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

A college student spends an entire evening trying to logically sort out the pros and cons of a job offer she has just received. According to Freud, the psychic structure responsible for this type of mental activity is the ______.

Each of the following is true of trait theories EXCEPT ______.

The theory that focuses on the roles of ethnicity, gender, culture, and socioeconomic status in shaping personality is ______.

The psychodynamic theory emphasizing the collective unconscious and archetypes is ______.

A psychologist believes that people are largely motivated to overcome an inferiority complex. This psychologist is probably a follower of ______.

Each of the following is true of Sigmund Freud EXCEPT ______.

Erikson labeled each of his developmental stages ______.

A woman who is frustrated at work comes home and kills her family. This is an extreme example of ______.

Objective tests present respondents with a standardized group of test items in the form of a questionnaire.

Discuss the views of trait theorists in terms of their focus and how they differ from the other personality perspectives.

The 1970s US army recruiting ads that claimed in the army you can "be all that you can be" were utilizing Maslow's concept of ______ to try to get people to enlist.

According to Freud, the region of the mind that pokes through into the light of awareness is the ______.

To a ______, personality is nothing more than the sum total of an individual's response repertoire.

A hostile person develops delusions that others are attempting to destroy him. This is an example of ______.

The term Freud used to describe motivated forgetting or the automatic ejection of anxiety evoking ideas from awareness is ______.

Adler, Jung, and Erikson all believed that Freud had placed too much emphasis on sexuality.

In the story of the blind men and the elephant, presented in your text, the elephant most closely represents ______.

In Pavlov's research with dogs, salivation to the tone was ______.

For Erikson, the goal of adolescence is the attainment of ______.

According to Freud, the principle that seeks to find socially acceptable ways to meet the instinctive needs of the id is the ______ principle.