Psychology Personality Test
At what age does a personality become quiet stable?
30
Keeping a thought, feeling, or memory of an experience out of your consciousness
Regression
Forgetting that you were sexually abused as a child due to trauma and anxiety
Repression
Returning to an early stage of development
Repression
According to Freud the tendencies to be orderly, obstinate and stingy are formed during the _____ stage
Anal
According to Freud, the tendencies to be orderly, obstinate, and stingy are formed during the ______ stage.
Anal
Erica is described by those around her as cold, self-centered, and spiteful. Erica would score low on which of the dimensions of the Big 5 theory?
Agreeableness
Which of the following are criticisms of Freud's Theory of Personality?
All of the above
Japan and other Asian cultures place a greater emphasis ________ then cultures such as United States
Collectivism
Personality traits that are shared by most members of a particular culture are called.....
Common
People who score high on _______ dimension tend to perform well on tests, do well in school, and rarely have automobile accidents.
Conscientiousness
Region of the mind that includes all mental contents a person is aware of
Conscious
Self-protective strategies that keep unacceptable motives out of our awareness
Defense Mechanism
Denying that your Doctors diagnoses of cancer is correct- seek a second opinion
Denial
Refusing to accept that something exists ir happened
Denial
Taking out your impulses on a less threatening target
Displacement
yelling at your spouse after an argument with your boss
Displacement
This type of comparison is a defensive tendency to evaluate oneself with a comparison group whose troubles are more serious than ones own.
Downward Social Comparison
Which of the following statements pertains to character (as opposed to personality or temperament)
Eddie is a good guy. He is honest and dependable
Operates under the Reality Principle
Ego
In Freudian theory, the force that energizes the personality and underlies out efforts to survive, our sexual desires and our pleasure-seeking is known as....
Eros
Life force-represents our drive to live, prosper and reproduce
Eros
The dimensions of the "Big 5" factor model of Personality are...
Extroversion, agreeableness, conscientiousness, neuroticism, and openness to experience
According to Freud, _____ is an unresolved conflict or emotional hang-up caused by overindulgence or by frustration
Fixation
An unresolved conflict or emotional hang up caused by over-indulgence or by frustration
Fixation
A technique developed by Freud, patients said whatever first came to mind to gain access to their unconscious
Free Association
A verbal mistake that is thought to reveal a repressed belief, thought or emotion
Freudian Slip
According to Freud this stage begins with an upswing in sexual energies which activated all the unresolved conflicts of earlier years and results in the adolescent being filled with emotion and turmoil.
Genital
According to Freud, how might parents being overly demanding during toilet training affect a person's development?
He might become obsessed with control and order
_____ personality theory tends to view human nature as positively, while the _____ personality theory tends to view human nature negatively.
Humanistic/Psychoanalytic
A disease that many women suffered from during the Victorian Age
Hysteria
Operates under the pleasure principle
Id
What did Freud call the process through which children come to identify with their same sex parent
Identification
What did Freud call the process through which children come to identify with their same-sex parent.
Identification
This is the process through which people try to control the impressions other people form of them.
Impression Management
Rapid learning that occurs after birth that establishes a long-lasting behavioral response to a specific individual or object. Attachment to a parent or offspring
Imprinting
Concerning the cultural differences in self-esteem, Americans tend to emphasize ______ accomplishments, while the Chinese tend to emphasize _____ accomplishments
Individual; group
Focusing on the details of a funeral as opposed to the sadness and the grief
Intellectualization
Greg learns that he has cancer. He begins to learn everything he can about the illness, reading books, journals and the latest experimental research. Greg's response to his diagnosis is what type of defense mechanism?
Intellectualization
Thinking about something "logically" or coldly and without emotion
Intellectualization
During this stage psychosexual development is dormant
Latency
Freud believed that the pleasure seeking energies of the ___ changed to different erogenous zones during each stage.
Libido
Freud believed that the pleasure seeking energies of the ____ changed to different erogenous zones.
Libido
What energy did Freud believe was the driving force behind all behaviors
Libido
Concerning pure extroversion and pure introversion, it is most accurate to say ..........
Most people fall somewhere in between these extremes
Freud believed that boys identify with their fathers in order to resolve the _____ conflict.
Oedipus
Freud believed that boys identify with their fathers in order to resolve the ______ conflict
Oedipus
This term refers to Freud's idea that kids have an unconscious desire to posses their opposite sex parents
Oedipus Complex
This term refers to Freud's idea that kids have an unconscious desire to possess their opposite sex parent
Oedipus Complex
Steve struggled for years to quit chewing tobacco, but he finally succeeded. His fixation on chew has been replaced with biting sarcasm towards his freshman students. Which stage is Steve fixated in?
Oral
Tom, a professional baseball player has struggled for years to stop chewing tobacco, but he finally succeeded. His fixation on chew has been replaced with biting sarcasm towards his teammates. What stage is Tom fixated in?
Oral
Freudian psychosexual stages occur in the order
Oral, Anal, Phalliac, Latency, and Genital
Freudian psychosexual stages occur in this order
Oral, Anal, Phalliac, Latency, and Genital
According to Freud, the phases of psychosexual development establishes our______
Personality
The difference in persons exhibiting Type A and Type B behaviors would be of most interest to......
Personality Theorists
A style of personality defined by a group of related characteristics is called....
Personality Type
This stage of development usually occurs at the age of 1-3, the Ego starts to develop and the Id is somewhat controlled..
Phalliac
Though she portrays herself to a disciplinarian, Tonya feels a sense of envy and inferiority towards her male counterparts who never have discipline issues with their students. Tonya tries to make up for this inferiority by being very strict on the rules and claiming "I got balls". According to Freud she has this type of fixation.
Phalliac
According to Freud, the ________ mind included accessible memories, which can be recalled at will.
Pre-conscious
Placing unacceptable impulses and desired that you have on someone else
Projection
When loosing an argument, you state "You're stupid or you're gay"
Projection
The mind, mental life and personality as a whole
Psyche
A psychiatrist who explains pathological behavior as a conflict between underlying psychological forces is using the ______ model.
Psychoanalytic
This approach emphasizes internal, unconscious conflicts; the focus is on sexual and aggressive instincts that collide with cultural norms, Out internal (unconscious) desires and impulses are in conflict with the rules of our society.
Psychodynamic
Freuds 5 stages of development are known as
Psychosexual Stages
I was fired because I didn't kiss up to the boss, the truth- poor job performance
Rationalization
Doing the opposite of what you would really like to do
Reaction Formation
Your mom cant stand your new boufriend, but acts like she loves him
Reaction Formation
While jogging, Linda encounters a growling dog, She fears it might bite her
Reality Anxiety
The process by which the ego directs the indiciaul to express secual and aggressive impulses in socially acceptable ways is called....
Reality Principle
The process by which the ego directs the indicidial to ecpress suceual and aggresive impulses in socially acceptable way is called....
Reality Principle
Creating an acceptable but incorrect explanation of a situation
Rationalization
Which method is used to help asses personality structure and identify emotional problems and mental disorders.
Rorschach Inkblot Test
Traits that are superficial such as food preference, political opinions, or musical choice are called...
Secondary
All your ideas, perceptions, and feelings about who you are make up your ......
Self-Concept
When someone takes all the credit for success and blames external forces such as bad luck for failures they are exhibiting this theory on self-esteem.
Self-serving Attributional Bias
Which dream theorist believed that dreams are based on wish fulfillment with these unconscious desires and conflicts being disguised as dream symbols
Sigmund Freud
This theory explains how individuals evaluate their own opinions and desired by comparing themselves to others.
Social Comparison
Acting out unacceptable impulses in a socially acceptable way
Sublimation
Putting your aggressive impulses towards a career as a boxer
Sublimation
Contains the conscience and the ego ideal
Superego
You "put away your thoughts" by saying "i'm not going to think about that"
Suppression
Death force-represents our need to stay alive
Thanatos
Criticism of Freud's development theory have centered on...
The over emphasis on sexuality in personality development
Psychodynamic psychology focuses mainly on which of the following
Thoughts, impulses, and desires beyond the conscious being
George goes to a psychologist who will identify, classify, and analyze his stable enduring characteristics, Once these characteristics are identified and analyzed they can be used to predict future, The psychologist is utilizing the ______ approach
Trait
Region of the mind that is beyond awareness
Unconscious
Two main types of comparisons exist in social comparison. This type of comparison occurs when individuals compare themselves to others who are deemed socially above them in some way
Upward Social Comparison
The components of the "Looking Glass Self-Theory" include answers except for...
We develop ourselves through the image we see in the mirror
There are three main components of the Looking-Glass Self Theory. Which statement is false?
We rebel against what others perceive us to be
In the Big 5 theory of personality, the dimension of ____________ measures how friendly, nurturing, and caring a person is.
agreeableness
Melissa tends to be outgoing, assertive, and very sociable. Carl Jung would have classified her as......
an extrovert
Gregory tends to be shy and prefers to spend his free time at school alone in the library. Greg would be classified as as...
an introvert
Temperament refers to ....
hereditary emotional traits
In psychology the term ______ is defined as individuals unique and enduring pattern of thinking, feeling and behaving.
personality
The difference in persons exhibiting Type A and Type B behaviors would be most interest to.....
personality theorists
Freud used this term very broadly to refer to the many physical sources of pleasure
sex or erotic
Hereditary aspects of ones emotional nature are termed ......
temperament
According to Freud, anxiety disorders result from...
the use of rigid defense mechanisms to try and control forbidden impulses
Repression refers to ....
thoughts actively held out of awareness
According to Freud, dreams are very often a means of...
wish fulfillment
