Exam 15: Personality

If a personality questionnaire were to be administered to numerous pairs of identical twins, what degree of heritability would be expected on a measure of extraversion/introversion?

Sigmund Freud viewed adult human personality as composed of which of the following subsystems?

Stella feels intense dislike toward her grandmother but is unable to acknowledge this dislike consciously. Instead, she claims that her grandmother dislikes her. This defense mechanism is called __________.

Dr. Personality is interested in examining the consistency of honest behaviors in children across a range of situations. He observes how likely they are to behave honestly during a classroom exercise, and then he also records how often they behaved honestly during a playground game. If Dr. Personality's results are like those of most researchers, about what degree of correlation for honest behaviors would be expected across the two situations?

Deafness or blindness, paralysis of parts of the body, uncontrollable trembling, and gaps in memory were the symptoms of __________, from which many of Sigmund Freud's patients suffered.

If you've got a devil on one shoulder telling you to do something "naughty," and an angel on the other urging you to remain upright and moral, then the angel, according to Freud, would represent the __________.

People who "trash talk" at basketball games, then act charming and sophisticated at art openings, are more likely to score high in __________.

Robert is 8 months old. At this age, he would be engaging in __________ because pleasure is focused most on the __________.

Despite many criticisms, the humanistic approach is credited with __________.

According to psychoanalytic theory, __________ is occurring when memories or impulses that give rise to anxiety are pushed out of consciousness.

After reading the works of the humanists, Scott intends to become a self-actualized person. If Scott were successful, this achievement would involve __________.

According to Freudian theory, the__________ is governed by the __________ principle.

At first, a child's behavior is based on a fear of direct social consequences. Later, he will avoid certain behaviors even when there is no obvious chance of punishment. Sigmund Freud would say that the control put on the child by society is then __________.

A 3-year-old child who slaps her own hand to punish herself is showing signs of __________.

According to Hans Eysenck, introversion corresponds to __________.

According to Freud, the actual events in our dreams are best referred to as __________ content.

Unlike Sigmund Freud, Maslow and Rogers believed that people __________.

What is the purpose of a defense mechanism?

According to Freud, the process that moves a child from one psychosexual stage to the next __________.

Jamal and Liz are each given two tests of fearfulness, both rated on a 10-point scale, on which zero means no fear and 10 means maximum fear. In the first test, both Jamal and Liz are confronted with a vicious dog. Here, Jamal's fear rating is 9 points and Liz's is 5. In the second test, both are about to take a difficult examination. Here, Jamal's rating is 5 points and Liz's is 9. These results illustrate __________.