Unit 4B Personality

Freud believed this part of the personality represents uncontrolled impulses and urges

• Id
• Ego
• Superego
• Collective Unconscious

Soldiers exposed to traumatic experiences in concentration camps during wartime sometimes had amnesia and were unable to recall any part of their ordeal.

• Regression
• Rationalization
• Intellectualization
• Repression

interaction of behavior, cognitions, and environment make up you.

• Collectivistic

• Regression

• Reciprocal Determinism

• Locus of Control

Tests that present ambiguous stimuli designed to uncover hidden personality dynamics are called ______ tests

• empirical

• projective

• multiphasic personality

• factor analytic

• aptitude

Carl Rogers believed that in order to be a fully-functioning individual, you must

• have a strong ego

• possess an optimistic explanatory style

• challenge your feelings of inferiority

• receive unconditional positive regard

• perceive an internal locus of control

Carl Rogers suggested that those who fall far short of their ideal self experience

• a self-serving bias

• a negative self-concept

• an external locus of control

• a weak superego

• an internal locus of control

Which personality theorists have been most clearly credited with encouraging the popular belief that a positive self-concept is the key to happiness and success?

• psychoanalytic theorists

• social-cognitive theorists

• humanistic theorists

• trait theorists

• terror-management theorists

A psychotherapist instructs Dane to relax, close his eyes, and state aloud whatever thoughts come to mind no matter how trivial or absurd. The therapist is using a technique known as

• fixation

• free association

• factor analysis

• hypnosis

• projection

Personality is best defined as an individual's

• characteristic pattern of thinking, feeling, and acting

• most noticeable characteristics

• biologically inherited temperament

• hidden thoughts and actions

• unconscious thoughts and actions

Attributing unacceptable impulses and thoughts to others, according to Freud.

• Rationalization
• Reaction Formation
• Projection
• Sublimation