Question 1

Eme becomes distressed and anxious if any object in the house is out of place or if there is dust, smudges, or spots on the floor, walls, or furniture. Freud would suggest that the roots of Eme's behaviour are in the

Accepted Answer

A)  anal stage. 
B)  latency period. 
C)  oral stage. 
D)  phallic stage.

Question 2

Id is to ________ as ego is to ________.

Accepted Answer

A)  pleasure-seeking; rational 
B)  rational; moral 
C)  pleasure-seeking; moral 
D)  moral; rational

Question 3

Freud called the first stage of life the oral stage because ___________ is the first part of the body to be associated with gratification.

Accepted Answer

A)  the anus 
B)  the hands 
C)  the genitals 
D)  the mouth

Question 4

Shawn is striving to become the best person possible, with the fullest range of skills and satisfaction that can be developed. According to humanistic psychologists, Shawn would be striving for

Accepted Answer

A)  conditional positive regard. 
B)  unconditional positive regard. 
C)  self-actualization. 
D)  conditions of worth.

Question 5

Which of the following is an example of repression?

Accepted Answer

A)  Gustavo does not remember being humiliated by his football coach. 
B)  Bernard asks a professor to raise his grade; when the professor refuses, Bernard throws a temper tantrum. 
C)  Hua explains that he ate an entire chocolate cake so that it wouldn't spoil in the summer heat. 
D)  Paul redirects anger from his boss to his dog.

Question 6

What is an inventory, and what is the MMPI-2 designed to reveal?

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Question 7

Which of the following refers to particular ways we respond to the environment that remain fairly constant over time?

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A)  norms 
B)  traits 
C)  egos 
D)  clusters

Question 8

Projection is defined as

Accepted Answer

A)  reverting to a behaviour that might have reduced anxiety at an earlier stage of development. 
B)  attributing our own undesirable thoughts or behaviour to others. 
C)  taking out our frustrations on a less threatening person or object. 
D)  making excuses to justify our failures or mistakes.

Question 9

Which psychologist believed that individuals often do not become fully functioning persons because, in childhood, they fail to receive unconditional positive regard from their parents?

Accepted Answer

A)  Hans Eysenck 
B)  Carl Rogers 
C)  Gordon Allport 
D)  Abraham Maslow

Question 10

An individual's unique characteristic patterns of thinking, behaving and feeling is called

Accepted Answer

A)  psychic determiners. 
B)  intelligence. 
C)  temperament. 
D)  personality.

Question 11

Lianna, who is overly dependent, optimistic, and gullible, may have experienced too much gratification and become fixated at the

Accepted Answer

A)  phallic stage. 
B)  genital stage. 
C)  oral stage. 
D)  anal stage.

Question 12

According to Freud, which of the following reside in the conscious?

Accepted Answer

A)  selfish needs 
B)  stored knowledge 
C)  repressed memories 
D)  moment-to-moment thoughts and feelings

Question 13

Maxine makes excuses, finding self-deceiving justification for unacceptable ideas and impulses. This is called

Accepted Answer

A)  suppression. 
B)  projection. 
C)  repression. 
D)  rationalization.

Question 14

According to Freud, your address and telephone number would usually reside in your

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A)  unconscious. 
B)  preconscious. 
C)  conscious mind. 
D)  ego.

Question 15

According to Freud, which of the following would not reside at the level of the unconscious?

Accepted Answer

A)  shameful experiences 
B)  accessible memories 
C)  immoral urges 
D)  untamed passions

Question 16

Personality theories that attempt to explain personality and differences between people in terms of their personal characteristics are called

Accepted Answer

A)  social cognitive theories. 
B)  psychoanalytic theories. 
C)  humanistic theories. 
D)  trait theories.

Question 17

According to Jung, what are the three components of personality? Describe each.

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Question 18

The best way to study the relative contribution of heredity and environment is to compare

Accepted Answer

A)  identical twins reared together and apart. 
B)  adopted children to their adoptive and biological parents. 
C)  identical and fraternal twins. 
D)  fraternal twins reared together and apart.

Question 19

Which of the following is an example of rationalization?

Accepted Answer

A)  Phil fails to recognize his attraction to his son's date. 
B)  Bernard asks a professor to raise his grade; when the professor refuses, Bernard throws a temper tantrum. 
C)  Paul redirects anger from his boss to his dog. 
D)  Hua explains that he ate an entire chocolate cake so that it wouldn't spoil in the summer heat.

Question 20

According to Freud, repression operates in all of the following ways, except

Accepted Answer

A)  removing painful memories from consciousness and keeping them in the unconscious. 
B)  preventing disturbing aggressive impulses in the unconscious from entering consciousness. 
C)  preventing disturbing sexual impulses in the unconscious from entering consciousness. 
D)  rechannelling sexual or aggressive energy into pursuits and accomplishments that society considers praiseworthy.

Exam 11: Personality, Theory and Assessment