Exam 2: Personality: What It Is, How Its Measured

In ______, a learner proceeds at her or his own pace to master a set of learning tasks, receiving reinforcement for completing each step in the series.

Scientists believe that genes ______.

Horney believed that people relate to each other in each of the following ways EXCEPT moving ______.

To symbolize, transform, or represent events or information is to ______.

According to Freud, the conflict in which little boys are sexually attracted to their mothers and wish to eliminate their fathers is called ______.

According to Freud, the superego is ______.

To a behaviorist, personality is ______.

The conflict that Erikson felt characterized young adulthood was ______.

The greatest value of the humanistic approach may also be its greatest weakness.

Our personality is linked to our driving behavior.

An unlearned response to an unconditioned stimulus is ______.

A previously neutral stimulus that elicits a conditioned response because it has been paired repeatedly with a stimulus that already brought forth that response is ______.

Recent research suggests a ______ relationship between self-esteem and neuroticism, and a ______ relationship between self-esteem and extraversion.

According to Freud, a person's conscious sense of self, or self-awareness, is located in the ______.

A psychologist argues that inside each one of us is a unifying force, the self, which gives direction and purpose to human behavior, and persistently strives to achieve wholeness or fullness. She also argues that to understand human behavior, one must incorporate self-awareness and self-direction as well as unconscious impulses. This psychologist's views are most similar to those of ______.

According to Freud, the psychic structure that is rational, logical, and makes plans for satisfying basic needs that are in keeping with social convention is the ______.

Freud believed that children encounter conflict _______stage of development.

An adult becomes highly dependent on his parents after the breakup of his marriage. This is an example of ______.

Nagging someone to do something is an example of ______.

According to Skinner, reinforcers that acquire their value through their association with established reinforcers are called ______.