Exam 14: D: Personality

The child is born into the world with a psyche equipped with

What technique is used by trait theorists to reduce the diversity of traits to as few as three or five underlying traits?

If a parent treats both of her children poorly and neglects their needs,and as a consequence they both end up with low self-esteem and difficulties forming close relationships,the parenting in this case is a _________________ factor.

Freud argued that during the ___________ stage,from the ages of 6 to 12,sexual urges are ___________ into scholastic abilities.

Many have compared Freud's idea of the mind to an iceberg.If that were the case and you were standing on the deck of a ship in the Arctic,what part of the mind would you see above the water?

Which defence mechanism figured prominently in the theory of Alfred Adler?

A married woman is sexually attracted to her coworker,so she focuses on all the things she hates about him and tells others about how revolting he is.This woman is using the defence mechanism of

The ________ seeks to find a resolution between the competing demands of the ________.

To Jung,the memories and behaviour patterns inherited from past generations are part of the

_______ theory is called the third force in personality theory.

The neo-Freudians agreed with Freud's ideas on

The method of test construction that requires test developers to begin with a clear-cut conceptualization of a trait and write items to assess that conceptualization is the ________________ method.

Travis is a participant in the X-games every year,which features events that are high flying and exhilarating to watch or participate in,but also very dangerous to the competitors.Because Travis is willing to take chances with his health to get the adrenaline rush from these sorts of events,Costa and McCrae would argue that he ranks high on which of the five factors?

Concerned with his own academic flaws and weaknesses,Preston often aggressively lashes out at his instructors via his evaluations of their teaching ability on RateMyProfessor.com and during class teaching evaluations.This is an example of what Freudian defence mechanism?

According to Freud,when individuals engage in regression as a defence mechanism in adulthood,they are prone to regressing to which stage of psychosexual development?

In the metaphor the angel,the devil,and me,the devil is the

Carl Jung's term for recurring themes that have been important to humans in many cultures and settings since prehistoric times,such as the concepts of mother,hero,or villain,is

The ____________ hypothesis assumes that in the process of interpreting ambiguous stimuli,people inevitably project aspects of their personality onto the stimulus.

Carl Jung's term for the part of our personality that Freud referred to as the unconscious was the

Alexander just finished the most difficult statistics exam he has ever taken.When asked the next day by his mother how the exam went,Alexander tells her that he cannot remember a single thing from the previous two days.This experience is most similar to what Freudian defence mechanism?