Exam 15: Personality

Noah, the backup ruckman on the football team, never stops talking about how great he is. He insists that if the coach would only give him a chance, he would show everyone that he is the best. What might Noah be exhibiting?

Sheila is taking a personality test for a waitress job at a new restaurant in town. Despite her shy nature, she wants to answer the questions in such a way that she appears outgoing. What aspect of this test will give her problems if it is low?

The neo-Freudian, Carl Jung, suggested the existence of a collective unconscious that contains images shared by all people, called ________.

Adler suggested that the principal motive in human personality is ________.

Justin is working on his psychology assignment for class when he gets a phone call inviting him to a party. His decision to finish the assignment before going to the party reflects the functioning of the ________.

Dr Iness is studying the distress calls of several different types of animals. What field of psychology is his specialty?

William's father wants him to join the army. William has no desire to join. What personality test could William fool the easiest into believing he had a psychological disorder that might keep him out of the army?

The statistical tool of ________ is most important to the trait theory of personality.

The ________ seeks to find a resolution between the competing demands of the ________.

Defence mechanisms, according to Sigmund Freud, are unconscious attempts to reduce our feelings of ________ and are used in such a manner by the ________.

After having completed and done well at the endurance triathlon, Rob declares it the most satisfying experience of his 37 years of life. This might be labelled a(n)________.

Alfred Adler was most interested in understanding how the ________ complex led to differences in psychological adjustment for psychologically healthy individuals versus those who developed a mental illness.

Which neo-Freudian emphasised the importance of the collective unconscious in personality development?

Which statement best fits the humanistic philosophy?

Which of the following is one of the three components of the Freudian personality structure?

The 1968 book Personality and Assessment was written by ________.

Some scholars have suggested that Maslow may have limited his search for self-actualised individuals to historical figures displaying traits of creativity and spontaneity. As such, his research may have been subject to ________.

A key point from the research on individualism-collectivism is that

The ________ is the most extensively researched of all structured personality tests.

Darnell is a psychotherapist who asks his clients to describe what is going on in ambiguous situations that are presented one at a time on different cards. His use of ________ is one method to attempt the assessment of an individual's personality.