Personality Psychology Exam Questions With
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Carl Rogers - Answer✔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 - Answer✔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) - Answer✔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 - Answer✔Extraversion, Neuroticism, Openness to Experiences,
Agreeableness, Conscientiousness
Reciprocal Determinism - Answer✔the interacting influences between personality and
environmental factors.
External Locus of Control - Answer✔the perception that chance or outside forces beyond one's
personal control determine one's fate
Internal Locus of Control - Answer✔the perception that one controls one's own fate.
Preconscious - Answer✔in Freud's theory, the level of consciousness in which thoughts and
feelings are not conscious but are readily retrieveable to consciousness
Collective Unconscious - Answer✔Carl Jung's concept of a shared, inherited reservoir of
memory traces from our species' history
Archetypes - Answer✔ideas and images of the accumulated experience of all human beings
Thematic Aperception Test (TAT) - Answer✔-pictures & stories test
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