Exam 12: Personality-Part C

The child who reverts to thumb sucking and whining when his mother brings a new baby home is using the defense mechanism known as regression.

One criticism of the Rorschach Inkblot Test is that it is open to the subjective interpretation of the examiner.

Existentialists believe that angst occurs when stressos are too challenging for our abilities.

Gordon Allport believed that personality traits were causes of specific behaviors.

People who alphabetize their DVD collection and color-code their wardrobe might be fixated in Freud's anal stage of psychosexual development.

When measured by rigorous scientific criteria,the Thematic Apperception Test has been found to be more reliable and valid than is the Rorschach Inkblot Test.

People who are very imaginative tend to score high on the extraversion dimension of personality.

Women engage in more social relational aggression than do men.

Neediness is a characteristic of fixation in Freud's oral stage of psychosexual development.

Hazel Markus termed the traits that people use to define themselves as self-narrative.

Agreeableness is one of the Big Five personality factors.

Self-esteem is usually assessed through direct observations of behavior.

Research suggests that self-esteem is the single best predictor of a person's professional success.

Walter Mischel argued that personality traits do a poor job in predicting individuals' behaviors.

College students who have messy dorm rooms typically score high on the personality dimension of neuroticism.

Self-esteem is the tendency to seek evidence to confirm self-concept.

Children tend to exhibit only three of the five dimensions of personality.

Narcissists tend to have low self-esteem.

Women tend to score higher than do men on the Big Five dimensions of agreeableness and neuroticism.

Teenagers who score low in extraversion are more likely to be juvenile delinquents.