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

Adler's term for the desire to compensate for feelings of inferiority is ______.

Learning theorists feel that if we really expect good behavior from children, we must ______.

For Freud, the term for the instinct to preserve and perpetuate life is ______.

Children are most likely to prefer playmates of their own gender during the ______ stage.

Jeanine is messy, sloppy, careless, and somewhat sadistic. She is ______, according to Freud.

Identify the stages of Freud's theory of psychosexual development and describe what happens at each stage.

Being bicultural is linked to higher self-esteem among ______ adolescents.

Summarize the elements that humanistic theorists believe are essential for a person to have a healthy personality.

Each of the following theorists was a follower of Sigmund Freud except ______.

A person who has hurt people close to him cannot recall his identity or any information concerning his personal life. This is an example of ______.

Social-cognitive theorists view healthy personality in terms of ______.

A child who is yelled at by her parents for misbehaving turns and throws her toys at the wall, yelling, "Bad toys!" This is an example of ______.

A child learns to believe that she is only a good person if she behaves in certain ways. According to Rogers, she has developed ______.

According to Freud, during the latency stage ______.

The conflict that Erikson felt characterized the preschool years (ages 4 to 5) was ______.

A pigeon learns to peck at buttons because it receives food each time it pecks at the buttons. This learning is due to ______.

Researchers have found links between lower satisfaction with intimate relationships and higher levels of ______ among college students.

In recent years, a growing consensus appears to be emerging that behavior reflects an interchange between traits dispositions and situational or environmental factors-a concept known as ______.

Early psychodynamic theory taught that women who sought to compete with men in the workplace were suffering from ______.

According to social-cognitive theory, people ______.