Deck 12: Personality

Question 1

Which of these is NOT one of the four humors identified by Hippocrates?

A) Choleric
B) sanguine
C) narcissistic
D) phlegmatic
E) melancholic

Answer 1

C

Question 2

Which of Freud's psychosexual development stages typically lasts between the ages of 3 and 6 years?

A) Oral
B) Latency
C) Genital
D) Anal
E) Phallic

Answer 2

E

Question 3

Freud would most likely have considered an adult who is overly trusting and dependent on others to be fixated at which psychosexual stage of development?

A) Genital
B) Oral
C) Phallic
D) Latency
E) Anal

Answer 3

B

Question 4

Which defence mechanism is being referred to: channelling unacceptable impulses into productive activities.

A) Sublimation
B) Projection
C) Rationalization
D) Reaction formation
E) Displacement

Question 5

Which defence mechanism is being referred to: shifting an emotional experience to a safer person or object.

A) Sublimation
B) Projection
C) Rationalization
D) Reaction formation
E) Displacement

Question 6

One important aspect of the humanistic tradition was an emphasis on WHAT?

A) Thoughts
B) Emotions
C) Determinants
D) Choice
E) Physical factors

Question 7

How does Csikszentmihalyi answer the question: what makes life worth living?

A) Family
B) Money
C) Flow
D) Status
E) Friends

Question 8

Whose use of factor analysis led to the creation of the 16PF test?

A) Allport
B) Freud
C) Cattell
D) Eysenck
E) Bandura

Question 9

Which of the following is NOT one of the Big Five named personality traits?

A) Extraversion
B) Openness
C) Agreeableness
D) Psychoticism
E) Neuroticism

Question 10

A future way of assessing personality disorder on a continuum would involve assessing them on four scales. Which of these factors would NOT be assessed?

A) agreeableness
B) identity
C) self-direction
D) empathy
E) intimacy