Ch 2 Personality and Self Esteeem

What does self-actualization mean?

• having high self-esteem

• striving to become your best

• recognizing your own value

• becoming autonomous

A person who studies how people think, feel, and behave.

• psychologist

• modeling

• peer group

• self-actualization

Learning how to behave by copying the behavior of others.

• coping strategy

• modeling

• peer group

• emotion

A group of people who are about the same age and share similar interests.

• identity

• modeling

• peer group

• defense mechanism

A sense of self

• emotion

• self-actualization

• modeling

• identity

Personality traits are influenced by a combination of HEREDITY and ENVIRONMENT.

• TRUE

• FALSE

Of the 5 central traits that researchers use to describe how people behave, relate to others, & react to change, which one does NOT belong?

• Extroversion

• Agreeableness

• Conscientiousness

• Playfulness

• Openness to Experiences

The process by which people achieve their full potential.

• modeling

• hierarchy of needs

• learned emotion

• self-actualization

At what life stage does the search for identity begin?

• toddler

• teenager

• middle adulthood

• late adulthood

Your opinion of yourself; how much you respect and like yourself.

• emotion

• self-esteem

• learned emotion

• identity