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According to Hans Eysenck and Sybil Eysenck, variations in human personality can be reduced to _____ dimensions.

2-3

_____ is NOT one of the Big Five personality factors.

Stability

The Big Five personality factor _____ involves the following endpoints: organized versus disorganized and careful versus careless.

conscientiousness

Alejandro was reprimanded for an accounting error by his boss in front of his co-workers. Alejandro gets home from his job and yells at his wife for not having dinner ready. His wife then yells at the children for leaving their toys all over the house. This BEST illustrates the use of a defense mechanism known as _____.

displacement

Eli has always been an extravert. There is some evidence that people like Eli seek stimulation because their normal brain arousal is relatively low. For example, extraverts:

exhibit less activity in a frontal lobe area involved in behavior inhibition.

The _____ perspective on personality arose as a reaction against the negativism of the psychoanalytic perspective and the mechanical determinism of behaviorism.

humanistic

Ashley feels that she has reached her full potential as a physician. According to Maslow, Ashley:

is self-actualized.

Dr. Wayne states that the task of the personality psychologist is to describe the consistent and persistent patterns of behavior that distinguish one person from another. Dr. Wayne is MOST likely a _____ theorist of personality.

trait