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

Punishment and negative reinforcement are essentially the same thing.

Psychodynamic theorists look at personality in terms of ______.

A man who is scolded by his boss and then yells at the employees who work for him, rather than the boss who upset him in the first place, is using the defense mechanism of ______.

A psychologist believes that personality is the result of an active struggle between various conscious and unconscious forces moving through the mind. This psychologist believes in the ______ model of personality.

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

In the "Little Albert" study, the rat was ______.

Adler believed that a central motivating force in the development of personality is a(n) ______.

Jamie is very competitive. According to Adler, she is most likely ______.

Freud used psychoanalysis to try and explore the ______ mind.

Ivan Pavlov discovered operant conditioning by accident.

In the "Little Albert" study, the clanging noise was ______.

According to Freud, the id operates under the ______ principle.

Carl Rogers's theory of personal growth is called ______ theory.

Evidence indicates that ______.

Erikson's theory of personality grants more power to the ______ than Freud had allowed.

A psychologist agrees with Freud that childhood experiences, particularly the parent-child relationship, play an important role in the development of personality, but disagrees with Freud on how he portrays women and the differences between girls and boys. He feels that interpersonal relationships are more important than sexual and aggressive impulses, and is more optimistic about children's abilities to overcome early traumatic experience. This psychologist's views are most like those of ______.

The school of philosophy that asserts that people are free to make choices and that they are what they believe themselves to be, is ______.

The conflict that Erikson felt characterized adolescence was ______.

From the sociocultural perspective, healthy personality involves _______.

Of the various perspectives presented in your text, which perspective focuses on the measurable aspects of personality that can be scientifically tested and proven?