Psychology Exam test questions and
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Personality - ANS✅✅A pattern of enduring, distinctive thoughts, emotions, and behaviors that
characterize the way an individual adapts to the world.
Psychodynamic Perspective - ANS✅✅Views of personality as primarily unconsciously and as
developing in stages. Most psychoanalytic perspectives emphasize that early experiences with
parents play a role in sculpting personality.
Id - ANS✅✅The Freudian structure of personality that consists of unconscious drives and is the
individual's reservoir of psychic energy.
Ego - ANS✅✅The Freudian structure of personality that deals with the demands of reality.
Superego - ANS✅✅The Freudian structure of personality that harshly judges the morality of our
behavior.
Defense Mechanisms - ANS✅✅The ego's protective methods for reducing anxiety by
unconsciously distorting reality.
Repression - ANS✅✅The master defense mechanism; the ego pushes unacceptable impulses out
of awareness, back into the unconscious mind.
Rationalization - ANS✅✅The ego replaces a less acceptable motive with a more acceptable one.
Displacement - ANS✅✅The ego shifts feelings toward an unacceptable object to another, more
acceptable object.
Sublimation - ANS✅✅The ego replaces an unacceptable impulse with a socially acceptable one.
Projection - ANS✅✅The ego attributes personal shortcomings, problems, and faults to others.
, Reaction Formation - ANS✅✅The ego transforms an unacceptable motive into its opposite.
Denial - ANS✅✅The ego refuses to acknowledge anxiety-producing realities.
Regression - ANS✅✅The ego seeks the security of an earlier developmental period in the face of
stress.
Oedipus Complex - ANS✅✅In Freud's theory, a young boy's intense desire to replace his father
and enjoy the affections of his mother.
Collective Unconscious - ANS✅✅Jung's term for the impersonal, deepest layer of the unconscious
mind, shared by all human beings because of their common ancestral past.
Archetypes - ANS✅✅The name Jung gave to the emotionally laden ideas and images that have rich
and symbolic meaning for all people.
Human Perspectives - ANS✅✅Views of personality that stress the person's capacity for personal
growth, freedom to choose a destiny, and positive qualities.
Self-Concept - ANS✅✅A central theme in Roger's and other humanists' views; refers to individuals'
overall perceptions and assessments of their abilities, behavior, and personalities.
Unconditional Positive Regard - ANS✅✅Roger's term for accepting, valuing, and being positive
toward another person regardless of the person's behavior.
Trait - ANS✅✅An enduring personality characteristic that tends to lead to certain behaviors.
Trait Theories - ANS✅✅Theories stating that personality consists of broad, enduring dispositions
(traits) that tend to lead to characteristic responses.
Big Five Factors of Personality - ANS✅✅The "supertraits" that are thought to describe the main
dimensions of personality - specifically, neuroticism (emotional instability), extraversion, openness
to experience, agreeableness, and conscientiousness.
answers graded A+
Personality - ANS✅✅A pattern of enduring, distinctive thoughts, emotions, and behaviors that
characterize the way an individual adapts to the world.
Psychodynamic Perspective - ANS✅✅Views of personality as primarily unconsciously and as
developing in stages. Most psychoanalytic perspectives emphasize that early experiences with
parents play a role in sculpting personality.
Id - ANS✅✅The Freudian structure of personality that consists of unconscious drives and is the
individual's reservoir of psychic energy.
Ego - ANS✅✅The Freudian structure of personality that deals with the demands of reality.
Superego - ANS✅✅The Freudian structure of personality that harshly judges the morality of our
behavior.
Defense Mechanisms - ANS✅✅The ego's protective methods for reducing anxiety by
unconsciously distorting reality.
Repression - ANS✅✅The master defense mechanism; the ego pushes unacceptable impulses out
of awareness, back into the unconscious mind.
Rationalization - ANS✅✅The ego replaces a less acceptable motive with a more acceptable one.
Displacement - ANS✅✅The ego shifts feelings toward an unacceptable object to another, more
acceptable object.
Sublimation - ANS✅✅The ego replaces an unacceptable impulse with a socially acceptable one.
Projection - ANS✅✅The ego attributes personal shortcomings, problems, and faults to others.
, Reaction Formation - ANS✅✅The ego transforms an unacceptable motive into its opposite.
Denial - ANS✅✅The ego refuses to acknowledge anxiety-producing realities.
Regression - ANS✅✅The ego seeks the security of an earlier developmental period in the face of
stress.
Oedipus Complex - ANS✅✅In Freud's theory, a young boy's intense desire to replace his father
and enjoy the affections of his mother.
Collective Unconscious - ANS✅✅Jung's term for the impersonal, deepest layer of the unconscious
mind, shared by all human beings because of their common ancestral past.
Archetypes - ANS✅✅The name Jung gave to the emotionally laden ideas and images that have rich
and symbolic meaning for all people.
Human Perspectives - ANS✅✅Views of personality that stress the person's capacity for personal
growth, freedom to choose a destiny, and positive qualities.
Self-Concept - ANS✅✅A central theme in Roger's and other humanists' views; refers to individuals'
overall perceptions and assessments of their abilities, behavior, and personalities.
Unconditional Positive Regard - ANS✅✅Roger's term for accepting, valuing, and being positive
toward another person regardless of the person's behavior.
Trait - ANS✅✅An enduring personality characteristic that tends to lead to certain behaviors.
Trait Theories - ANS✅✅Theories stating that personality consists of broad, enduring dispositions
(traits) that tend to lead to characteristic responses.
Big Five Factors of Personality - ANS✅✅The "supertraits" that are thought to describe the main
dimensions of personality - specifically, neuroticism (emotional instability), extraversion, openness
to experience, agreeableness, and conscientiousness.
