PERSONALITY PSYCHOLOGY FINAL EXAM
COMPREHENSIVE QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
GRADED A+
◉ Preconscious (Freud).
Answer: Anything that can easily be made conscious.
◉ Unconscious (Freud).
Answer: All the things that are not easily available to awareness,
including many things that have their origins there.
Source of our motivations according to Freud.
◉ Id (Freud).
Answer: Translates the organisms needs into motivational forces,
which is translated into instincts or drives.
◉ Ego (Freud).
Answer: Relates the organism to reality by means of its
consciousness and it searches for objects to satisfy the wishes.
◉ Superego (Freud).
,Answer: A record of strategies to take and things to avoid in order to
satisfy the needs of the ego and Id.
◉ Primary Process.
Answer: The translation between need to wish (id --> ego)
◉ Secondary Process.
Answer: The problem solving activity when the ego turns into the
superego.
◉ Pleasure Principle.
Answer: The demand to take care of needs immediately.
◉ Reality Principle.
Answer: What the Ego Functions according to. "Take care of a need
as soon as the appropriate object is found".
◉ Conscience.
Answer: An internalization of punishments and warnings. Part of the
Superego.
◉ Ego Ideal.
,Answer: Derives from rewards and positive models presented to the
child. Communicates with the Conscious to the ego with feelings like
pride, shame and guilt.
◉ Realistic Anxiety.
Answer: What we would call fear.
◉ Neurotic Anxiety.
Answer: The fear of being overwhelmed by impulses from the Id.
◉ 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.
COMPREHENSIVE QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
GRADED A+
◉ Preconscious (Freud).
Answer: Anything that can easily be made conscious.
◉ Unconscious (Freud).
Answer: All the things that are not easily available to awareness,
including many things that have their origins there.
Source of our motivations according to Freud.
◉ Id (Freud).
Answer: Translates the organisms needs into motivational forces,
which is translated into instincts or drives.
◉ Ego (Freud).
Answer: Relates the organism to reality by means of its
consciousness and it searches for objects to satisfy the wishes.
◉ Superego (Freud).
,Answer: A record of strategies to take and things to avoid in order to
satisfy the needs of the ego and Id.
◉ Primary Process.
Answer: The translation between need to wish (id --> ego)
◉ Secondary Process.
Answer: The problem solving activity when the ego turns into the
superego.
◉ Pleasure Principle.
Answer: The demand to take care of needs immediately.
◉ Reality Principle.
Answer: What the Ego Functions according to. "Take care of a need
as soon as the appropriate object is found".
◉ Conscience.
Answer: An internalization of punishments and warnings. Part of the
Superego.
◉ Ego Ideal.
,Answer: Derives from rewards and positive models presented to the
child. Communicates with the Conscious to the ego with feelings like
pride, shame and guilt.
◉ Realistic Anxiety.
Answer: What we would call fear.
◉ Neurotic Anxiety.
Answer: The fear of being overwhelmed by impulses from the Id.
◉ 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.
