personality

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Which personality inventory is based on the five-factor model?

NEO-PI

What did Abraham Maslow call the process of fulfilling our potential?

Self-actualization

Our _____ consists of all the thoughts and feelings we have in response to the question, "Who am I?"

Self-concept

For Bandura, one of the most important personal variables in determining personality is ______

Self-efficacy

The enduring characteristics with which people are born, such as irritability or adaptability, are known collectively as _______

Temperament

Our self-focused perspective may motivate us, but it can also lead us to presume too readily that others are noticing and evaluating us. This is called

The spotlight effect

According to Carl Rogers, when we are in a good marriage, a close family, or an intimate friendship, we are free to be spontaneous without fearing the loss of others' esteem. He called the accepting attitude that enables this freedom

Unconditioned positive regard

Critics of humanistic psychology have suggested that this theory fails to appreciate the reality of our human capacity for

evil

According to Rogers, anxiety and neurotic behavior result from _______

A mismatch between the real self and the ideal self

Which theorists believed that traits exist as part of the nervous system?

Allport

In which psychosexual stage would fixation most likely result in a person who is excessively neat and fussy?

Anal

Mr. Phillips is constantly late for his classes, leaving students waiting in the hallway outside his door for nearly an hour at times. Which dimension of the five-factor model would show a very low score for Mr. Phillips?

Conscientiousness

According to Freud, which structure of the personality functions on the reality principle?

Ego

Which of Freud's parts of personality is most like a director?

Ego

Which psychologist talked about neurotic personalities as moving toward people, moving against people, or moving away from people

Horney

Psychologists who believe that people grow and develop throughout their lives and that people are inherently good are

Humanists

According to Freud, the Oedipal conflict ends when a child takes on the values and behaviors of the same sex parent in a process called

Identification

People given little control over their world in prisons, factories, schools and nursing homes experience

Learned helplessness

Monik is generally calm person who stays relaxed even in stressful situations. She does not have a history of mental health problems. On the Big Five Inventory, Monik would probably score very low on ______

Neuroticism

According to Freud, activities such as overeating and talking too much stem from fixation in the ________

Oral stage

Questionnaires covering a wide range of feelings and behaviors designed to assess several traits at once are called

Personality inventories

A psychologists who explains pathological behavior as a conflict between underlying psychological forces is using the ______ model

Psychoanalytic

Children's TV-viewing habits (past behavior) influence their viewing preferences (internal personal factor), which influence how television (environmental factor) affects their current behavior. This is an example of

Reciprocal determinism

According to Sigmund Freud, which defense mechanism buries threatening or upsetting events outside of consciousness?

Repression

Athletes who often privately credit their victories to their own prowess, and their losses to bad breaks, lousy officiating, or the other team's exceptional performance are exhibiting

the self-serving bias


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