personality
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