Exam 10: Personality: Theory and Measurement

According to psychodynamic theory, people who have a strong need for order might be considered _________ while those who are careless and messy as _________.

Which of the following tests is an example of an objective personality test?

According to Freud, which of the following is true of the ego?

According to Sigmund Freud, conflicting emotions such as love and hate can dwell side by side in the ___________.

__________ refers to the reasonably stable patterns of emotions, motives, and behavior that distinguish one person from another.

Which of the following is true of social cognitive theory?

Erik Erikson is credited with developing the psychosexual stages of development.

Jim overhears a classmate explaining to a friend that people are free to do what they choose with their lives and that the meaning of their lives is what they give to it. He further explains that people have unique ways of looking at the world, known as unique frame of reference. The classmate is describing the views of __________.

According to Freud, during the __________ of psychosexual development children may develop strong sexual attachments to the parent of the other gender and begin to view the parent of the same gender as a rival for the other parent's affections.

In the context of measurement of personality, which of the following statements is true?

Identify the factors that make up the Big Five factor model.

According to Freud, the ego is guided by the ___________.

Jessica is observed to be gloomy and pensive most of the time. According to Hippocrates' view of personality, Jessica is most likely to be associated with a _________ temperament.

Freud believed that the Electra complex develops in the __________ of psychosexual development.

Karen Horney believed that the view that girls feel inferior to boys was based on _________.

Which of the following is true of the learning theorists?

Gender-typing is the process by which males and females come to develop personality traits and behavior patterns that society considers to be consistent with their gender.

__________ are reasonably stable elements of personality that are inferred from behavior.

Erikson labeled the first stage of psychosocial development in his theory of personality development as the stage of __________.

Psychologists define personality as the reasonably stable patterns of emotions, motives, and behavior that distinguishes one person from another.