Exam 15: Personality

Walter Mischel has argued that personality tests have low predictive validities because __________.

In discussing how within-family differences arise, the textbook authors suggest that some within-family differences occur __________.

Greg was certain that he could influence his adopted children and cause them to grow up happy, intellectually curious, and outgoing. He was very surprised 20 years later to find that his three adopted children had completely different personalities. The likely reason for Greg's experience is that __________.

Dr. York feels that people's motives and desires generally lie hidden in the unconscious and are derived from early childhood experiences. Dr. York adheres to the __________ approach.

Jared, a 14-year-old boy, plays fairly aggressively with his classmate, to the point of calling him cruel names and even punching him painfully. One psychoanalytic interpretation of this behavior would be that __________.

Both Ralph and Harold want to ask Chris to go to the movies. Ralph believes that Chris will turn down his invitation, while Harold believes that Chris will accept his. In terms of Mischel's model, we would say that Ralph and Harold have very different __________.

In his longitudinal study of coping mechanisms, George Vaillant classified defense mechanisms according to their level of maturity. For example, __________.

In comparing the views of contemporary social learning theorists with those of behaviorists and trait theorists, the textbook's authors suggest that social learning theorists __________.

Say you really wish, deep down, to be messy and sloppy in every way imaginable but instead, out of guilt, take great pains to be exceptionally neat and tidy. This constitutes a defense mechanism Freud called __________.

Realizing one's potential to the fullest __________.

Which of the following types of evidence was not used by Freud to test psychoanalytic theory?

From the psychoanalytic perspective, the tale of Snow White __________.

Those who are high in self-monitoring tend, on average, to be __________.

All of the following statements made by a patient during free association are examples of resistance except __________.

When Jenny was 6, she would wake her parents up at 4:00 a.m. on her birthday to open her presents. Now that she is 15, she waits until everyone is up and has eaten breakfast before opening her presents. Jenny has developed __________.

A physician has ruled out any medical cause for Tammy's complaints of paralysis in her legs and believes that the cause is psychological instead. We would say that her paralysis is __________.

According to Carl Rogers, our self-concept __________.

The part of the mind, according to Freud, whose contents are not presently in focal awareness and yet are also not repressed is called the __________.

In comparison with all of the other children in his class, Michael was much better at sitting in front of a tasty treat without eating it. Which of the following can we predict about Michael as he grows up?

Andy and Annie are young nonidentical twins and so are the same age. While Andy is experiencing the Oedipus complex, Annie will be going through the __________ complex.