Personality Review

Question 1

Characteristic patterns of thinking, feeling, and acting

Answer 1

Personality

Question 2

Personality emerges from unconscious motives and unresolved conflicts

Answer 2

Sigmund Freud

Question 3

Interpret underlying unconscious motives and conflicts

Answer 3

Psychoanalysis

Question 4

focus less on negative/sexual experiences

Answer 4

Psychodynamic Perspective

Question 5

Exploring unconscious to bring to consciousness

Answer 5

Free Association

Question 6

When unconscious becomes conscious

Answer 6

Preconscious

Question 7

Unacceptable thoughts, wishes, feelings and memories

Answer 7

Unconscious

Question 8

Shoulder devil, what we want to do, pleasure principle

Answer 8

Id

Question 9

shoulder angel, what you should do, morality principle

Answer 9

Superego

Question 10

Kronk, what you can do

Answer 10

Ego

Question 11

Id figuring things out

Answer 11

Freud’s Psychosexual Stages

Question 12

chewing, biting, sucking

Answer 12

Oral Stage

Question 13

potty training

Answer 13

Anal Stage

Question 14

body anatomy

Answer 14

Phallic Stage

Question 15

gender identity

Answer 15

Latency Stage

Question 16

dating/relationships

Answer 16

Genital Stage

Question 17

Ego’s way of protecting us

Answer 17

Defense Mechanisms

Question 18

block away as if it doesn’t exist
Homework, tests, chores

Answer 18

Repression

Question 19

Go back to more comfortable states
Biting nails, phone as pacifier, fetal position

Answer 19

Regression

Question 20

Refuse to accept or admit things
Homework, fights, punishments

Answer 20

Denial

Question 21

Think/feel one way, do the opposite

Answer 21

Reaction Formation

Question 22

Your own thoughts/feelings put on others
Call someone out, crying

Answer 22

Projection

Question 23

justify things

Answer 23

Rationalization

Question 24

Unacceptable thought/feelings into something more acceptable

Answer 24

Displacement

Question 25

Alfred Adler was an Austrian medical doctor, and psychotherapist. Adler's theory suggested that every person has a sense of inferiority.

Answer 25

Alfred Adler (Inferiority Complex)

Question 26

Carl Gustav Jung was a Swiss psychiatrist and psychoanalyst. He believed that human beings are connected to each other and their ancestors through a shared set of experiences.

Answer 26

Carl Jung (Collective Unconscious)

Question 27

Was a German psychoanalyst. She found that psychoanalysis negatively biased toward women and believed cultural variables are the foundation of personality development

Answer 27

Karen Horney

Question 28

Use ambiguous stimuli to trigger inner thoughts/ feelings

Answer 28

Projective Tests

Question 29

Show them a picture they tell a story

Answer 29

Thematic Apperception Test (TAT)

Question 30

Show inkblot image explain what they see

Answer 30

Rorschach Inkblot Test

Question 31

Perspective that focuses on the study of conscious experience (capacity for personal growth)

Answer 31

Humanistic Psychology

Question 32

Developing the hierarchy of needs

Answer 32

Abraham Maslow (Hierarchy of Needs)

Question 33

Basic physical and psychological needs are met

Answer 33

Self Actualization

Question 34

Notion of unconditional positive regard

Answer 34

Carl Rogers

Question 35

Attitude of total empathy in human growth

Answer 35

Unconditional Positive Regard

Question 36

Consistent aspects of personality

Answer 36

Traits

Question 37

Characteristic pattern of thinking

Answer 37

Personality

Question 38

Shows how the same person can be generous in one situation and self centered in another situation

Answer 38

Social Cognitive Perspective

Question 39

Identified over 18,000 ways to describe people

Answer 39

Gordon Allport (Trait Theory)

Question 40

Believed there are 16 human traits

Answer 40

Raymond Cattell (Factor Analysis)

Question 41

Coined the terms introvert and extravert

Answer 41

Hans Eysenck (Biological Dimensions)

Question 42

Endpoints, careful, and disciplined or disorganized, careless, and impulsive

Answer 42

Conscientiousness

Question 43

Endpoints, soft-hearted, trusting, and helpful or ruthless, suspicious, and uncooperative

Answer 43

Agreeableness

Question 44

Endpoints, calm, secure, and self-satisfied or anxious, insecure, and self-pity

Answer 44

Neuroticism (emotional stability)

Question 45

Endpoints, imaginative, preference of variety, and independent or practical, preference for route, and conforming

Answer 45

Openness

Question 46

Endpoints, sociable, fun-loving, affectionate or retiring, sober, reserved

Answer 46

Extraversion

Question 47

American scientist who developed the social-cognitive perspective. Believed that the way to understand personality is to consider thoughts before, during and after an event.

Answer 47

Albert Bandura

Question 48

Mutual influences between personality and environmental factors

Answer 48

Reciprocal Determinism

Question 49

Perception that chance, or forces beyond your control determine your fate

Answer 49

External Locus of Control

Question 50

Perception that you control your own fate

Answer 50

Internal Locus of Control

Question 51

Feeling helpless to avoid feeling negative situations (Martin Seligman gained the theory by shocking dogs)

Answer 51

Martin Seligman (Learned Helplessness)

Question 52

The idea of what makes life worth living

Answer 52

Positive Psychology