Personality Practice Questions

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

Give priority to group goals

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

Psychoanalysis

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

Personality Inventories

Albert Bandura proposed the social-cognitive perspective, which

Emphasizes interactions of traits with situations

Critics of humanistic psychology have suggested that this theory fails to appreciate 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?

If the person is answering the questions truthfully.

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

Reciprocal determinism

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

Repression

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

Self-actualization

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

Self-concept

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?

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?

Spotlight Effect

In Brad Bushman and Roy Baumeister's research; how did people with unrealistically high self-esteem act when criticized?

They became exceptionally aggressive

According to Carl Rogers, when we are in a good marriage, close family or intimate friendship, we are free to be spontaneous without fearing the loss of others' esteem. What did he call this?

Unconditional positive regard