PSYC2301 Collin College -Psychology 2301 - Chapter 13 questions with answers

Psychology 2301 - Chapter 13 Personality - correct answer A combination of enduring and distinct patterns of behavior, thoughts, and emotions that are typical of an individual Theory of Personality - correct answer an organized attempt to describe and explain how personalities develop & why personalities differ Psychodynamic approaches to personality - correct answer Assume that personality is motivated by inner forces and conflicts about which people have little awareness and over which they have NO control Psychoanalytic theory - correct answer Freud's theory that unconscious forces act as determinants of personality Dream interpretation - correct answer Analyzing dreams based on the assumption that in our dream state we don't have a "censor" to filter access to deeply repressed thoughts Manifest content - correct answer Description of the actual dream Latent content - correct answer The true hidden meaning of the symbols in the manifest content of the dream Free association - correct answer Encouraging clients to talk about any thoughts or images that come into their heads...the premise being that the revelations will lead to clues to the unconscious thoughts Freudian slips - correct answer "mistakes" we make in everyday conversations where we say a word that we don't intend to that represents a true hidden or repressed thought. Id - correct answer Raw, unorganized, inborn part of personality Sole purpose is to reduce tension created by primitive drives