Personality

Psychology

Personality is thought to be ________.

long term, stable and not easily changed

The long-standing traits and patterns that propel individuals to consistently think, feel, and behave in specific ways are known as ________.

personality

________ is credited with the first comprehensive theory of personality.

Freud

An early science that tried to correlate personality with measurements of parts of a person’s skull is known as ________.

Phrenology

The id operates on the ________ principle.

Pleasure (instant is differ from Immediate)

The ego defense mechanism in which a person who is confronted with anxiety returns to a more immature behavioral stage is called ________.

regression

The Oedipus complex occurs in the ________ stage of psychosexual development.

Phallic

The universal bank of ideas, images, and concepts that have been passed down through the generations from our ancestors refers to ________.

collective unconscious

Self-regulation is also known as ________.

Will power

Your level of confidence in your own abilities is known as ________.

self-efficacy

Jane believes that she got a bad grade on her psychology paper because her professor doesn’t like her. Jane most likely has an _______ locus of control.

External

Self-concept refers to ________.

all of our thoughts and feelings about ourselves

The idea that people’s ideas about themselves should match their actions is called ________.

Congruence

The way a person reacts to the world, starting when they are very young, including the person’s activity level is known as ________.

temperament

Brianna is 18 months old. She cries frequently, is hard to soothe, and wakes frequently during the night. According to Thomas and Chess, she would be considered ________.

a difficult baby

According to the findings of the Minnesota Study of Twins Reared Apart, identical twins, whether raised together or apart have ________ personalities.

very similar

Temperament refers to ________.

inborn, genetically based personality differences

Which personality assessment employs a series of true/false questions?

Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI)

According to the Eysenck’s’ theory, people who score high on neuroticism tend to be ________.

Anxious

The United States is considered a ________ culture.

Individualist

The concept that people choose to move to places that are compatible with their personalities and needs is known as ________.

Selective migration

Which of the following is a projective test?

Rorschach Inkblot Test, Thematic Apperception Test (TAT), Rotter Incomplete Sentence Blank (RISB), Contemporized-Themes Concerning Blacks test, TEMAS (Tell-Me-A-Story),

A personality assessment in which a person responds to ambiguous stimuli, revealing unconscious feelings, impulses, and desires ________.

Projective test