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