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If you are asked to describe your best friends by explaining how they act, typically feel, and what they think about, you would be describing their

Personality

According to Freud, the______ mind was the most important determining factor in human behavior and personality.

Unconscious

According to Freud comma which part of the personality is totally buried within each individual?

ID

The waking of sexual curiosity and interest in the genitals is the beginning of what Freud termed the

Phallic stage

Many of Kyle's friends like to a dress up on Halloween as Devils, vampires, and zombies. According to Carl Jung Theory, what archetype is being expressed?

Shadow

Which neo-freudian believed personality was mostly a product of dealing with anxieties during childhood?

Karen Horney

According to the behavioral Theory, personality primarily consist of

Learned responses

Albert bandura considers______ as a person's expectancy of how effective his or her effort to accomplish a goal will be in a particular circumstance

Self-efficacy

You have walked in late to class and your psychology Professor is explaining how one personality theorist C personality as a relatively stable set of potential responses to various situations. You know immediately that your professor is talking about the theories of

Julian rotter

Nina appreciates compliments about her new photography business but really values constructive criticism, as she can then address particular issues. According to Julian rotter, Nina has a

Internal locus of control

What did Carl Rogers mean by the term fully functioning person?

Someone who is experiencing a match between his or her real and ideal self, and who is also trusting of their innermost intuitions and urges

Trait theories are less concerned with _____and more concerned with______

Changing personality, predicting personality

A colleague at work is asked to describe you to the new manager. Most likely, the trees they will use in the description are examples of

Surface traits

Cattell's research and use of factor analysis essentially scaled-down many, many different ways of describing aspects of personality into_____ source traits

16

In the big five Theory of Personality, E stands for

Extraversion

What is a major shortcoming in the field of behavioral genetics in terms of their studies on human personality traits?

Behavioral genetics are unable to conduct controlled research studies on human subjects

What, if anything, have adoptions studies taught us regarding the relationship between heredity and personality?

Adoption Studies have confirmed that personality can be strongly influenced by genetics

Which of the following is an example of a halo effect?

Tarence unkowingly tends to write his new clients Behavior slightly higher during testing after noticing the client is wearing a class ring from his own alma mater

Frequency counts and rating scales are especially helpful in assessing

Observable behaviors

Which of the following personality assessments might be best suited for objectively identifying abnormal patterns of behavior or thinking?

MMPI-2

What is the function of validity scale?

To determine if a person is giving an accurate response

If you are describing characteristics of your child such as irritability or adaptability, psychologist would say you are not describing their personality but rather their

Temperament

According to Freud, The _______ Works off of the Pleasure Principle while the______ is often perceived as the executive director of your personality.

Id, ego

You are shocked to hear that two of your co-workers who seemingly hated one another are now getting married. According to Freud, what defense mechanism best explains their prior Behavior?

Reaction formation

4 year old Brandon has watched his father as he has mowed the lawn. This year, Brandon has asked for a lot more of his own for his birthday. Freud would say that Brandon is beginning the process of_____ as a way of resolving his oedipal conflict

Identification

Your professor explains how all females have an inner masculine side that adds to their personality. This concept is known as a

Animus

According to Adler, first born children with younger siblings tend to be

Overachieving

Karen Horney study of one's personality focused on

Anxiety during childhood

Candice believes that fate will help her find the right man with whom to live her life. According to Rotter she has a

External locus of control

Keisha works hard at her job because she believes it will increase her chances for a promotion. According to Julian rotter Theory, however is an example of what he calls

Expectancy

What is a primary advantage of the social cognitive view of Personality over the psychodynamic View?

The social cognitive you have contacts that can be tested scientifically

Which perspective of psychology focuses on the role of each person's conscious life experiences and choices and personality development?

Humanistic

An old motto of the US Army was, be all you can be. This concept fits well with Carl Rogers theory of

Self-actualizing tendency

According to Rogers, a mismatch between the real and ideal self

Can result and anxiety and neurotic behaviors

Dr. Hill is constantly late for meetings. She often arrives to her class 5 to 10 minutes late and leaves students waiting at her door during office hours for up to 30 minutes. Using the five Factor model, which dimension would show a very low score for dr. Hill?

Consciousness

To explain an individual's personality, trait theorists would look to

The constellation of personality characteristic possessed by the person

Studies of the hereditability of personality traits have found

strong evidence to support some personality traits can be passed by genetics

As examples of what might be required as part of specific projective tests, the______ asks clients to look at the picture and tell a story while the _______ asks clients to report everything they see and the ambiguous figure

Thematic Apperception Test, Rorschach

Which type of assessment would be the most reliable?

Personality inventory

The____ is based on the five factor model while _____ is based on the work of Raymond Cattell.

NEO PI-R; 16PF

Personality Neuroscience is an emerging field offering evidence of a possible relationship between various aspects of Personality with

Brain structure and function