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

According to behavioral theory, the pairing of the color red with the concept of "stop" or "danger" to the point that we automatically stop or prepare for danger when we see the color red is an example of ______.

For Freud, psychosexual maturation involves ______.

The sociocultural perspective embraces a ______ view of personality than those associated with traditional psychological models.

Which of the following is the correct order of Freud's stages of development?

For Freud, the psychic structure that demands instant gratification of instincts without consideration of law, social custom, or the needs of others is the ______.

______ theory perspectives have arguably had a larger influence on modern psychology than any other set of theories.

Reinforcers that have value because of the biological makeup of an individual such as food, water, and sexual activity are called, by Skinner, ______.

Explain how operant conditioning works and discuss the differences among positive and negative reinforcers, primary and secondary reinforcers, and punishment.

Andrea is 8 years old. She prefers playing with other little girls and wants little or nothing to do with little boys. In fact, all of her sexual feelings are currently unconscious. According to Freud, she is in the ______ stage.

Freud began his career by specializing in the treatment of ______ problems.

A change in the environment that increases the frequency of the behavior it follows is a ______.

Chemicals in the nervous system that carry messages from one nerve cell to another are called ______.

A person who defines herself or himself in terms of relationships to other people, such as the groups to which she or he belongs, and gives priority to the group's goals is labeled by sociocultural theorists to be a(n) ______.

A stimulus that elicits a response from an organism without learning is ______.

Each of the following is a criticism of learning theories EXCEPT ______.

Jung emphasized the importance of birth order in shaping personality.

Explain what the five-factor model is, briefly describing each of the five factors in the model and discussing how the model is currently being used.

Identify the three psychic structures in Freud's personality theory and how each structure functions.

The transfer of impulses and ideas from threatening or unsuitable objects to "safer" and less threatening objects is ______.

Rogers believed that we have mental images of what we are capable of being called ______.