Personality IV

Mrs. Brownell was asked by her psychotherapist to describe what she saw in 10 ambiguous inkblots. Mrs. Brownell was most likely responding to a(n) _____ test.

• projective

• Thematic Apperception

• Multiphasic personality

• Aptitude

• Empirically Derived

Which neo-Freudian theorist emphasized that personality development is strongly influenced by feelings of inferiority?

• Jung
• Allport
• Horney
• Maslow
• Adler

Which of the following techniques was Freud most likely to use in an attempt to discover the hidden conflicts underlying his patients’ symptoms? (Two of these answers probably work, but one is definitely better)

• factor analysis

• projective testing

• free association

• fixation

• unconditional positive regard

Dan had a vivid dream that was strikingly similar to an ancient, but unfamiliar, religious myth. This coincidence would have been of particular interest to:

• Adler

• Jung

• Rogers

• Allport

• Horney

A student who will remain unnamed, is hostile, aggressive, socially destructive, and makes comments about preferring to be anywhere other than Mr. Cosey's class. According to Carl Rogers, this behavior results from

• reciprocal determinism

• a lack of unconditional positive regard in the student's life

• the collective unconscious

• inborn personality traits

• an internal locus of control

Adults who were victims of sexual abuse as adolescents are often haunted by persistent and vivid memories of this experience. This most clearly serves to challenge Freud’s concept of:

• free association
• learned helplennenss
• motivational conflict
• repression
• fixation

The pleasure principle is to the _____ as the reality principle is to the _____.

• Oral stage; anal stage
• Id; superego
• Id; ego
• Life instinct; death instinct
• Conscious; unconscious

During childhood, a boy’s sexual desires for his mother and feelings of hostility toward his father constitute what Freud called

• maximum creepiness

• Oedipus Complex

• reciprocal determinism

• oral fixation

• displacement

Carl Rogers emphasized the importance of

• the collective unconscious
• unconditional positive regard
• personality inventories
• reciprocal determinism
• free association

Zoey has frequently been rebellious, inconsiderate, and self-centered, yet the pastor of her local church has always accepted and respected her. The pastor’s attitude toward Zoey is most explicitly recommended by which of the following theorists?

• Horney

• Maslow

• Rogers

• Bandura

• Adler