Exam 11: Personality, Theory and Assessment

Jung theorized that sometimes inferiority feelings are so strong that they prevent personal development.

An inventory is a paper-and-pencil test with questions about an individual's thoughts, feelings, and behaviours that can be scored using a standardized scoring system.

Often when his wife criticizes him, Eric will pout for a while and then without a word, leave home and return to his mother's house for several hours. What would Freud label Eric's behaviour?

Which psychological test was developed with the original purpose of screening and diagnosing a variety of psychiatric problems and disorders?

According to B.F. Skinner, which of the following ideas about personality was acceptable?

The three major methods for assessing personality are observation, interview, and rating scales.

Which of the following is an example of displacement?

Gordon Allport identified two main categories of traits; they were

Roxanne eats, drinks, and smokes excessively. According to Freud, she may have a fixation at the

The part of the personality that must determine the most appropriate ways and means of satisfying your biological urges is the

What is the Oedipus complex?

According to Allport, the kind of trait that is a defining characteristic of one's personality is a ________ trait.

The id is ________ unconscious and operates according to the ________ principle.

How are the id, the ego, and the superego interrelated?

Ego is to ________ as superego is to ________.

With displacement, we substitute a less threatening object for the original object of an impulse.

Virtually every personality psychologist now agrees with the Costa and McCrae's five traits.

Who claimed that we can best understand personality by assessing people on two major dimensions, extraversion and neuroticism?

Karl enjoys going to new places and seeing new things. He visits museums and likes to explore different types of environments. He is imaginative and curious. Based on this information, Karl would be best described in terms of the five-factor theory as

In psychoanalysis, the personality results entirely from traits that develop because of fixations in psychosexual stages.