Exam 14: Personality

According to Eysenck's theory,Tara,who is very introverted has a pattern of brain activity that can be described as:

Carl Rogers asserted that well-adjusted individuals respond to the threat created by experiences that are inconsistent with the self by:

A present-day look at psychoanalytic theory reveals that there is some research evidence indicating that unconscious processing occurs and that many modern psychodynamic theorists reject Freud's ideas about:

Psychoanalysts generally agree that the primary defence mechanism utilized by the ego to control the anxiety-generating urges created by the id is the:

Bob thinks that he is a good tennis player and his results support this belief.He is better than almost all of the people in his tennis club and he wins most of his tennis matches.This agreement between Bob's beliefs and his actual experience would best be considered as an example of Carl Rogers's concept of:

In personality research,identifying clusters of specific behaviours that are so highly associated with one another that they are assumed to be due to a single trait or basic dimension of personality is done through _____________.

With personality scales constructed using the empirical approach,the researcher bases the construction of the test on:

In his original conceptualization of psychoanalytic theory,Freud considered the personality to be an energy system that was very similar to:

The concept of personality is based on the observation that people differ in meaningful ways and that people behave somewhat consistently across situations and over time.

Individuals who are high in self-monitoring tend to appear less consistent in their behaviours across situations.

In Western cultures,both men and women prize attributes like emotional strength,and self-sufficiency.

The Oedipus complex is thought to take place during the:

The hydraulic engine and other innovations designed to harness the power of physical energy were particularly influential as metaphors for Sigmund Freud's theory of psychoanalysis.

The superego's "shoulds" in Freud's psychoanalytic theory are most similar to __________________ in Roger's humanistic theory.

Eysenck's theory of personality included three dimensions: Introversion-Extraversion,Stability-Instability and Psychoticism-Self-Control.

According to Carl Rogers,self-consistency refers to the human need:

Her friends describe Susie as an extravert.Susie thinks that she has changed in her adult years because she always felt she was an introverted child.According to the trait theory perspective:

Studies have revealed that personality traits tend to be significantly more consistent across time than they are across situations.

John Bowlby's attachment theory was discussed as being derived directly from which of the following approaches?

Although projective techniques to assess personality are based on the assumption that a person will interpret ambiguous stimuli based on their personal needs,feelings and perspectives,responses are assessed by comparing them to expected responses.