Personality Chapter for General Psychology

Personality Chapter

Someone insults you and you spend the next two hours imagining the things you could have (or should have) said to humiliate them. According to Freud, you are engaging in free association.

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True

False

The BEST kind of personality test is one that is _______.

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a. reliable, but not necessarily valid

b. valid, but not necessarily reliable

c. neither reliable nor valid

d. both valid and reliable

Jenny is 15 years old. She is capable of mature sexuality, is able to postpone gratification, and handle responsibility. According to Freud, she is in the phallic stage.

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True

False

Johnny is 8 years old. He likes to play with other little boys, but has no interest in playing with little girls. According to Freud, he is in the latency stage.

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True

False

According to Hippocrates, if my temper is out of control, I need to check the balance of my green bile.

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True

False

According to Hippocrates, too much phlegm may make me sluggish and apathetic.

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True

False

Adler called the individual’s attempts to overcome physical weaknesses ________.

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a. Reciprocity

b. Fictional finalism

c. Compensation

d. Reaction formation

The Rorschach personality test relies on a subject telling stories based on cards depicting human figures in various poses?

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True

False

Freud believed that personality is formed around ________ structures.

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a. five

b. two

c. three

d. four

“Relative” is one of the three basic characteristics of personality as presented in your lecture notes.

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True

False

Without using the ego, one way the id can obtain gratification is through the reality principle.

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True

False

For Freud, the seething cauldron of unconscious urges and desires continuously seeking expression is the ego.

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True

False

For both Bandura and Rotter, a person’s expectancies become a critical part of his or her ________.

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a. explanatory style

b. self-actualizing tendency

c. ideal self

d. persona

For Horney, self-actualization is a stronger motivating force than is sex

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True

False

According to your text, personality is stable.

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True

False

Adler felt that some people become so fixated on their feelings of inadequacy that they develop ________.

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a. neurotic trends

b. an archetype

c. a fixation

d. an inferiority complex

According to Freud, a girl’s sexual attachment to her father and jealousy of her mother is called ________.

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a. the Electra complex

b. the Oedipus complex

c. countertransference

d. transference

For Freud, the term “sexual instinct” refers to ________.

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a. erotic sexuality

b. the personal unconscious

c. any form of pleasure

d. childhood experiences

According to Jung, people who base their actions on their perceptions, senses, and intuition are ________.

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a. introverts

b. irrational individuals

c. extraverts

d. rational individuals

Terry Francis, a world famous psychologist, argues that behavior is the end product of a variety of some conscious and mostly unconscious forces interacting within a person’s mind. Terry Francis is most likely a behavioral psychologist

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True

False

Collective memories of experiences people have had in common since prehistoric times, such as mothers, heroes, or villains are called ________ by Carl Jung

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a. archetypes

b. personas

c. parasymbols

d. animas

The best known and most influential psychodynamic theorist is ________.

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a. Watson

b. Maslow

c. Skinner

d. Freud