GRE Psychology: PERSONALITY
UPDATED ACTUAL Questions and
CORRECT Answers
Endomorphous - CORRECT ANSWER - Body type relating to soft/spherical
Mesomorphous - CORRECT ANSWER - Body type relating to hard/muscular
Ectomorphy - CORRECT ANSWER - Body type relating to thin/fragile
Boring - CORRECT ANSWER - He postulated that the development of psychology is due
to Zeitgeist (changing of times)
Titchener - CORRECT ANSWER - His method of introspection helped form Structuralism
Freud's Theory of Personality - CORRECT ANSWER - His was the first comprehensive
theory on personality and abnormal psychology dubbed "psychoanalytic theory"
- structural dynamic
Humanism - CORRECT ANSWER - This system of thought arose in opposition to
psychoanalysis and behaviorism:
--> belief in free will and idea that people should be considered "wholes" rather than
stimuli/responses(behaviorism) and instincts (psychoanalysis)
- Maslow ---> Hierarchy of human needs
- Rogers ----> Client-Centered therapy
- Lewin----> Field Theory
- Kelly----> Self-Scientist
,4 Types of Personality Theories - CORRECT ANSWER - 4 types of ________ theories:
1) Psychodynamic (psychoanalytic)
2) Behaviorist
3) Phenomenological
4) Type and trait
Psychodynamic (Psychoanalytic) Theory - CORRECT ANSWER - Curated by Freud:
- Unconscious internal states motivate external actions of people and determine personality
- CONFLICT OF UN/CONSCIOUS DRIVES IS CENTRAL
Structural model of mental life: Id/ Ego/ Superego
Id (PA) - CORRECT ANSWER - Part of the psychodynamic theory, it says that:
- This functions according to PLEASURE principle: discharge any energy and relieve tension
- Satisfaction NOW (image of food when hungry)
Ego (PA) - CORRECT ANSWER - Part of the psychodynamic theory that contains the
SECONDARY PROCESS:
- REALITY principle: organizes the id's urges to meet with objective reality (postpone urge until
solution is met)
, Superego (PA) - CORRECT ANSWER - Part of the psychodynamic theory that involves
PERSONALITY: right vs. wrong/learned social drives
- Conscience = maladaptive behavior and punishment
- Ego-ideal = appropriate behavior and reward
Instincts (PA) - CORRECT ANSWER - There are 2 types of _____ that propell
personality:
1) Life (Eros) = serve purpose of survival (food, sex)
2) Death (Thanatos) = self-destructive behavior
Conflict is between these two
Defense Mechanisms - CORRECT ANSWER - These are used by the Ego to help combat
unconscious/enviromental pressures and operate by:
1) deny/falsify/distrot reality
2) unconscious operation
Types of Defense - CORRECT ANSWER - 8 types of ________:
Repression/Suppression
Projection/rationalization
Reaction formation/sublimation
Regression/displacement
UPDATED ACTUAL Questions and
CORRECT Answers
Endomorphous - CORRECT ANSWER - Body type relating to soft/spherical
Mesomorphous - CORRECT ANSWER - Body type relating to hard/muscular
Ectomorphy - CORRECT ANSWER - Body type relating to thin/fragile
Boring - CORRECT ANSWER - He postulated that the development of psychology is due
to Zeitgeist (changing of times)
Titchener - CORRECT ANSWER - His method of introspection helped form Structuralism
Freud's Theory of Personality - CORRECT ANSWER - His was the first comprehensive
theory on personality and abnormal psychology dubbed "psychoanalytic theory"
- structural dynamic
Humanism - CORRECT ANSWER - This system of thought arose in opposition to
psychoanalysis and behaviorism:
--> belief in free will and idea that people should be considered "wholes" rather than
stimuli/responses(behaviorism) and instincts (psychoanalysis)
- Maslow ---> Hierarchy of human needs
- Rogers ----> Client-Centered therapy
- Lewin----> Field Theory
- Kelly----> Self-Scientist
,4 Types of Personality Theories - CORRECT ANSWER - 4 types of ________ theories:
1) Psychodynamic (psychoanalytic)
2) Behaviorist
3) Phenomenological
4) Type and trait
Psychodynamic (Psychoanalytic) Theory - CORRECT ANSWER - Curated by Freud:
- Unconscious internal states motivate external actions of people and determine personality
- CONFLICT OF UN/CONSCIOUS DRIVES IS CENTRAL
Structural model of mental life: Id/ Ego/ Superego
Id (PA) - CORRECT ANSWER - Part of the psychodynamic theory, it says that:
- This functions according to PLEASURE principle: discharge any energy and relieve tension
- Satisfaction NOW (image of food when hungry)
Ego (PA) - CORRECT ANSWER - Part of the psychodynamic theory that contains the
SECONDARY PROCESS:
- REALITY principle: organizes the id's urges to meet with objective reality (postpone urge until
solution is met)
, Superego (PA) - CORRECT ANSWER - Part of the psychodynamic theory that involves
PERSONALITY: right vs. wrong/learned social drives
- Conscience = maladaptive behavior and punishment
- Ego-ideal = appropriate behavior and reward
Instincts (PA) - CORRECT ANSWER - There are 2 types of _____ that propell
personality:
1) Life (Eros) = serve purpose of survival (food, sex)
2) Death (Thanatos) = self-destructive behavior
Conflict is between these two
Defense Mechanisms - CORRECT ANSWER - These are used by the Ego to help combat
unconscious/enviromental pressures and operate by:
1) deny/falsify/distrot reality
2) unconscious operation
Types of Defense - CORRECT ANSWER - 8 types of ________:
Repression/Suppression
Projection/rationalization
Reaction formation/sublimation
Regression/displacement
