Psychology ch 11

Most researcher's using factor analysis agree that ____ are the core traits of personality.

Conscientiousness, Agreeableness, Neuroticism, Openness to Experience, and Extraversion.

Because Projective tests are based on ______, they are a controversial practice in psychology.

Interpretation of the scorer.

According to the trait approach to personality, an individual's trait:

Is relatively consistent across a variety of settings.

One problem with the psychosexual stage theory is that it:

offers after-the-fact complex explanations rather than testable predictions.

________ largely governs the dynamics among the ID, Ego, and Superego.

Anxiety.

Fixations can occur throughout the psychosexual stages as proposed by Freud because of:

Either deprivation or overindulgence in pleasurable experience at a given stage.

People with highly reactive behavioral systems are likely to be:

Extraverts

Research suggests that when two siblings have similar personalities, this similarity is thought to be the result of:

Genetics.

Charles, a senior in high school, unknowingly made the decision to attend the College of Charleston over the University of South Carolina because of:

Implicit Egotism.

Research has demonstrated that introverts typically respond _____ to a variety of stimuli as compared to extraverts.

More Strongly.

Lisa decided as a young age that if she was nice to people, they would be nice to her, This is an example of:

Outcome Expectancies.

The two major kinds of measures used by psychologists to measure personality are:

Personality inventories and projective techniques.

The ID operates according to the ____ principle, and the ego is regulated by the _____ principle.

Pleasure & Reality.

Sigmund is very interested in his neighbor Sally but has much anxiety about his attraction to her since his friends would not approve. Every time he sees her he acts very rude and says mean things to her despite his intense attraction to her. This is an example of what type of defense mechanism?

Reaction Formation.

The _____ is pivotal for personality according to the humanistic approach:

Self-Actualizing Tendency.

When people define themselves according to personality traits, they are using _____ to organize their self-concept.

Self-Schemas.

When an athlete wins a competition, she is likely to stress her hard work and physical talents. When she loses a competition, she is likely to emphasize the quality of her competition. This illustrates the:

Self-Serving Bias.

Activities such as football and other contact sports are a form of _____ according to the psychodynamic approach and allow unconscious wishes and desires to be transformed into socially acceptable behaviors.

Sublimation.

The five-factor structure of personality is _____ in that it _____ across all cultures and languages.

Universal; Remains Constant.

The following statement is false about gender differences in personality.

Women have slightly higher self-esteems that men.

The Rorschach Inkblot Test is an example of:

a projective technique.

Narcissism is:

a trait that reflects a grandiose view of the self combined with a tendency to seek admiration from and exploit other.

Personality is:

an individual's style of responding, thinking and feeling.

Researchers interested in investigating the prior events that have shaped how we behave, think, and feel are probably most interested in __________personality.

explaining

Biological factors have shown to be _____ in determining personality.

important.

By having people make up stories about different pictures they see, researchers attempt to:

infer the underlying motives, concerns, and views about the world of the responder.

Shelby attends class, takes notes, reads her textbook, and reviews her work because she believes that it is up to her to do well in class and that she has the resources to do well. Shelby has a(n) _____ locus of control.

internal.

According to existentialists, personality is largely the result of:

secure-providing defense mechanisms.

Proponents of the humanistic approach focused on the potential to ___ as the core of what makes us human and unique among all other animals.

show personal growth.

This component of the mind was described at the most primitive, serving as the center of innate drives and free from restraints of the external world:

the ID.

The _____ approach to personality tries to identify main themes in the adjectives used to describe a person's personality.

trait.