AP Psych Unit 10: Review

Someone from a collectivist culture is more likely to do what?

Give priority to group goals

What did Sigmond Freud call his theory of personality and the associated treatment techniques?

Psychoanalysis

Which term describes questionnaires that cover a wide range of feelings and behaviors and are designed to assess several traits?

Personality Inventories

Critics of humanistic psychology have suggested that this theory fails to appreciated the reality of our human capacity for which of the following?

Evil

A question on the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI) such as "I get angry sometimes" is included to determine what about the test-taker

It the person is answering the questions truthfully

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

Reciprocal Determinism

According to Sigmund Freud, which of the following defense mechanisms buries threatening or upsetting events in the unconscious?

Repression

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

Self-actualization

Which term is defined as all the thoughts and feeling we have in response to the question, "Who am I?"

Self-concept

In Brad Bushman and Roy Baumeister's research, how did people with unrealistically high self-esteem react when they were criticized?

The became exceptionally aggressive

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

The self-serving bias

Amy was sure everyone noticed how nervous she was when she spoke in front of the entire school, but later no one that she talked to mentioned it. What is the term for the belief that others are always noticing and evaluating us more than they really are?

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 other's esteem. What did he call this accepting attitude?

Unconditional positive regard

Albert Bandura proposed the social-cognitive perspective, which

emphasizes the interaction of our traits with our situations.