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

Behaviorists typically speak in terms of a healthy personality.

According to Freud, the psychic structure that might best represent the judgmental "parent" in you, constantly telling you what you should or should not do, is the ______.

Describe the views of humanistic theorists in terms of their focus and common features, and how they differ from the other personality theories.

Assumption of a behavior in opposition to one's genuine impulses in order to keep those impulses buried is ______.

A hostile man channels his anger into practicing his tennis game until he becomes a tennis star. This is an example of ______.

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

A man explains his cheating on his income taxes by saying, "Everyone does it! I just got caught!" This is an example of ______.

Describe the views of sociocultural theorists in terms of their focus and common features, and how they differ from the other personality theories.

According to Freud, masturbation, oral and anal stimulation, and homosexual activity all represent ______.

For Freud, the Cookie Monster on television's Sesame Street would most closely represent which psychic structure?

Psychodynamic theories were developed by working with ______.

What is the proper order (from most easily satisfied to least easily satisfied) of the various types of needs in Maslow's needs hierarchy?

The TAT is widely used in research on ______.

The definition of reinforcement relies on "mentalistic" assumptions about what a person or lower organism finds pleasant or unpleasant.

The return, under stress, to a form of behavior characteristic of an earlier (younger) stage of development is ______.

Learning theories often fail to give enough attention to the influence of heredity.

According to Freud, the ego is ______.

A sexually frustrated musician puts all her energy into writing beautiful musical pieces. This is an example of ______.

According to Maslow, self-initiated striving to become whatever we believe we are capable of being is called ______.

According to Freud, the psychic structure that tries to find gratification while avoiding social disapproval is the ______.