Psych 2 - Unit 3 Review - Personality

What do we call an individual's characteristic pattern of thinking, feeling, and acting?

• personality

• psychoanalysis

• psychodynamic

• preconscious

What did Sigmund Freud call his therapeutic approach?

• preconscious

• psychodynamic

• psychoanalysis

• personality

Freud believed he could help patients heal by opening the door to

• the preconscious mind

• the unconscious mind

• the human mind

• the conscious mind

Which of the following anxiety-provoking behaviors can be explained by the defense mechanism of rationalization?

• A thief who mistrusts others thinks everyone else is a thief

• A boss becomes upset and yells at an employee, who later yells at his wife

• A smoker refuses to admit she might become addicted to cigarettes

• A person who overeats says it's okay because he will diet tomorrow

According to neo-Freudian Alfred Adler, what do we call our organization of thoughts based on our perceived shortcomings or mistakes?

• the collective unconscious

• personality development

• psychodynamic theory

• an inferiority complex

What did neo-Freudian Karen Horney believe was the foundation of personality development?

• cultural variables and social expectations

• the collective unconscious

• helplessness and isolation

• differences between males and females

Which of the following defines humanistic psychology?

• an ultimate psychological need that arises after basic physical and psychological needs are met and self-esteem is achieved

• focus on the study of conscious experience, the individual's freedom to choose, and the individual's capacity for personal growth

• a condition that comes from being unable to compensate for normal inferiority feelings

• the need to love and be loved, to belong and be accepted, and to avoid loneliness and separation

Which of the following defines self-actualization?

• the need to love and be loved, to belong and be accepted, and to avoid loneliness and separation

• an ultimate psychological need that arises after basic physical and psychological needs are met and self-esteem is achieved

• a condition that comes from being unable to compensate for normal inferiority feelings

• focus on the study of conscious experience, the individual's freedom to choose, and the individual's capacity for personal growth

What did Abraham Maslow call his theory that proposes we must satisfy our basic psychological needs before we can try to meet higher-level safety and psychological needs?

• the psychodynamic perspective

• the hierarchy of needs

• the psychosexual stages

• humanistic psychology

Humanistic psychologists believe that the way you describe yourself and the way you'd like to describe yourself should overlap. What is this called?

• unconditional positive regard

• self-actualization

• the hierarchy of needs

• self-concept