PSYC 331 UPDATED EXAM SCRIPT QUESTIONS AND
SOLUTIONS GRADED A+
✔✔Neo-Freudians - ✔✔Group of psychologists who agree with Freud's emphasis on
the impact of childhood on one's life, but move away from a sole focus on sex and
aggression.
✔✔Alred Adler - ✔✔- Felt that Freud focused too much on sex.
- Applied more importance on social interest
✔✔Carl Jung - ✔✔- First president of the international psychoanalyatic association
- disagreed with Frued
- established analytic psychology
✔✔Persona - ✔✔an individual's characteristic pattern of thinking, feeling, and acting
✔✔The Myer-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) - ✔✔Extraverted-Introverted
Sensing-Intuition
Thinking-Feeling
Judging-Perceiving
✔✔ego psychology - ✔✔Psychoanalytic theory that emphasizes the role of the ego in
development and attributes psychological disorders to failure of the ego to manage
impulses and internal conflicts. Also known as self-psychology.
✔✔Karen Horney - ✔✔Studied Freuds work and taught psychoanalysis
✔✔neurotic - ✔✔people who are trapped in a self-defeating interpersonal style
✔✔frustration-aggression hypothesis - ✔✔the principle that frustration- the blocking of
an attempt to achieve some goal- creates anger which can generate aggression
✔✔Trait Theory - ✔✔A theory of personality that focuses on identifying, describing, and
measuring individual differences in behavioral predispositions
✔✔Allport - ✔✔took 4,500 words to describe trait theory from a dictionary
✔✔nomoethic approach - ✔✔people can be described along a single dimension
according to their level of assertiveness or anxiety
✔✔idiographic approach - ✔✔identifies the combination of traits that best accounts for
the personality of a individual
, ✔✔Henry Murray - ✔✔stated that the need to achieve varied in strength in different
people and influenced their tendency to approach success and evaluate their own
performances; devised the TAT (Thematic Appreciation Test) with Christina D. Morgan
✔✔Eysenck - ✔✔- built on cattells work
- stability/ instability
- extroversion/ introverision
✔✔Costa and McCrae - ✔✔created Big five model
✔✔THE BIG FIVE - O - ✔✔- Involves active imagination, divergent thinking, and
intellectual curiosity
- People on the high end are unconventional and independent thinkers
- Individuals on the low end prefer the familiar rather than the imaginative
✔✔THE BIG FIVE - C - ✔✔- People on the high end are organized, plan oriented, and
determined
- Individuals on the low end are careless, easily distracted from tasks,
and undependable
- Referred as will to achieve or work
✔✔THE BIG FIVE - E - ✔✔- Places extreme extraverts at one end and extreme
introverts at the
other
- Extraverts are very sociable people
- Introverts are reserved and independent people
✔✔Stigma of introversion - ✔✔Introversion is often misunderstood as shyness, but
introverted people often simply seek low levels of stimulation from their environment.
✔✔THE BIG FIVE - A - ✔✔- People with high scores are helpful, trusting, and
sympathetic
- Individuals with low scores tend to be antagonistic and skeptical
✔✔THE BIG FIVE - N - ✔✔- Places people according to their emotional stability and
personal
adjustment
- People with high scores are more vulnerable to anxiety and depression
- Individuals with low scores tend to be calm and well adjusted
✔✔TIPI - ✔✔Ten item personality inventory based on the big 5
✔✔MMPI (Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory) - ✔✔the most widely
researched and clinically used of all personality tests. Originally developed to identify
SOLUTIONS GRADED A+
✔✔Neo-Freudians - ✔✔Group of psychologists who agree with Freud's emphasis on
the impact of childhood on one's life, but move away from a sole focus on sex and
aggression.
✔✔Alred Adler - ✔✔- Felt that Freud focused too much on sex.
- Applied more importance on social interest
✔✔Carl Jung - ✔✔- First president of the international psychoanalyatic association
- disagreed with Frued
- established analytic psychology
✔✔Persona - ✔✔an individual's characteristic pattern of thinking, feeling, and acting
✔✔The Myer-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) - ✔✔Extraverted-Introverted
Sensing-Intuition
Thinking-Feeling
Judging-Perceiving
✔✔ego psychology - ✔✔Psychoanalytic theory that emphasizes the role of the ego in
development and attributes psychological disorders to failure of the ego to manage
impulses and internal conflicts. Also known as self-psychology.
✔✔Karen Horney - ✔✔Studied Freuds work and taught psychoanalysis
✔✔neurotic - ✔✔people who are trapped in a self-defeating interpersonal style
✔✔frustration-aggression hypothesis - ✔✔the principle that frustration- the blocking of
an attempt to achieve some goal- creates anger which can generate aggression
✔✔Trait Theory - ✔✔A theory of personality that focuses on identifying, describing, and
measuring individual differences in behavioral predispositions
✔✔Allport - ✔✔took 4,500 words to describe trait theory from a dictionary
✔✔nomoethic approach - ✔✔people can be described along a single dimension
according to their level of assertiveness or anxiety
✔✔idiographic approach - ✔✔identifies the combination of traits that best accounts for
the personality of a individual
, ✔✔Henry Murray - ✔✔stated that the need to achieve varied in strength in different
people and influenced their tendency to approach success and evaluate their own
performances; devised the TAT (Thematic Appreciation Test) with Christina D. Morgan
✔✔Eysenck - ✔✔- built on cattells work
- stability/ instability
- extroversion/ introverision
✔✔Costa and McCrae - ✔✔created Big five model
✔✔THE BIG FIVE - O - ✔✔- Involves active imagination, divergent thinking, and
intellectual curiosity
- People on the high end are unconventional and independent thinkers
- Individuals on the low end prefer the familiar rather than the imaginative
✔✔THE BIG FIVE - C - ✔✔- People on the high end are organized, plan oriented, and
determined
- Individuals on the low end are careless, easily distracted from tasks,
and undependable
- Referred as will to achieve or work
✔✔THE BIG FIVE - E - ✔✔- Places extreme extraverts at one end and extreme
introverts at the
other
- Extraverts are very sociable people
- Introverts are reserved and independent people
✔✔Stigma of introversion - ✔✔Introversion is often misunderstood as shyness, but
introverted people often simply seek low levels of stimulation from their environment.
✔✔THE BIG FIVE - A - ✔✔- People with high scores are helpful, trusting, and
sympathetic
- Individuals with low scores tend to be antagonistic and skeptical
✔✔THE BIG FIVE - N - ✔✔- Places people according to their emotional stability and
personal
adjustment
- People with high scores are more vulnerable to anxiety and depression
- Individuals with low scores tend to be calm and well adjusted
✔✔TIPI - ✔✔Ten item personality inventory based on the big 5
✔✔MMPI (Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory) - ✔✔the most widely
researched and clinically used of all personality tests. Originally developed to identify
