Exam 11: A: Theories of Personality and Intelligence

Which of these is an element of the formal definition of mental retardation?

Mei is Chinese American.She is very loyal to her family.Her sister lives with her,and she mails money back to China to her father and younger brother.Mei's way of life is typical of someone who comes from a culture that is _________.

The most commonly used personality inventory is the _____________.

Which classification of developmental delay affects most of the population classified in this fashion?

All the following are projective tests EXCEPT the ______________.

Personality assessments conducted by behaviorists rely primarily on ____________.

The field of _____________ is devoted to the study of just how much of personality is due to inherited traits.

The ______ controls the satisfaction of the id's drives in the external world.

A male has a thin,frail-looking area on his X chromosome of the 23rd pair.As children,people with this syndrome are typically mildly developmentally delayed but shift to severe or profound developmental delay as adults.This is known as _______.

Which was NOT a finding of the Terman and Oden (1974)study of gifted kids?

Travis is a participant in the X-games every year,which features events that are high flying and exhilarating to watch or participate in,but also very dangerous to the competitors.Because Travis is willing to take chances with his health to get the adrenaline rush from these sorts of events,Costa and McCrae would argue that he ranks high on which of the five factors?

Which theory of personality was a direct reaction against the psychoanalytic and behaviorist perspectives?

Which defense mechanism figured prominently in the theory of Alfred Adler?

When Anna looks at some modern artwork at the museum,she often thinks she sees human figures or faces and likes to make up stories about them.When she tells the stories to her friend,her friend says that the stories reflect Anna's unconscious thoughts.In psychological terms,what Anna does is most similar to ______.

Gordon Allport thought traits were wired into the brain.

When assessing personality,many psychologists take the eclectic view,which means they ________.

According to Freud,girls have to go through the Oedipus complex,but boys don't.

Which one of the goals of psychology would be most relevant in the trait perspective?

Which personality test relies on the interpretation of inkblots to understand personality?

The neo-Freudian,Carl Jung,suggested the existence of a collective unconscious that contains images shared by all people called ______.