Exam 16: Personality and Individual Differences

The concept that unconscious processes underlie all conscious thoughts and actions is called psychic __________.

The __________ theory of personality focuses on the interaction of mental,often unconscious,forces.

One criticism of the Rorschach inkblot test is that

Which of the following is one of the major criticisms of the social cognitive perspective of personality?

Reciprocal determinism suggests a constant interplay between personal factors,behavior,and the environment.

Each of the five factors of personality proposed in the "Big Five" model consists of ___ facets,each of which correlate with one another.

Which theorist proposed that the level of control we believe we have over the world around us influences our personality?

Which personality theorist contributed to the publication of a list of over nearly 18,000 words found in the dictionary that could be used to describe people's personality traits?

Alfred Adler developed the idea of the __________ complex,which suggests that people strive for perfection and mastery throughout adulthood in order to compensate for perceived physical and mental shortcomings rooted in childhood.

According to Freud's theory of the mind,the superego operates on the pleasure principle.

_________ are considered to be lasting,while __________ are more transient,or temporary.

When Maria was born,her 5-year old sister became intensely jealous of all of the attention that was directed to the baby.She tried to be a good big sister,but as each day went on she became more and more resentful of the new sister.Maria,who had long-since been toilet trained,suddenly began wetting her bed again.A psychodynamic theorist would explain this as an example of the defense mechanism called __________.

The dominant cultures of all but which of the following areas tend to be collectivist?

If the id acts like a child,then the __________ acts like a parent.

According to Freud,the personality develops over the course of ___ psychosexual stages.

Albert Bandura focused his work on the concepts of self-efficacy and reciprocal determinism.

To what sort of treatment were the dogs in Seligman's experiment on learned helplessness exposed?

Which of the following is a component of the humanistic theory of personality?

Hans Eysenck believed that one of our basic personality traits,our level of outgoingness,is mediated by sensitivity in the __________ of the brain.

Which theorist is responsible for promoting the theory of psychobiography?