Chapter 11 Quiz Psychology

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Bertha Pappenheim, who was referred to by the pseudonym _____ _

Anna O.

He argued that personality develops over our entire life, not only in the first few years.

B.F. Skinner

____ proposed that we demonstrate consistent behavior patterns because we have developed certain response tendencies

B.F. Skinner

__________ believed that environment was solely responsible for all behavior, including the enduring, consistent behavior patterns studied by personality theorists.

B.F. Skinner

______'s key contribution to learning theory was the idea that much learning is vicarious.

Bandura

_____ do not believe in biological determinism

Behaviorists

_____ view personality as significantly shaped by the reinforcements and consequences outside of the organism.

Behaviorists

The girls conflict in this phallic stage

Electra complex

In 1780, _____ ____, a German physician, proposed that the distances between bumps on the skull reveal a person's personality traits, character, and mental abilities

Franz Gall

_____ and his followers was the dominant theory of personality for the first half of the 20th century.

Freud

_____ attracted many followers who modified his ideas to create new theories about personality.

Freud

_____ believed we develop via a series of stages during childhood

Freud

______ was the first to systematically study and theorize the workings of the unconscious mind in the manner that we associate with modern psychology.

Freud

we sometimes say things that we don't intend to say by unintentionally substituting another word for the one we meant. This is called the

Freudian slip

______ built on Hippocrates's theory, suggesting that both diseases and personality differences could be explained by imbalances in the humors and that each person exhibits one of the four temperaments.

Galen

______ theorized that personality traits and human behaviors are based on four separate temperaments associated with four fluids ("humors") of the body

Hippocrates

____ ____agreed with Galen that everyone could be sorted into one of the four temperaments and that there was no overlap between the four categories

Immanuel Kant

Galen's theory was prevalent for over 1,000 years and continued to be popular through the ____ ______.

Middle Ages

_________ generally agreed with Freud that childhood experiences matter, but they reduced the emphasis on sex and focused more on the social environment and effects of culture on personality.

Non-Freudians

Failure to resolve the ____ _____ may result in fixation and development of a personality that might be described as vain and overly ambitious

Oedipus complex

involving a boy's desire for his mother and his urge to replace his father who is seen as a rival for the mother's attention

Oedipus complex

if a memory is too overwhelming to deal with, it might be _______and thus removed from conscious awareness

Repressed

____ _____ psychodynamic perspective of personality was the first comprehensive theory of personality

Sigmund Freud

Despite the fact the Freud never met Anna O., her story served as the basis for the 1895 book, ______ __ ______

Studies on Hysteria

______ suggested that a better description of personality could be achieved using two major axes: emotional/nonemotional and changeable/unchangeable.

Wundt

A person fixated in the ____ ____ personality is messy, careless, disorganized, and prone to emotional outbursts.

anal-expulsive

A person with a(n) ______-_____ personality would be considered a perfectionist

anal-retentive

Freud believed that feelings of _____ result from the ego's inability to mediate the conflict between the id and superego.

anxiety

_____ refers to anything that we do that may be rewarded or punished.

behavior

During repression, anxiety-caused memories from conciousness are _______.

blocked

A boy stuck in Oedipus complex is afraid his father will punish him for his feelings, so he experiences ____ _____.

castration anxiety

The second axis divided the _______ temperaments (choleric and sanguine) from the _______ ones (melancholic and phlegmatic)

changeable; unchangeable

_____ temperament (yellow bile from the liver)

choleric

______ person is passionate, ambitious, and bold

choleric

linguists today have found that slips of the tongue tend to occur when we are tired, nervous, or not at our optimal level of ______ functioning

cognitive

____ ____refer to all characteristics previously learned, including beliefs, expectations, and personality characteristics.

cognitive processes

the id and superego are in constant ____

conflict

only about one-tenth of our mind is _____

conscious

Freud believed that the ego seeks to restore balance through various protective measures known as _____ _____

defense mechanisms

Breuer _______ with Freud, which soon ended their work together.

disagreed

The ____ helps the id satisfy its desires in a realistic way.

ego

The _____ is the rational part of our personality

ego

the _____ is the part of our personality that is seen by others

ego

the _____'s job is to balance the demands of the id and superego in the context of reality; thus, it operates on what Freud called the "reality principle."

ego

Anna O. had been caring for her dying _____ when she began to experience symptoms such as partial paralysis, headaches, blurred vision, amnesia, and hallucinations

father

Parents who are ____ in toilet training can cause a child to become fixated at the anal stage, leading to the development of an anal-retentive personality.

harsh

a person who has a strong ego has a ____ personality

healthy

a person who is dominated by their ___ might be narcissistic and impulsive.

id

unconscious __ contains our most primitive drives or urges, and is present from birth

id

Which phallic period is not considered one of the stages?

latency

Sigmund Frued was a ____ ____ not a psychologist

medical doctor

______ person is reserved, anxious, and unhappy

melancholic

________ temperament (black bile from the kidneys)

melancholic

Given that sex was a taboo topic, Freud assumed that ______ ______ states (neuroses) stemmed from suppression of unconscious sexual and aggressive urges.

negative emotional

imbalances in the body system can lead to

neurosis

Bandura felt that this type of learning also plays a part in the development of our personality

observational

We can see the principles of reciprocal determinism at work in _______ _____.

observational learning

an adult who smokes, drinks, overeats, or bites her nails is fixated in the _____ stage of her psychosexual development

oral

In the ancient world, a ______ was a mask worn by an actor.

persona

personality comes from the Latin word ______

persona

______ factors determine which behaviors in the environment a person chooses to imitate

personal

refers to the long-standing traits and patterns that propel individuals to consistently think, feel, and behave in specific ways

personality

he theatrical mask was originally used to either represent or project a specific _____ _____of a character

personality trait

______ person is calm, reliable, and thoughtful

phlegmatic

________ temperament (white phlegm from the lungs)

phlegmatic

Freud believed that the id operates on what he called the "_____ ______," in which the id seeks immediate gratification.

pleasure principle

Parents who offer praise and rewards encourage positive results and can help children feel competent.

positive

Freud believe the the overuse of defense mechanisms may be ____

problematic

In _____, a person refuses to acknowledge her own unconscious feelings and instead sees those feelings in someone else.

projection

phrenology was very popular; however, it was soon discredited for lack of empirical support and has long been relegated to the status of ______.

pseudoscience

if the superego is weak or absent, a person might become a _____.

psychopath

In each _______ stage of development the child's pleasure-seeking urges, coming from the id, are focused on a different area of the body, called an erogenous zone

psychosexual

An example of _____ _____, Joe made fun of a homosexual peer while himself being attracted to males.

reaction formation

_______ _______ in which someone expresses feelings, thoughts, and behaviors opposite to their inclinations

reaction formation

_____ _____ is the cognitive processes, behavior, and context all interact, each factor influencing and being influenced by the others simultaneously

reciprocal determinism

An example of, ______ a four-year-old child who resents the arrival of a newborn sibling may act like a baby and revert to drinking out of a bottle.

regression

In ______, an individual acts much younger than their age

regression

Freud spent 2 years (1880-1882) treating Anna O. and discovered that allowing her to talk about her experiences seemed to bring some _____ of her symptoms.

relief

unacceptable urges and desires are kept in our unconscious through a process called ______.

repression

_______ person is joyful, eager, and optimistic

sanguine

_______ temperament (red blood from the heart)

sanguine

According to Freud, unconscious drives influenced by ____ and _____, along with childhood sexuality, are the forces that influence our personality

sex; aggression

Freud concluded that hysteria was the result of _____ _____ in childhood and that these traumatic experiences had been hidden from consciousness

sexual abuse

Freud suggested that slips of the tongue are actually _____ or ______ urges, accidentally slipping out of our unconscious.

sexual; aggressive

measuring these distances revealed the ____ ___ __ _____ areas underneath

sizes of the brain

emphasizes both learning and cognition as sources of individual differences in personality.

social-cognitive theory

The first axis separated _____ from _____ emotions (the melancholic and choleric temperaments from the phlegmatic and sanguine).

strong; weak

A person with a dominant _____ might be controlled by feelings of guilt and deny themselves even socially acceptable pleasures

superego

An overly dominant ______ might be seen in an over-controlled individual whose rational grasp on reality is so strong that they are unaware of their emotional needs, or, in a neurotic who is overly defensive

superego

The ______ develops as a child interacts with others, learning the social rules for right and wrong.

superego

the _____ tells us how we should behave

superego

Anna O. called his treatment the "____ _____"

talking cure

According to Frued, we are ____ use defense mechanisms.

unaware

When we use defense mechanisms, we are _____ that we are using them.

unaware

Our ________ refers to that mental activity of which we are unaware and are unable to access

unconscious

the individual's ______ mind uses ego defense mechanisms, unconscious protective behaviors that aim to reduce anxiety.

unconscious

Presented a social-cognitive theory

Albert Bandura

____ proposed the concept of reciprocal determinism

Albert Bandura

______ _____ agreed with Skinner that personality develops through learning but also disagreed with skinners strict approach

Albert Bandura


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