Exam 11: Personality Theory and Assessment

According to Jung's theory, repressed memories would be contained in the

Social-cognitive theorists consider both the environment and personal/cognitive factors to be important in attempts to understand human personality and behaviour.

Which of the following concepts did Jung use to account for the similarity of certain myths, dreams, symbols, and religious beliefs in cultures widely separated by distance and time?

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

Whenever the ego is unable to solve its problems rationally, it turns to

When using an observational techniques known as behaviour assessment, psychologists

Sigmund Freud's theory is built on

Dr. X and Dr. Y are both experts in personality assessment. They would be most likely to agree on their interpretation of results from the

According to Freud, from age five or six to puberty the sex instinct is repressed and temporarily sublimated in school and play activities. This is called the

Twin studies have suggested that our tendency to accept and endorse traditional moral values and follow rules and authority have a genetic influence.

The Oedipus complex in both sons and daughters is resolved when the child represses sexual feelings toward the ________ parent and identifies with the ________ parent.

Jamil has a great fear of dentists. He makes an appointment with his dentist, but although he marks the date and time on his calendar and in his date book, he still forgets to go. Freud would say that Jamil practiced the defence mechanism of

According to Freud, repression operates in all of the following ways except

Freud called the desire of a son to possess the mother and to get rid of the father the

Rogers is to ________ as Maslow is to ________.

Rationalization is defined as

According to your text, the most serious limitation of the observational method of assessment is

According to Karen Horney, the formation of personality rests most heavily on

In contrast to Freud, Adler emphasized the unity of the personality.

According to Rogers, each of us lives in a private subjective reality, the _________.