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If you are asked to describe your best friends by explaining how they act, typically feel, and what they think about, you would be describing their |
Personality |
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According to Freud, the______ mind was the most important determining factor in human behavior and personality. |
Unconscious |
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According to Freud comma which part of the personality is totally buried within each individual? |
ID |
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The waking of sexual curiosity and interest in the genitals is the beginning of what Freud termed the |
Phallic stage |
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Many of Kyle's friends like to a dress up on Halloween as Devils, vampires, and zombies. According to Carl Jung Theory, what archetype is being expressed? |
Shadow |
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Which neo-freudian believed personality was mostly a product of dealing with anxieties during childhood? |
Karen Horney |
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According to the behavioral Theory, personality primarily consist of |
Learned responses |
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Albert bandura considers______ as a person's expectancy of how effective his or her effort to accomplish a goal will be in a particular circumstance |
Self-efficacy |
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You have walked in late to class and your psychology Professor is explaining how one personality theorist C personality as a relatively stable set of potential responses to various situations. You know immediately that your professor is talking about the theories of |
Julian rotter |
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Nina appreciates compliments about her new photography business but really values constructive criticism, as she can then address particular issues. According to Julian rotter, Nina has a |
Internal locus of control |
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What did Carl Rogers mean by the term fully functioning person? |
Someone who is experiencing a match between his or her real and ideal self, and who is also trusting of their innermost intuitions and urges |
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Trait theories are less concerned with _____and more concerned with______ |
Changing personality, predicting personality |
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A colleague at work is asked to describe you to the new manager. Most likely, the trees they will use in the description are examples of |
Surface traits |
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Cattell's research and use of factor analysis essentially scaled-down many, many different ways of describing aspects of personality into_____ source traits |
16 |
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In the big five Theory of Personality, E stands for |
Extraversion |
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What is a major shortcoming in the field of behavioral genetics in terms of their studies on human personality traits? |
Behavioral genetics are unable to conduct controlled research studies on human subjects |
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What, if anything, have adoptions studies taught us regarding the relationship between heredity and personality? |
Adoption Studies have confirmed that personality can be strongly influenced by genetics |
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Which of the following is an example of a halo effect? |
Tarence unkowingly tends to write his new clients Behavior slightly higher during testing after noticing the client is wearing a class ring from his own alma mater |
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Frequency counts and rating scales are especially helpful in assessing |
Observable behaviors |
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Which of the following personality assessments might be best suited for objectively identifying abnormal patterns of behavior or thinking? |
MMPI-2 |
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What is the function of validity scale? |
To determine if a person is giving an accurate response |
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If you are describing characteristics of your child such as irritability or adaptability, psychologist would say you are not describing their personality but rather their |
Temperament |
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According to Freud, The _______ Works off of the Pleasure Principle while the______ is often perceived as the executive director of your personality. |
Id, ego |
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You are shocked to hear that two of your co-workers who seemingly hated one another are now getting married. According to Freud, what defense mechanism best explains their prior Behavior? |
Reaction formation |
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4 year old Brandon has watched his father as he has mowed the lawn. This year, Brandon has asked for a lot more of his own for his birthday. Freud would say that Brandon is beginning the process of_____ as a way of resolving his oedipal conflict |
Identification |
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Your professor explains how all females have an inner masculine side that adds to their personality. This concept is known as a |
Animus |
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According to Adler, first born children with younger siblings tend to be |
Overachieving |
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Karen Horney study of one's personality focused on |
Anxiety during childhood |
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Candice believes that fate will help her find the right man with whom to live her life. According to Rotter she has a |
External locus of control |
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Keisha works hard at her job because she believes it will increase her chances for a promotion. According to Julian rotter Theory, however is an example of what he calls |
Expectancy |
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What is a primary advantage of the social cognitive view of Personality over the psychodynamic View? |
The social cognitive you have contacts that can be tested scientifically |
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Which perspective of psychology focuses on the role of each person's conscious life experiences and choices and personality development? |
Humanistic |
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An old motto of the US Army was, be all you can be. This concept fits well with Carl Rogers theory of |
Self-actualizing tendency |
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According to Rogers, a mismatch between the real and ideal self |
Can result and anxiety and neurotic behaviors |
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Dr. Hill is constantly late for meetings. She often arrives to her class 5 to 10 minutes late and leaves students waiting at her door during office hours for up to 30 minutes. Using the five Factor model, which dimension would show a very low score for dr. Hill? |
Consciousness |
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To explain an individual's personality, trait theorists would look to |
The constellation of personality characteristic possessed by the person |
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Studies of the hereditability of personality traits have found |
strong evidence to support some personality traits can be passed by genetics |
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As examples of what might be required as part of specific projective tests, the______ asks clients to look at the picture and tell a story while the _______ asks clients to report everything they see and the ambiguous figure |
Thematic Apperception Test, Rorschach |
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Which type of assessment would be the most reliable? |
Personality inventory |
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The____ is based on the five factor model while _____ is based on the work of Raymond Cattell. |
NEO PI-R; 16PF |
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Personality Neuroscience is an emerging field offering evidence of a possible relationship between various aspects of Personality with |
Brain structure and function |