THEORIES OF PERSONALITY WGU D564
ACTUAL EXAM SOLVED QUESTIONS
COMPLETE PREPARATION RESOURCE
●● Animus
Answer: male component of the female psyche
●● Archetype
Answer: inherited predisposition to responds emotionally to certain
aspects of the world. All of these taken together make up the collective
unconscious.
penetrate through dreams, art, symptoms
anima/animus, persona, shadow, self
●● Attitudes
Answer: general orientations of the psyche when relating to the world.
The two basic attitudes are introversion and extroversion
●● Causality
Answer: belief that a person's personality can be explained in terms of
past experiences
●● Childhood
,Answer: stage of development that lasts from birth to adolescence
during which time libidinal energy is invested in learning the basic skills
necessary for survival and sexual activities
●● Collective Unconscious
Answer: collection of inherited predispositions that humans have to
respond to certain events. These predispositions come from the universal
experiences humans have had throughout their evolutionary past.
●● Complex
Answer: organized groups of thoughts, feelings, or memories about a
certain person or object.
exist in the personal unconscious.
●● Creative Illness
Answer: according to Ellenberger, a period of intense preoccupation
with a search for a particular truth. This search is usually accompanied
by depression, psychosomatic ailments, neuroses, and perhaps psychotic
episodes.
●● Extroversion
Answer: tendency to be externally oriented, confident, outgoing, and
gregarious
,●● Feeling
Answer: function of thought that determines whether an object or event
is valued positively or negatively
pleasure, pain, sorrow, love
●● Functions of Thought
Answer: determines how a person perceives the world and deals with
information and experience. The four functions of thought are sensing,
thinking, felling, and intuiting.
●● Individuation
Answer: process whereby a person comes to recognize the various
components of his or her psyche and gives them expression within the
context of his or her life. A process that is prerequisite to approximating
self-realization
●● Inflation of the Persona
Answer: condition that exists when one's persona is too highly valued
●● Introversion
Answer: Tendency to be internally oriented, quiet, subjective, and
nonsocial
●● Intuiting
, Answer: function of thought that makes hunches about objects or events
when factual information is not available.
●● Irrational Functions
Answer: Jung referred to sensing and intuiting as these because they do
not involve logical thought processess
●● Libido
Answer: According to Jung, the general life of energy that can be
directed to any problem that arises, be it biological or spiritual.
●● Mandala
Answer: Sanskrit word for circle. It is a symbol of wholeness,
completeness, and perfection; that is, it symbolizes the self
●● Middle Age
Answer: Stage of development that lasts from about forty to the later
years of life during which time libidinal energy is invested in
philosophical and spiritual pursuits. This stage is the most important.
●● Persona
Answer: superficial aspect of the psyche that a person displays publicly.
It includes the various roles one must play to function in society
ACTUAL EXAM SOLVED QUESTIONS
COMPLETE PREPARATION RESOURCE
●● Animus
Answer: male component of the female psyche
●● Archetype
Answer: inherited predisposition to responds emotionally to certain
aspects of the world. All of these taken together make up the collective
unconscious.
penetrate through dreams, art, symptoms
anima/animus, persona, shadow, self
●● Attitudes
Answer: general orientations of the psyche when relating to the world.
The two basic attitudes are introversion and extroversion
●● Causality
Answer: belief that a person's personality can be explained in terms of
past experiences
●● Childhood
,Answer: stage of development that lasts from birth to adolescence
during which time libidinal energy is invested in learning the basic skills
necessary for survival and sexual activities
●● Collective Unconscious
Answer: collection of inherited predispositions that humans have to
respond to certain events. These predispositions come from the universal
experiences humans have had throughout their evolutionary past.
●● Complex
Answer: organized groups of thoughts, feelings, or memories about a
certain person or object.
exist in the personal unconscious.
●● Creative Illness
Answer: according to Ellenberger, a period of intense preoccupation
with a search for a particular truth. This search is usually accompanied
by depression, psychosomatic ailments, neuroses, and perhaps psychotic
episodes.
●● Extroversion
Answer: tendency to be externally oriented, confident, outgoing, and
gregarious
,●● Feeling
Answer: function of thought that determines whether an object or event
is valued positively or negatively
pleasure, pain, sorrow, love
●● Functions of Thought
Answer: determines how a person perceives the world and deals with
information and experience. The four functions of thought are sensing,
thinking, felling, and intuiting.
●● Individuation
Answer: process whereby a person comes to recognize the various
components of his or her psyche and gives them expression within the
context of his or her life. A process that is prerequisite to approximating
self-realization
●● Inflation of the Persona
Answer: condition that exists when one's persona is too highly valued
●● Introversion
Answer: Tendency to be internally oriented, quiet, subjective, and
nonsocial
●● Intuiting
, Answer: function of thought that makes hunches about objects or events
when factual information is not available.
●● Irrational Functions
Answer: Jung referred to sensing and intuiting as these because they do
not involve logical thought processess
●● Libido
Answer: According to Jung, the general life of energy that can be
directed to any problem that arises, be it biological or spiritual.
●● Mandala
Answer: Sanskrit word for circle. It is a symbol of wholeness,
completeness, and perfection; that is, it symbolizes the self
●● Middle Age
Answer: Stage of development that lasts from about forty to the later
years of life during which time libidinal energy is invested in
philosophical and spiritual pursuits. This stage is the most important.
●● Persona
Answer: superficial aspect of the psyche that a person displays publicly.
It includes the various roles one must play to function in society
