U7 P2 Test Review

Question 1

Which trait from the Big Five refers to emotional instability?

Answer 1

Neuroticism

Question 2

Which personality test was intended to test for mental disorders?

Answer 2

Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI)

Question 3

What was Carl Jung’s theory related to memory?

Answer 3

Collective unconscious

Question 4

Which principle does id operate on?

Answer 4

Pleasure principle

Question 5

What area of psychology are projective personality tests from?

Answer 5

Psychoanalytic theory

Question 6

What is being confident in our abilities?

Answer 6

Self-efficacy

Question 7

What is the “16 Personalities” personality test looking for?

Answer 7

Traits

Question 8

Who applied humanistic psychology to therapy?

Answer 8

Carl Rogers

Question 9

What did Carl Rogers advocate for when it comes to clients?

Answer 9

Unconditional positive regard

Question 10

What does a growth promoting environment include according to Carl Rogers?

Answer 10

genuineness, acceptance, empathy

Question 11

What are some concerns with humanist theory?

Answer 11

You cannot always keep Unconditional Positive Regard (accountability issues)

Question 12

What personality exam is “16 Personalities” based on?

Answer 12

Meyers-Briggs personality test

Question 13

What did Karen Horney think?

Answer 13

Womb envy, women do not have weak superegos

Question 14

What did Alfred Adler think people’s driving force is instead of sex?

Answer 14

Inferiority complex

Question 15

What theory by Albert Bandura describes the interaction of people’s personality and their environment?

Answer 15

Reciprocal determinism

Question 16

What theories by Freud states that children fall in love with the parent of the opposite of sex?

Answer 16

Oedipus, Electra complex (Greek mythology)

Question 17

What fixation do people who always have things in their mouth have?

Answer 17

Oral fixation

Question 18

How did Neo-Freudians differ from Freud?

Answer 18

A. Not interested in fixation on sex
B. agree with experiences of childhood and unconscious

Question 19

Where does the id focus its pleasure-seeking energies?

Answer 19

Erogenous zones

Question 20

What are Freud’s psychosexual stages?

Answer 20

Oral, anal, phallic, latent, genital

Question 21

What are the Big Five?

Answer 21

CANOE (conscientious, agreeableness, neuroticism, openness, extraversion)

Question 22

What is the therapy method where people talk about whatever comes to mind?

Answer 22

Free association

Question 23

What was Bandura’s theory about personality?

Answer 23

Social-cognitive theory

Question 24

Which theory doesn’t like to address that some behaviors are evil or antisocial?

Answer 24

Humanist

Question 25

Why would somebody yell at their kids after getting fired from their job?

Answer 25

Displacement

Question 26

What are the parts of dreams?

Answer 26

Manifest (content), latent (meaning)

Question 27

Why would somebody forget a traumatic experience?

Answer 27

Repression

Question 28

Why would somebody gossip about how someone is a gossiper?

Answer 28

Projection

Question 29

What fixation do orderly people have?

Answer 29

Anal fixation

Question 30

What are the parts of personality?

Answer 30

a. Id: pleasure, limbic system b. Ego: executive c. Superego: moral, frontal cortex

Question 31

How do nature and nurture affect personality?

Answer 31

Genes give traits and environments effect what is expressed?

Question 32

What was the highest goal on Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs?

Answer 32

Self-actualization

Question 33

What's an archetype?

Answer 33

General symbol and story line because of collective unconscious

Question 34

Why would someone flunk out of college and then live in their mom's basement and play video games?

Answer 34

Regression

Question 35

Why would someone say, "I drink because my family and life are stressful."?

Answer 35

Rationalization

Question 36

Why would someone channel a socially unacceptable fascination into a socially acceptable thing?

Answer 36

Sublimation

Question 37

Who identified introversion vs. extroversion?

Answer 37

Carl Jung

Question 38

Why would someone say they are not a bad person even if they are?

Answer 38

Denial

Question 39

Why would a mother who hates her child and feels uncomfortable about it become an overindulgent mother?

Answer 39

Reaction formation

Question 40

What are the problems projective personality exams (inkblot)?

Answer 40

a. Valid: is it testing what is says it is testing? b. Reliable: Does it get consistent results?

Question 41

What is the projective technique where people look at ambiguous drawings and describe what they think it means?

Answer 41

a. Thematic Apperception Test (TAT)