Psych CH 11

Front

Characteristics that can describe your personality:
1. Happy, sad, impatient, shy, fearful, curious, helpful
2. Tall, short, fast, slow, strong, weak, tired
3. Blue, green, red, yellow, orange, purple, pink
4. Square, circle, triangle, rectangle, oval, diamond, star

Back

Happy, sad, impatient, shy, fearful, curious, helpful

Front

According to Hippocrates, what are the four separate temperaments associated with four fluids ('humors') of the body?

Back

Choleric, melancholic, sanguine, phlegmatic.

Front

What is the pseudoscience of measuring the areas of a person's skull to assess personality traits called?

Back

Phrenology.

Front

Who was the first to systematically study and theorize the workings of the unconscious mind in a manner that we associate with modern psychology?

Back

Sigmund Freud.

Front

Freud's psychodynamic perspective of personality was the first comprehensive theory of personality, explaining a wide variety of both normal and abnormal behaviors.

Back

True

Front

According to Galen, which temperament is described as reserved, anxious, and unhappy?

Back

Melancholic.

Front

According to Freud, what part of our mind contains unacceptable urges and desires that are kept hidden through a process called repression?

Back

The unconscious

Front

What is the function of the ego according to Freud?

Back

To balance the id's desires with the moral control of the superego

Front

Freud compared the mind to an iceberg to explain the concept of conscious versus unconscious experience.

Back

True

Front

According to Freud, the ______ operates on the pleasure principle and seeks immediate gratification of impulses for hunger, thirst, and sex.

Back

id