Exam 13: Personality and the Uniqueness of the Individual

Adam smokes cigarettes. His therapist told him he likely received too little gratification in the oral stage of development, and therefore he has __________.

In studies of personality, which nonhuman animals possess conscientiousness?

Raters are considered reliable if the correlation between their ratings equals or exceeds __________.

Children of mothers who experienced high stress while they were pregnant with them are more likely than controls to have __________.

Personality is __________.

__________________ underlies all other defense mechanisms.

According to Sigmund Freud, the ______________ is the reservoir of drives, thoughts, and memories that are hidden below the surface of our awareness but still affect our behavior.

According to Sigmund Freud, when does the genital stage of psychosexual development take place?

In the phallic stage of psychosexual development, children discover that a source of pleasure is their__________.

A longer form of the DRD4 gene is associated with __________.

Abraham Maslow's concept of ______________ posited that people have an inborn drive to reach their full potential and live life to the fullest.

Even though he has a huge crush on Clara, Milton will not ask her for a date, because he is too shy. Psychoanalytic theory posits that the Milton has a highly developed __________.

Personality tests are most useful in ____________ police officers.

Research has shown that people who frequently exhibit thrill-seeking behaviors have__________________, and therefore they seek excitement to return this to an appropriate level.

Hans Eysenck's model of personality does not include the dimension of __________.

Statistically speaking, a trait such as "anxious" is __________.

Making Connections in Personality: Psychoanalytic theorists say that which of the following disorders would most likely arise from an anal fixation?

Which of the following researchers is using the quantitative trait loci (QTL) approach to studying personality?

The first stage of psychosexual development is the __________.

Carl Jung said that the ______________ is a reservoir of experiences shared by our ancestors that has been transmitted across generations and has provided us with an inherent knowledge of the good, the bad, the art of survival, and so on.