PERSONALITY PSYCHOLOGY FINAL EXAM
ACTUAL QUESTIONS AND CORRECT
ANSWERS
◉ Moralistic Anxiety.
Answer: Feelings like shame, guilt and the fear of punishment.
◉ Denial.
Answer: Blocking external events from awareness.
◉ Repression.
Answer: "Motivated forgetting". Not being able to recall a
threatening situation, person or event.
◉ Identification.
Answer: Involves taking into your own personality characteristics of
someone else, because doing so solves some emotional difficulty.
(Becoming mom b/c she isn't around).
◉ Regression.
Answer: A movement back in psychological time when is faced with
stress. Behaviors become childish primitive.
,◉ Projection.
Answer: The tendency to see your own unacceptable desires in
other people.
◉ Rationalization.
Answer: The cognitive distortion of "the facts" to make an event or
an impulse less threatening.
◉ Intellectualization.
Answer: Involves stripping the emotions from a difficult memory or
threatening impulse.
◉ Reaction Formation.
Answer: Changing an unacceptable impulse into its opposite.
◉ Displacement.
Answer: The redirection of an impulse onto a substitute target.
◉ Sublimation.
Answer: The transforming of an unacceptable impulse, into a
socially acceptable, even productive form.
, ◉ Parapraxis (Freudian Slip).
Answer: Freud thought that everything had a meaning, dialing a
wrong number, ect. He thought they were clues to unconscious
conflicts.
◉ The Stages of Freud's Psycho-sexual Theory of Development.
Answer: Oral, Anal, Phallic, Latent, Genital.
◉ Oral Stage (Characteristics, Age Range, Developmental
Significance).
Answer: Birth- 18months, Erogenous zones=Mouth.
◉ Anal Stage (Characteristics, Age Range, Developmental
Significance).
Answer: 18 months to 3 or 4 years old. Erogenous zones= Anus.
◉ Phallic Stage (Characteristics, Age range, Developmental
Significance).
Answer: 3 or 4 to 5 or 6. Erogenous zones= Genitalia.
◉ Latent Stage (Characteristics, Age range, Developmental
Significance).
Answer: 5,6,7 to Puberty. No Erogenous zones.
ACTUAL QUESTIONS AND CORRECT
ANSWERS
◉ Moralistic Anxiety.
Answer: Feelings like shame, guilt and the fear of punishment.
◉ Denial.
Answer: Blocking external events from awareness.
◉ Repression.
Answer: "Motivated forgetting". Not being able to recall a
threatening situation, person or event.
◉ Identification.
Answer: Involves taking into your own personality characteristics of
someone else, because doing so solves some emotional difficulty.
(Becoming mom b/c she isn't around).
◉ Regression.
Answer: A movement back in psychological time when is faced with
stress. Behaviors become childish primitive.
,◉ Projection.
Answer: The tendency to see your own unacceptable desires in
other people.
◉ Rationalization.
Answer: The cognitive distortion of "the facts" to make an event or
an impulse less threatening.
◉ Intellectualization.
Answer: Involves stripping the emotions from a difficult memory or
threatening impulse.
◉ Reaction Formation.
Answer: Changing an unacceptable impulse into its opposite.
◉ Displacement.
Answer: The redirection of an impulse onto a substitute target.
◉ Sublimation.
Answer: The transforming of an unacceptable impulse, into a
socially acceptable, even productive form.
, ◉ Parapraxis (Freudian Slip).
Answer: Freud thought that everything had a meaning, dialing a
wrong number, ect. He thought they were clues to unconscious
conflicts.
◉ The Stages of Freud's Psycho-sexual Theory of Development.
Answer: Oral, Anal, Phallic, Latent, Genital.
◉ Oral Stage (Characteristics, Age Range, Developmental
Significance).
Answer: Birth- 18months, Erogenous zones=Mouth.
◉ Anal Stage (Characteristics, Age Range, Developmental
Significance).
Answer: 18 months to 3 or 4 years old. Erogenous zones= Anus.
◉ Phallic Stage (Characteristics, Age range, Developmental
Significance).
Answer: 3 or 4 to 5 or 6. Erogenous zones= Genitalia.
◉ Latent Stage (Characteristics, Age range, Developmental
Significance).
Answer: 5,6,7 to Puberty. No Erogenous zones.
