Chapter 13 Flashcards
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?
(C) Personality
According to Freud, the __________ mind was the most important determining factor in human behavior and personality.
(D) Unconscious
According to Freud, which part of the personality is totally buried within each individual?
(C) id
The awakening of sexual curiosity and interest in the genitals is the beginning of what Freud termed the
(C) Phallic Stage
Many of Tao’s friends like to dress up on Halloween as devils, vampires, and zombies. According to Carl Jung’s theory, what archetype is being expressed?
(D) Shadow
Which neo-Freudian believed personality was mostly a product of dealing with anxieties during childhood?
(A) Karen Horney
According to the behavioral theory, personality primarily consists of
(B) Learned Responses
Albert Bandura considers __________ as a person’s expectancy of how effective his or her efforts to accomplish a goal will be in any particular circumstance.
(D) Self-efficacy
You have walked in late to class, and your psychology professor is explains how one personality theorist sees 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(n)
(C) Internal locus of control
In Roger’s viewpoint, what is the striving to fulfill innate capacities and needs called?
(B) Self-actualizing tendency
What did Carl Rogers mean by the term “fully functioning person”?
(C) 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.
Which of the following statements concerning the self-concept is false?
(A) It is based on what people are told by others.
Karen’s parents told her that they expected her to become a doctor, like her father and grand father before her. They told her hat if she chose any other career, they would no longer support her or respect her choice. According to Rogers, Karen’s parents were giving her
(B) Conditional positive regard
Trait theories are less concerned with _____________ and more concerned with ____________
(A) Changing personality; predicting personality
A colleague at work is asked to describe you to the new manager. Most likely, the traits they will use in their description are examples of
(D) Surface Traits
Cattell’s research and use of factor analysis essentially scaled down many, many different ways of describing aspect of personality into ___________ source traits
(B) 16
In the Big Five theory of personality, “E” stands for
(D) Extraversion
What is a major shortcoming in the field of behavioral genetics in terms of their studies on human personality trait?
(A) Behavior geneticist are unable to conduct controlled research studies on human subjects.
Which of the following trains or characteristics were NOT found to be more similar in identical twins when compared to fraternal twins in Minnesota twin study?
(D) Empathy
What, if anything, have adoption studies taught us regarding the relationship between heredity and personality?
(B) Adoption studies have confirmed that personality can be strongly influenced by genetics.
Several studies have found nearly a _______ percent rate of heritability across several cultures with respect to the five-factor model of personality
(D) 50
Which of the following is an example of a halo effect?
(A) Terrance unknowingly tends to rate his new client’s behavior slightly higher during testing after noticing the client is wearing a class ring form his own alma mater.
Frequency counts and rating scales are especially helpful in assessing
(B) Observable behaviors
