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

______ is a form of learning by association.

Although born Jewish, Freud proclaimed himself to be ______.

According to Freud, our conscience lies in the ______.

During his first television appearance, when B. F. Skinner was asked whether he would burn his children or his books, if forced to choose, he responded _______.

Freud theorized that children enter the ______ stage at puberty.

Reasonably stable elements of personality that are inferred from behavior are ______.

In social-cognitive theory, internal determinants of behavior such as behavioral competencies, expectancies, self-efficacy, or subjective values are called ______ variables.

According to Freud, Oedipal feelings and conflicts are usually resolved by about the age of ______.

Freud's psychic structures of personality can ______.

Jung and Adler both believed that Freud placed too much emphasis on ______.

A person from ______ is MOST likely to be an individualist.

Carl Jung believed in a unifying force of personality that gives direction and purpose to human behavior called ______.

In social-cognitive theory, personal predictions about the outcomes of events, or the likely results of engaging in a response, such as "if-then" statements, are called ______.

Explain the major ideas of Abraham Maslow's theory of personality.

Freud argued that during adolescence, a child's unconscious desires for the parent of the opposite sex are transferred to socially appropriate members of the opposite sex through the defense mechanism of ______.

If self-efficacy is too high, it can lead to overconfidence, which can handicap performance.

The conflict that Erikson felt characterized infancy (birth to 1 year) was ______.

The MMPI is an example of a(n) ______ test.

Classical conditioning was discovered by ______.

A little boy feels guilty after stealing a toy from his next-door neighbor. The psychic structure responsible for his feelings, according to Freud, is the ______.