Personality Unit Test

Question 1

a. Displacement
b. Projection
c. Reaction-Formation
d. Sublimation

Answer 1

a. Involves taking out our frustrations, feelings, and impulses on people or objects that are less threatening
b. Involves taking our own unacceptable qualities or feelings and ascribing them to other people
c. Reduces anxiety by taking up the opposite feeling, impulse, or behavior
d. Taking unacceptable impulses and turning them into socially valued motives/activities

Question 2

Carl Jung

Answer 2

thought all people shared a collective unconscious. Common collection of images that we have gained together as human beings from our ancestral & evolutionary past

Question 3

Alfred Adler

Answer 3

People compensate for inferiority complexes based on inadequacies

Question 4

Karen Horney

Answer 4

feminist perspective to psychoanalytic theory

Question 5

Raymond Cattell’s 16 Traits

Answer 5

16 traits are the source of all human personality

Question 6

Factor analysis

Answer 6

he identified closely related terms and eventually reduced his list to just 16 key personality traits

Question 7

Openness

Answer 7

to Experience, tendency to appreciate new art, ideas, values, feelings and behaviors
they want to try new things and think outside of the box

Question 8

Conscientiousness

Answer 8

tendency to be careful, on-time for appointments, to follow rules, and to be hardworking
work within the rules, and plan and organize effectively

Question 9

Extraversion

Answer 9

tendency to be talkative, sociable, and to enjoy others

Question 10

Agreeableness

Answer 10

tendency to agree and go along with others rather than to assert one’s own opinions & choices

Question 11

Neuroticism

Answer 11

tendency to frequently experience negative emotions
encompasses one’s emotional stability and general temper (high in neuroticism = emotionally unstable + unstable temperament)

Question 12

Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory-2 (MMPI-2)

Answer 12

The most widely used and researched clinical assessment tool used by mental health professionals to help diagnose mental health disorders

Question 13

Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI)

Answer 13

Self-report inventory designed to identify a person’s personality type, strengths, and preferences
(-) Studies have found that the reliability and validity of the instrument have not been adequately demonstrated

Question 14

Social Cognitive Perspective

Answer 14

theory that maintains personality both shapes and is shaped by environment

Question 15

Reciprocal Determinism

Answer 15

idea from the social cognitive perspective that thoughts, feelings, beliefs, and environment all influence each other in determining a person’s actions in a given situation