Personality Psychology (Exam 3) Questions With 100% Pass

Personality Psychology (Exam 3)
Questions With 100% Pass

Personality Psychology studies - Answers-the characteristics/traits that make individuals
unique and different from one another

.Personality is relativly - Answers-continuous and stable

.Personality is expressed in - Answers-thoughts feelings and behaviors

.Personality determines - Answers-how the individual relates to the social world

.Six different theoretical perpectives on personality - Answers-psychodynamic T,
humanistic T, Social learning T, Trait T, BIological P, and Adult Attachment

.Psychoanalytic Theory def and creator - Answers-Freud, Humans are product of
natural selection behavior driven by unconscious sexual and aggressive instincts

.Id - Answers-biological substrate of humans, operates unconsciously and according to
the pleasure principle

.Ego - Answers-mediator b/w id an d super ego, operates both conscious and
preconscious and according to the Reality principle

.Superego - Answers-moral brand of functioning, operates at all 3 levels of
consciousness,

.Superego not complete till? - Answers-seven years of age

.Defense mechanism - Answers-unconscious processes that distort reality an exclude
certain feelings from awareness to reduce anxiety

.Reaction Formation defense mechanism - Answers-tendency of a repressed
wish/feeling to be expressed at a conscious level in a contrasting form

.Rationalization defense mechanism - Answers-controversial behaviors/ feelings
justified in a seemingly rational or logical manner to avoid the true explanation

.Projection defense mechanism - Answers-misattribution of a person's undesired
thoughts feelings and impulses onto another person who does not have those thoughts
feelings or impulses

, .Sublimation defense mechanism - Answers-socially unacceptable impulses or
idealizations are consciously transformed into socially acceptable actions or behavior

.Displacement defense mechanism - Answers-person shifts his/her impulses from an
unacceptable target to a more acceptable or less threatening target

.Contemporary thinking of function of defense mechanisms - Answers-protection of the
self and self-esteem

.Repression defense mechanism in freuds view - Answers-unconscious mechanism
employed by the ego to keep disturbing or threatening thoughts from becoming
conscious.

.Denial defense mechanism - Answers-blocking external events from awareness

.Freudes Pschosexual stages - Answers-Oral, Anal, Phallic, Latency, Genital

.Freudes Oedipus/Electra Complex - Answers-Part of the phallic stage, boys experience
castration anxiety and girls experience penis envy,

.Fixation - Answers-obtaining type of gratifical tha twas appropriate for early stage of
development

.Where was Freude right w.r.t. personality growth and development - Answers-Early
experiences strongly impact later behavior, individuals pas through discrete biologically
based stages of development

.Limitations to Freudes theory on personality - Answers-narrow sample, ambiguous ill
defined concepts, concepts that are hard to observe/measure

.contributions from Freudes theory on personality - Answers-attention to importance of
children's experience, attention to complexity of human behavior

.Humanistic Theories - Answers-ppl need to be understood in terms of how they view
themselves and their social worlds, perception is interpretive an dsubjective

.Carle Rogers founder of what theory? - Answers-Person-Centered Theory (A
Humanistic Theory)

.Person Centered Theory - Answers-ppl are positive and well intentioned, have
actualization tendencies

.Actualization tendencies - Answers-part of person centered theory, inner strivings to
maximize one's potential

.Maslows hierarchy of needs part of what theory? - Answers-Humanistic theory