PERSONALITY PSYCHOLOGY FINAL EXAM 2025/2026
GRADED A
Personality - Dictionary definitions; State of being a person, Characteristics and qualities that form a
person's distinctive character, Sum total of a person's physical, mental, emotional, and social
characteristics
Psychological definition: Unique and relatively enduring internal and external aspects of a person's
character
Description is complex: Humans change according to different situations and people
Reliability - Consistency of response to a psychological assessment device
Self-Report Inventories - Subjective answer questions about behaviors and feelings in various
situations
Projective tests - Rorschach Inkblot Technique, Thematic Apperception Test, Word Association and
sentence completion
Behavioral assessment - Observer evaluates a person's behavior in a given situation (like during a
clinical interview)
MMPI (Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory) - A self-report inventory: True/false test that
consists of 478 statements about:
Physical and psychological health
Political and social attitudes
Educational, occupational, family and marital factors
Neurotic and psychotic behavior tendencies
Thematic Apperception test (TAT) - Look at vague pictures and tells the proctor what is going on, or
tell a story about the pictures.
Sentence completion - List of words is read one at a time to the patient, who is asked to respond
with the first word that comes to mind
,Independent variable - variable that is manipulated
Dependent variables - variables that are measured
experimental group - exposed to experimental treatments
control group - does not receive experimental treatment
Validity - Extent to which an assessment device measures what it is intended to measure
Case study - Detailed history of an individual - primary clinical method
Word association test - Projective technique in which a person responds to a stimulus word with
whatever word comes to mind
Rorschach inkblot test - Projective test; a set of 10 inkblots, designed by Hermann Rorschach; seeks
to identify people's inner feelings by analyzing their interpretations of the blots
Thought and experience sampling - records thoughts and moods in a systematic manner
Participants are asked to describe social and environmental context in which the experience being
sampled occurs
Clinical interviews - Involves asking relevant questions about:
Past and present life experiences
Social and family relationships
Reasons for seeking psychological help
Online test administration - Psychological tests, opinion surveys, and subject responses to
experimental stimuli
Correlational method - Measures the degree of relationship between two variables
, Conscious - The _____ includes all the sensations and experiences of which we are aware at any
given moment.
questionnaire - All of the following are associated with Freud's investigation of the unconscious
except:
a. dream analysis.
b. questionnaires.
c. resistances.
d. free association.
b. Freud failed to consider the impact of biological forces. - All of the following are valid criticisms of
Freudian psychoanalysis except that:
a. Freud focused too much on past behavior.
b. Freud failed to consider the impact of biological forces.
c. Freud's definitions are somewhat ambiguous.
d. Freud did not study emotionally healthy persons.
life instincts - According to Freud, _____ serve the purpose of survival of the individual and the
species by seeking to satisfy the needs for food, water, air, and sex.
psychoanalysis - Sigmund Freud's theory of personality and system of therapy for treating mental
disorders is known as _____.
anxiety - Freud made _____ an important part of his personality theory, asserting that it is
fundamental to the development of all neurotic and psychotic behavior.
a. anal stage. - In children, temper tantrums, manipulating parents, and destructive behaviors are
formed in the:
id - Of the three levels of personality, the _____ strives for immediate satisfaction of its needs and
does not tolerate delay or postponement of satisfaction for any reason.
degrading - Paradoxical to his own theory, Freud believed that the sex act was _____.
GRADED A
Personality - Dictionary definitions; State of being a person, Characteristics and qualities that form a
person's distinctive character, Sum total of a person's physical, mental, emotional, and social
characteristics
Psychological definition: Unique and relatively enduring internal and external aspects of a person's
character
Description is complex: Humans change according to different situations and people
Reliability - Consistency of response to a psychological assessment device
Self-Report Inventories - Subjective answer questions about behaviors and feelings in various
situations
Projective tests - Rorschach Inkblot Technique, Thematic Apperception Test, Word Association and
sentence completion
Behavioral assessment - Observer evaluates a person's behavior in a given situation (like during a
clinical interview)
MMPI (Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory) - A self-report inventory: True/false test that
consists of 478 statements about:
Physical and psychological health
Political and social attitudes
Educational, occupational, family and marital factors
Neurotic and psychotic behavior tendencies
Thematic Apperception test (TAT) - Look at vague pictures and tells the proctor what is going on, or
tell a story about the pictures.
Sentence completion - List of words is read one at a time to the patient, who is asked to respond
with the first word that comes to mind
,Independent variable - variable that is manipulated
Dependent variables - variables that are measured
experimental group - exposed to experimental treatments
control group - does not receive experimental treatment
Validity - Extent to which an assessment device measures what it is intended to measure
Case study - Detailed history of an individual - primary clinical method
Word association test - Projective technique in which a person responds to a stimulus word with
whatever word comes to mind
Rorschach inkblot test - Projective test; a set of 10 inkblots, designed by Hermann Rorschach; seeks
to identify people's inner feelings by analyzing their interpretations of the blots
Thought and experience sampling - records thoughts and moods in a systematic manner
Participants are asked to describe social and environmental context in which the experience being
sampled occurs
Clinical interviews - Involves asking relevant questions about:
Past and present life experiences
Social and family relationships
Reasons for seeking psychological help
Online test administration - Psychological tests, opinion surveys, and subject responses to
experimental stimuli
Correlational method - Measures the degree of relationship between two variables
, Conscious - The _____ includes all the sensations and experiences of which we are aware at any
given moment.
questionnaire - All of the following are associated with Freud's investigation of the unconscious
except:
a. dream analysis.
b. questionnaires.
c. resistances.
d. free association.
b. Freud failed to consider the impact of biological forces. - All of the following are valid criticisms of
Freudian psychoanalysis except that:
a. Freud focused too much on past behavior.
b. Freud failed to consider the impact of biological forces.
c. Freud's definitions are somewhat ambiguous.
d. Freud did not study emotionally healthy persons.
life instincts - According to Freud, _____ serve the purpose of survival of the individual and the
species by seeking to satisfy the needs for food, water, air, and sex.
psychoanalysis - Sigmund Freud's theory of personality and system of therapy for treating mental
disorders is known as _____.
anxiety - Freud made _____ an important part of his personality theory, asserting that it is
fundamental to the development of all neurotic and psychotic behavior.
a. anal stage. - In children, temper tantrums, manipulating parents, and destructive behaviors are
formed in the:
id - Of the three levels of personality, the _____ strives for immediate satisfaction of its needs and
does not tolerate delay or postponement of satisfaction for any reason.
degrading - Paradoxical to his own theory, Freud believed that the sex act was _____.
