PERSONALITY PSYCHOLOGY EXPECTED
QUESTIONS WITH VERIFIED ANSWERS (2026)
●● Public Self
Answer: The personality or traits you wish to convey to the rest of the
world; how you want to be seen
●● Private Self
Answer: The personality or traits you keep within; the side of you, you
may deem unfit for the rest of society to view
●● Creative Illusionism
Answer: Observing a particular behaviors or traits, and proposing a
theory from these observations, often self-reflective. Theorists then look
to validate these theories by observing them in others (consensual
validation)
●● Components of Adequate Theories
Answer: "Reality", "Normal" & Pathological Processes, Change Process
& Development. Serve as a "road map" to the human psyche
●● Personality/Character
,Answer: includes (but not limited to): behavior, thoughts, feelings
●● nomothetic
Answer: Seeking to formulate laws; can describe a wide range of people.
Aristole had this type of theory
●● idiographic
Answer: pertaining to an individual case; describes a single person. May
be enough to refute a common law. Galileo has this type of theory
●● psychic determinism
Answer: Events have observable and non-observable characteristics;
everything happens with a reason, known or unknown, especially related
to psychological events
The idea that the mind is an active system
●● parapraxis
Answer: Everyday psychosis; something irrational that has some
unconscious reasoning and is unknown unless further explored; reveals
repressed motives (eg. slip of a tongue)
●● Free association
, Answer: Method of psychoanalysis in which an individual says
everything that comes to mind, and the therapist is out of view. Helps
uncover the unconscious meanings of things.
●● Topographical Theory
Answer: One of Freud's Theory involving the different mental processes
including: Conscious, Preconscious, Censor System (Defense
Mechanisms), Unconscious & Repressed
●● Conscious
Answer: The thoughts of your brain that you are currently aware of
●● Preconscious
Answer: The thoughts of your brain that you are not currently aware of,
but can be brought into conscious awareness with the correct
stimuli/arousal
●● Unconscious
Answer: Majority of your brains thoughts; involves those thoughts you
are not conscious of, and are not easily brought into consciousness
●● Repressed Content
Answer: Part of your unconscious where painful events are stored, very
DEEP in your unconscious (basically forget that this area exists)
QUESTIONS WITH VERIFIED ANSWERS (2026)
●● Public Self
Answer: The personality or traits you wish to convey to the rest of the
world; how you want to be seen
●● Private Self
Answer: The personality or traits you keep within; the side of you, you
may deem unfit for the rest of society to view
●● Creative Illusionism
Answer: Observing a particular behaviors or traits, and proposing a
theory from these observations, often self-reflective. Theorists then look
to validate these theories by observing them in others (consensual
validation)
●● Components of Adequate Theories
Answer: "Reality", "Normal" & Pathological Processes, Change Process
& Development. Serve as a "road map" to the human psyche
●● Personality/Character
,Answer: includes (but not limited to): behavior, thoughts, feelings
●● nomothetic
Answer: Seeking to formulate laws; can describe a wide range of people.
Aristole had this type of theory
●● idiographic
Answer: pertaining to an individual case; describes a single person. May
be enough to refute a common law. Galileo has this type of theory
●● psychic determinism
Answer: Events have observable and non-observable characteristics;
everything happens with a reason, known or unknown, especially related
to psychological events
The idea that the mind is an active system
●● parapraxis
Answer: Everyday psychosis; something irrational that has some
unconscious reasoning and is unknown unless further explored; reveals
repressed motives (eg. slip of a tongue)
●● Free association
, Answer: Method of psychoanalysis in which an individual says
everything that comes to mind, and the therapist is out of view. Helps
uncover the unconscious meanings of things.
●● Topographical Theory
Answer: One of Freud's Theory involving the different mental processes
including: Conscious, Preconscious, Censor System (Defense
Mechanisms), Unconscious & Repressed
●● Conscious
Answer: The thoughts of your brain that you are currently aware of
●● Preconscious
Answer: The thoughts of your brain that you are not currently aware of,
but can be brought into conscious awareness with the correct
stimuli/arousal
●● Unconscious
Answer: Majority of your brains thoughts; involves those thoughts you
are not conscious of, and are not easily brought into consciousness
●● Repressed Content
Answer: Part of your unconscious where painful events are stored, very
DEEP in your unconscious (basically forget that this area exists)
