Test Bank Questions with Answers for Personality Theories 9th Edition. Graded A+
Anima - Answers female component of the male psyche
Animus - Answers male component of the female psyche
Archetype - Answers 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 - Answers general orientations of the psyche when relating to the world. The two basic
attitudes are introversion and extroversion
Causality - Answers belief that a person's personality can be explained in terms of past experiences
Childhood - Answers 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 - Answers 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 - Answers organized groups of thoughts, feelings, or memories about a certain person or
object.
exist in the personal unconscious.
Creative Illness - Answers 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 - Answers tendency to be externally oriented, confident, outgoing, and gregarious
Feeling - Answers function of thought that determines whether an object or event is valued positively or
negatively
pleasure, pain, sorrow, love
Functions of Thought - Answers 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 - Answers 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 - Answers condition that exists when one's persona is too highly valued
Introversion - Answers Tendency to be internally oriented, quiet, subjective, and nonsocial
Intuiting - Answers function of thought that makes hunches about objects or events when factual
information is not available.
Irrational Functions - Answers Jung referred to sensing and intuiting as these because they do not
involve logical thought processess
Libido - Answers According to Jung, the general life of energy that can be directed to any problem that
arises, be it biological or spiritual.
Mandala - Answers Sanskrit word for circle. It is a symbol of wholeness, completeness, and perfection;
that is, it symbolizes the self
Middle Age - Answers 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 - Answers superficial aspect of the psyche that a person displays publicly. It includes the various
roles one must play to function in society
Personal Unconscious - Answers consists of material from one's lifetime that was once conscious and
then repressed or material that was not vivid enough to make an initial conscious impression.
recall
Principle of Entropy - Answers second law of thermodynamics that states a constant tendency exists
toward equalizing energy
Principle of Equivalence - Answers first law of thermodynamics that states the amount of energy in a
system is fixed and, therefore if some of it is removed from one part of the system, it must show up in
another part.
Principle of Opposites - Answers contention that each component of the psyche has an opposite
Psyche - Answers term that Jung equated with personality
Rational Functions - Answers Jung referred to thinking and feeling as these because they involve making
judgments and evaluations about experiences
Self - Answers state of the psyche if the individuation process has been completely successful. when the
various components of the psyche are harmonized, the self becomes the center of all the various
opposing psychic forces. the emerge of the self, coming into selfhood, and self-realization were
synonymously by Jung
Anima - Answers female component of the male psyche
Animus - Answers male component of the female psyche
Archetype - Answers 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 - Answers general orientations of the psyche when relating to the world. The two basic
attitudes are introversion and extroversion
Causality - Answers belief that a person's personality can be explained in terms of past experiences
Childhood - Answers 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 - Answers 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 - Answers organized groups of thoughts, feelings, or memories about a certain person or
object.
exist in the personal unconscious.
Creative Illness - Answers 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 - Answers tendency to be externally oriented, confident, outgoing, and gregarious
Feeling - Answers function of thought that determines whether an object or event is valued positively or
negatively
pleasure, pain, sorrow, love
Functions of Thought - Answers 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 - Answers 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 - Answers condition that exists when one's persona is too highly valued
Introversion - Answers Tendency to be internally oriented, quiet, subjective, and nonsocial
Intuiting - Answers function of thought that makes hunches about objects or events when factual
information is not available.
Irrational Functions - Answers Jung referred to sensing and intuiting as these because they do not
involve logical thought processess
Libido - Answers According to Jung, the general life of energy that can be directed to any problem that
arises, be it biological or spiritual.
Mandala - Answers Sanskrit word for circle. It is a symbol of wholeness, completeness, and perfection;
that is, it symbolizes the self
Middle Age - Answers 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 - Answers superficial aspect of the psyche that a person displays publicly. It includes the various
roles one must play to function in society
Personal Unconscious - Answers consists of material from one's lifetime that was once conscious and
then repressed or material that was not vivid enough to make an initial conscious impression.
recall
Principle of Entropy - Answers second law of thermodynamics that states a constant tendency exists
toward equalizing energy
Principle of Equivalence - Answers first law of thermodynamics that states the amount of energy in a
system is fixed and, therefore if some of it is removed from one part of the system, it must show up in
another part.
Principle of Opposites - Answers contention that each component of the psyche has an opposite
Psyche - Answers term that Jung equated with personality
Rational Functions - Answers Jung referred to thinking and feeling as these because they involve making
judgments and evaluations about experiences
Self - Answers state of the psyche if the individuation process has been completely successful. when the
various components of the psyche are harmonized, the self becomes the center of all the various
opposing psychic forces. the emerge of the self, coming into selfhood, and self-realization were
synonymously by Jung
