Exam 13: Theories of Personality

The unique and relatively stable ways in which each individual thinks, acts, and feels is called ________.

Which of the following was NOT a facet of Bandura's theory of reciprocal determinism?

Sigmund Freud proposed that his patients' disorders resulted most often from psychological conflicts related to sex.

When one thinks of "value judgment" in relation to personality, one is thinking about ________.

Albert Bandura's notion that people are affected by their environment, but can also influence that environment, is known as ________.

The ________ theory of personality has its basis in the theories of learning, and focuses on the effects of environment on one's behavior.

When anxiety provoking memories are prevented from reaching conscious awareness, such as not remembering lying to parents, it is called ________.

Which neo-Freudian believed personality was mostly a product of dealing with anxieties during childhood?

Freud named the most primitive part of the personality the id, which is a Latin word that means ________.

According to Freud's theory of personality development, there are ________ stages through which each person must pass.

John dreamed that he was in a train that entered a tunnel. If a psychologist believed that the dream expressed John's unconscious sexual desires, the psychologist would likely be a ________.

While taking the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory, Vince notices that it contains certain questions that are asked several times in different ways. He asks his daughter, who is a graduate student in psychology, why that is. What is his daughter likely to say?

The superego is that part of the personality which represents the ________.

According to Carl Rogers, anxiety and neurotic behaviors occur when ________.

According to Hofstede's dimensions of cultural personality, cultures that are ________ are assertive and competitive.

The pattern of characteristic thoughts, feelings, and behaviors that persists over time and situations and distinguishes one person from another is called ________.

The field of ________ is devoted to the study of just how much of an individual's personality is due to inherited traits.

The id is that part of the personality which operates according to the:

Albert Bandura considers ________ as a person's expectancy of how effective his or her efforts to accomplish a goal will be in any particular circumstance.

Using Hofstede's terms, how would you describe a cultural personality in which the majority of the members of the culture accept that power is in the hands of the few?