Psychology Final Test 14

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Personality tests which are developed with the underlying rationale based on psychoanalytic theory are called.

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projective tests

Front 2

Psychoanalytic theory of personality depicts people as being shaped by:

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an ongoing conflict between sex, aggression, and social pressures

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Criticisms of the trait approach include all but which of the following?

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Trait theories tell us how traits are learned and how they can be modified but do not describe personality

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Fixation is:

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an arrest in development at an early stage of psychosexual development

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Trait theories of personality have the primary focus or goal to:

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attempt to identify specific dimensions that are associated with different personalities.

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The nomothetic approach to personality places people in groups in an attempt to:

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identify personality traits that tend to appear in clusters.

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The anal stage begins in the:

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second year of life

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The theoretical perspective that argues that we must focus on the uniqueness of each individual if we are to understand human personality is:

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humanism.

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Trait theories of personality provide psychologists with:

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methods for measuring basic characteristic of individuals

a tool that can be used to explain behavioral consistencies

*a and c

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According to psychoanalytic theory, a person who is conservative, strict, and moralistic is being influenced more by the demands of the:

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superego

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Why was Freud's view of personality development so shocking?

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The established line of thought was that children were asexual; he countered this idea and claimed that children were aware of sexual pleasure.

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An important contribution to psychology by Jung is the concept of:

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introversion and extroversion

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Self-efficacy influences

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what activities we choose to become involved in.

the amount of effort we put into a particular activity

*both a and b

Front 14

According to Kleinmuntz (1982), the Rorschach test considered in isolation has:

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little or no predictive value.

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According to Freud the ego develops:

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as a result of the interaction of the id and the real world

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A commonly used projective test in which the subject is asked to examine inkblots and state what they look like or what they bring to mind is the:

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Rorschach Inkblot Test.

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The correct order of Freud's stages of psychosexual development are:

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oral, anal, phallic, latency, genital

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Kathy is self-centered, self-indulgent, and basically an antisocial person. Freud would diagnose Kathy's problem as:

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having a weak, ill-defined superego.

having a strong, uncontrollable id.

*both a and b.

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Freud relied heavily on ________ in his studies of personality.

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the interview

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An important advantage of the interview method of studying personality is its:

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flexibility.