Exam 15: Personality

Clyde's mother is named Beulah, and his girlfriend's name is Cosette. One night at dinner, Clyde says to Cosette, "Beulah, these string beans taste great!" Which of the following is not a Freudian interpretation of the fact that Clyde has accidentally referred to his romantic partner by his parent's name?

Albert Bandura and Walter Mischel are best referred to as __________.

Which of the following statements is false regarding theoretical emphases in psychological attempts to explain individual personality differences?

According to Sigmund Freud, personality development occurs in a series of __________ stages.

Julie is very high in self-monitoring. We can expect that when she goes out with different groups of people she __________.

Jennifer is seeing a therapist and is puzzled when the therapist starts referring to the significance of different "objects" in her life. Jennifer soon learns that in object relations theory, an "object" refers to __________.

After failing to receive a good job, the applicant decides that she would not have liked the job anyway. This person is displaying a defense mechanism called __________.

After several weeks in psychoanalysis, Jerry has repeatedly changed the subject as he came closer to talking about a childhood trauma. The psychoanalytic explanation for this resistance is that it is a product of __________.

Id is to __________ as superego is to __________.

Genetic influences have been identified for traits such as TV watching, oddly enough. Why is it logically absurd to think that genes directly influence the viewing of television?

Edward, who often feels attracted to men, ridicules others for being homosexual. Sigmund Freud would say Edward's sexual impulses have been repressed through a defense mechanism known as __________.

Which of the following is evidence that within-family effects, rather than between-family effects, operate to produce variations in personality?

A child has deeply hidden feelings of hostility toward a younger sibling. However, the child treats her sibling with apparent love. This is an example of the defense mechanism known as __________.

Which of the following presents Sigmund Freud's psychosexual stages in the correct order?

The id, according to Freud, abides entirely by __________.

Deborah is a new graduate student in psychology trying to decide which theoretical perspective she wants to study. She is intrigued by psychodynamic theory but confused by the terminology. A more experienced graduate student would explain to her that the term "dynamics" in psychodynamic theory most clearly refers to the __________.

As a skilled psychoanalyst, Alfred listens carefully for signs of indicating the existence of an unconscious conflict. Which of the following would give such a signal?

Which of the following is the correct order in Abraham Maslow's hierarchy?

When David reads about the differences in the behavioral tendencies between the people of cultures on two different continents, he speculates about what possibly could have caused the two groups to differ so much. Researchers could inform him that __________.

According to Sigmund Freud, __________ is the most primitive part of the human personality.