Exam 11: Personality, Theory and Assessment

Which of the following statements is true of the social-cognitive theories of behaviour and personality?

Id is to ________ as superego is to ________.

Which part of Freud's theory did Karen Horney not reject?

In the five-factor theory, the dimension that differentiates people who are dependable, organized, reliable, and responsible from people who are undependable, impulsive, and careless is called

Who is the personality theorist who believed that our basic drive is to overcome and compensate for inferiority feelings and strive for superiority and significance?

Which of the following is not a major component of Freud's theory?

According to Horney, what is the "tyranny of the should"?

Albert Bandura's concept of reciprocal determinism refers to the mutual effect of

The defence mechanism in which the energy from an unacceptable impulse is redirected into a socially desirable form is called

According to psychoanalytic theory, psychosexual stages are structured by the fact that, as we grow, different parts of the body serve as the focus of the id's constant quest for

Trudy denies her anger with her best friend Leah, and claims that it is Leah who is upset. Trudy may be using the defence mechanism called

In the five-factor theory, the dimension that differentiates people who are moody, irritable, nervous, and prone to worry from people who are calm, even-tempered, easygoing, and relaxed is called

Shared influences occur because individual children tend to elicit different responses from their parents, owing to their temperament, gender, or birth order, etc.

The Oedipal conflict arises and must be resolved during the

Humanistic psychologists see human beings as all of the following, except

Forgetting a traumatic childhood experience would be an example of

Which of the following is the humanistic psychologist who stressed that individuals need unconditional positive regard in order to become fully functioning persons?

Defence mechanisms lessen the pain of anxiety, but they do not cure the problem.

According to Freud, which of the following would not reside at the level of the unconscious?

A patient is being evaluated for psychiatric problems. The objective test the psychologists should use is the