PERSONALITY PSYCHOLOGY STUDY GUIDE QUESTIONS
AND ANSWERS GRADED A+
✔✔What is the original name of the "unconscious"? - ✔✔second mind
✔✔The horrors of the World War influenced Freud to write this book, a dark account of
human nature. - ✔✔Civilization and Its Discontents
✔✔What is the personality? - ✔✔Personality is the set of psychological traits and
mechanisms within the individual that are organized and relatively enduring and that
influence his or her interaction with, and adaptation to the environment
✔✔3 environment - ✔✔physical / social/ intrapsychic
✔✔3 levels of personality analysis
human nature - ✔✔everyone
✔✔3 levels of personality analysis
individual & group difference - ✔✔specific group to compare
✔✔3 levels of personality analysis
individual uniqueness - ✔✔single person
✔✔how are groups created - ✔✔created by the researcher
already exist
✔✔phrenology - ✔✔Franz Joseph Gall
✔✔Phrenology
popular in where? - ✔✔Europe and North America
✔✔5 crieteria - ✔✔comprehensiveness （包括生）
heuristic value （発見的価値）
testability （精練可能な）
parsimony(けち)
compatibility&intergration across other domain
✔✔what was the basic sours of psychic energy? - ✔✔instincts
✔✔Who Freud's original theory of instincts was influenced by? - ✔✔Darwin's theory of
evolution
, ✔✔What is the two fundamental categories of instincts ? - ✔✔self preservation instincts
and sexual instincts
✔✔what is called that Freud collapsed the self preservation ad sexual instincts into one
? - ✔✔life instinct
✔✔horrors of WW1, What Freud developed ? - ✔✔death instinct = thanatos
✔✔How does personality change occur? - ✔✔Personality change is redirection of
psychic energy
✔✔Amount of psychic energy ever change? - ✔✔NO
✔✔What is the mind of the part that contains all the thoughts, feelings, and perceptions
that you are presently aware of. - ✔✔conscious
✔✔What is the largest part of the human mind? Second mind - ✔✔unconscious
✔✔All kinds of unacceptable sexual and aggressive urges, thoughts and feelings might
accumulate in where? - ✔✔unconscious
✔✔most symptoms of mental illness are caused by what? - ✔✔unconscious motivation
✔✔cure for symptoms? - ✔✔uncover unconscious cause = dream
✔✔0000 determines what is right and what is wrong - ✔✔superego
✔✔0000 is part of the mind that internalized the values, morals and ideas of society. -
✔✔superego
✔✔0000 is the part of personality that makes us feel guilty, ashamed, or embarrassed
when we do something wrong and makes us feel pride when we do something right. -
✔✔superego
✔✔0000 as something we are born with and as the sours of all drives and urges. - ✔✔id
✔✔000 also operates with primary process thinking - ✔✔id
✔✔mental energy is invested in that fantasy, and the urge is temporary satisfied. This
process is called ....? - ✔✔wish fulfillment
✔✔0000 is the part of the mind that contains the id to reality - ✔✔ego
AND ANSWERS GRADED A+
✔✔What is the original name of the "unconscious"? - ✔✔second mind
✔✔The horrors of the World War influenced Freud to write this book, a dark account of
human nature. - ✔✔Civilization and Its Discontents
✔✔What is the personality? - ✔✔Personality is the set of psychological traits and
mechanisms within the individual that are organized and relatively enduring and that
influence his or her interaction with, and adaptation to the environment
✔✔3 environment - ✔✔physical / social/ intrapsychic
✔✔3 levels of personality analysis
human nature - ✔✔everyone
✔✔3 levels of personality analysis
individual & group difference - ✔✔specific group to compare
✔✔3 levels of personality analysis
individual uniqueness - ✔✔single person
✔✔how are groups created - ✔✔created by the researcher
already exist
✔✔phrenology - ✔✔Franz Joseph Gall
✔✔Phrenology
popular in where? - ✔✔Europe and North America
✔✔5 crieteria - ✔✔comprehensiveness （包括生）
heuristic value （発見的価値）
testability （精練可能な）
parsimony(けち)
compatibility&intergration across other domain
✔✔what was the basic sours of psychic energy? - ✔✔instincts
✔✔Who Freud's original theory of instincts was influenced by? - ✔✔Darwin's theory of
evolution
, ✔✔What is the two fundamental categories of instincts ? - ✔✔self preservation instincts
and sexual instincts
✔✔what is called that Freud collapsed the self preservation ad sexual instincts into one
? - ✔✔life instinct
✔✔horrors of WW1, What Freud developed ? - ✔✔death instinct = thanatos
✔✔How does personality change occur? - ✔✔Personality change is redirection of
psychic energy
✔✔Amount of psychic energy ever change? - ✔✔NO
✔✔What is the mind of the part that contains all the thoughts, feelings, and perceptions
that you are presently aware of. - ✔✔conscious
✔✔What is the largest part of the human mind? Second mind - ✔✔unconscious
✔✔All kinds of unacceptable sexual and aggressive urges, thoughts and feelings might
accumulate in where? - ✔✔unconscious
✔✔most symptoms of mental illness are caused by what? - ✔✔unconscious motivation
✔✔cure for symptoms? - ✔✔uncover unconscious cause = dream
✔✔0000 determines what is right and what is wrong - ✔✔superego
✔✔0000 is part of the mind that internalized the values, morals and ideas of society. -
✔✔superego
✔✔0000 is the part of personality that makes us feel guilty, ashamed, or embarrassed
when we do something wrong and makes us feel pride when we do something right. -
✔✔superego
✔✔0000 as something we are born with and as the sours of all drives and urges. - ✔✔id
✔✔000 also operates with primary process thinking - ✔✔id
✔✔mental energy is invested in that fantasy, and the urge is temporary satisfied. This
process is called ....? - ✔✔wish fulfillment
✔✔0000 is the part of the mind that contains the id to reality - ✔✔ego
