Big Five dimensions.Which research team member is correctly paired with the type of personality assessment he or she is using?

According to Carl Jung,_____ are universal symbolic representations of a particular person,object,or experience (such as good and evil).

_____ approaches to personality emphasize people's inherent goodness and their tendency to move toward higher levels of functioning.

The _____ is the raw,unorganized,inborn part of personality whose sole purpose is to reduce tension created by primitive drives related to hunger,sex,aggression,and irrational impulses.

One of the best examples of a self-report measure,and one of the most frequently used personality tests,is the:

To Freud,much of our personality is determined by the _____.

A researcher develops a questionnaire to assess impulsiveness among adults.In a journal article,she presents evidence that college students tend to get essentially the same score if they take the test twice,two months apart.However,when you look at the sample questionnaire items she included in the article,it seems to you that they relate more to whether a person is sociable,outgoing,and fun than to whether an individual is impulsive.You are specifically questioning the _____ of the researcher's questionnaire.