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

Expectations about the results of behaviors are called ______ expectancies.

The ego is driven by the pleasure principle.

A child learns to believe that she has intrinsic worth and merit, regardless of her behavior. At the moment, because she has received consistent expressions of esteem from her parents. According to Rogers, this child has most likely been brought up with ______.

Each of the following is one of the components of healthy personality, according to humanistic-existential psychologists, EXCEPT ______.

Reflexes are learned.

A teenage boy decides that he wants to fall in love with a girl who is just like his mother. According to Freud, this boy's feelings are the result of ______.

The neurotransmitter dopamine is associated with ______ behavior in other animals.

Amy smokes, drinks, overeats, and bites her nails. Freud would probably diagnose her as being fixated in the ______ stage of development.

A psychotherapy patient is asked to lie on a couch and talk about anything that comes to mind, in the hope that her ramblings will eventually help her gain insight into her wishes, fears, repressed emotional conflicts, and the workings of her unconscious mind. The type of therapy in which this patient is involved is most likely ______.

Smokers who refuse to believe that cigarettes may increase their risk of developing cancer are using the defense mechanism of ______.

The process of blaming others for your own unacceptable impulses or claiming that others harbor those impulses is ______.

The type of learning through which people acquire new behaviors by watching the behaviors of others is called ______.

Refusal to accept the true nature of a threat is ______.

Freud was trained as ______.

Classical conditioning usually conditions _______ responses. Operant conditioning usually conditions ______ responses.

Freud saw human maturation as a process of ______ development.

Rachel is 4 years old. She has developed a strong sense of attachment toward her father and sees her mother as a rival for her father's affections. According to Freud, she is experiencing the ______ complex.

Adler spoke of a self-aware aspect of personality that strives to overcome obstacles and develop the individual's potential called ______.

A student forgets that he has an important, but difficult test that day in his psychology class. This is an example of ______.

Behaviorists view the concept of freedom as ______.