Personality Psychology Review Quiz with complete
solutions
Carl Rogers - Answers-humanistic psychology; Contributions: founded client-centered
therapy, theory that emphasizes the unique quality of humans especially their freedom
and potential for personal growth, unconditional positive regard,
.Self-Actualization - Answers-according to Maslow, the ultimate psychological need that
arises after basic physical and psychological needs are met and self-esteem is
achieved; the motivation to fulfill one's potential.
.Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI) - Answers-the most widely
researched and clinically used of all personality tests. Originally developed to identify
emotional disorders (still considered its most appropriate use), this test is now used for
many other screening purposes.
.Big Five/Five Factor Theory - Answers-Extraversion, Neuroticism, Openness to
Experiences, Agreeableness, Conscientiousness
.Reciprocal Determinism - Answers-the interacting influences between personality and
environmental factors.
.External Locus of Control - Answers-the perception that chance or outside forces
beyond one's personal control determine one's fate
.Internal Locus of Control - Answers-the perception that one controls one's own fate.
.Preconscious - Answers-in Freud's theory, the level of consciousness in which thoughts
and feelings are not conscious but are readily retrieveable to consciousness
.Collective Unconscious - Answers-Carl Jung's concept of a shared, inherited reservoir
of memory traces from our species' history
.Archetypes - Answers-ideas and images of the accumulated experience of all human
beings
.Thematic Aperception Test (TAT) - Answers--pictures & stories test
-responses scored according to motives and conflicts expressed in the stories
.Rorschach Inkblot Test - Answers-the most widely used projective test, a set of 10
inkblots, seeks to identify people's inner feelings by analyzing their interpretations of the
blots
solutions
Carl Rogers - Answers-humanistic psychology; Contributions: founded client-centered
therapy, theory that emphasizes the unique quality of humans especially their freedom
and potential for personal growth, unconditional positive regard,
.Self-Actualization - Answers-according to Maslow, the ultimate psychological need that
arises after basic physical and psychological needs are met and self-esteem is
achieved; the motivation to fulfill one's potential.
.Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI) - Answers-the most widely
researched and clinically used of all personality tests. Originally developed to identify
emotional disorders (still considered its most appropriate use), this test is now used for
many other screening purposes.
.Big Five/Five Factor Theory - Answers-Extraversion, Neuroticism, Openness to
Experiences, Agreeableness, Conscientiousness
.Reciprocal Determinism - Answers-the interacting influences between personality and
environmental factors.
.External Locus of Control - Answers-the perception that chance or outside forces
beyond one's personal control determine one's fate
.Internal Locus of Control - Answers-the perception that one controls one's own fate.
.Preconscious - Answers-in Freud's theory, the level of consciousness in which thoughts
and feelings are not conscious but are readily retrieveable to consciousness
.Collective Unconscious - Answers-Carl Jung's concept of a shared, inherited reservoir
of memory traces from our species' history
.Archetypes - Answers-ideas and images of the accumulated experience of all human
beings
.Thematic Aperception Test (TAT) - Answers--pictures & stories test
-responses scored according to motives and conflicts expressed in the stories
.Rorschach Inkblot Test - Answers-the most widely used projective test, a set of 10
inkblots, seeks to identify people's inner feelings by analyzing their interpretations of the
blots
