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Personality tests which are developed with the underlying rationale based on psychoanalytic theory are called. |
projective tests |
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Psychoanalytic theory of personality depicts people as being shaped by: |
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? |
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: |
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: |
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: |
identify personality traits that tend to appear in clusters. |
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The anal stage begins in the: |
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: |
humanism. |
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Trait theories of personality provide psychologists with: |
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: |
superego |
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Why was Freud's view of personality development so shocking? |
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: |
introversion and extroversion |
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Self-efficacy influences |
what activities we choose to become involved in. the amount of effort we put into a particular activity *both a and b |
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According to Kleinmuntz (1982), the Rorschach test considered in isolation has: |
little or no predictive value. |
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According to Freud the ego develops: |
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: |
Rorschach Inkblot Test. |
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The correct order of Freud's stages of psychosexual development are: |
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: |
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. |
the interview |
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An important advantage of the interview method of studying personality is its: |
flexibility. |