Personality: Psychoanalytic and Humanistic Review

Which of the following places the greatest emphasis on the unconscious mind?

• The humanistic perspective

• The psychoanalytic perspective

• The trait approach

• The social cognitive approach

According to Freud, defense mechanisms are a method of reducing

• Anger

• Fear

• Lust

• Anxiety

The humanistic perspective on personality

• emphasizes the driving force of unconscious motivations on personality

• emphasizes the growth potential of "healthy" individuals

• emphasizes the importance of interaction with the environment in shaping personality

• describes personality in terms of scores on various personality scales

According to Rogers, three conditions are necessary to promote growth of personality. These are

• honesty, sincerity, empathy

• high self-esteem, honesty, and empathy

• high self concept, genuineness and acceptance

• genuineness, acceptance and empathy

For humanistic psychologists, many of our beliefs about ourselves and our PERCEPTIONS are ultimately shaped by whether our __________ is _________ or ____________.

• ego, strong, weak

• locus of control, internal, external

• self concept, positive, negative

• personality structure, introverted, extroverted

Id is to ego as __________ is to _____________

• reality, pleasure

• pleasure, reality

• conscious focus, unconscious focus

• conscience, congruence

Suzy bought a used, high mileage, gas guzzling car because it was all she could afford. She raves to her friends about the car's attractiveness and great sound system. Freud would say that to settle the anxiety about not having the greatest car she is using which defense mechanism?

• Repression

• Projection

• Rationalization

• Reaction Formation

Wanda wishes to still in her children an accepting attitude toward other people. Maslow and Rogers would probably recommend she

• teach her children to accept themselves

• use discipline sparingly

• be affectionate with her children only when they behave as she wants them to.

• All of the above

• Both A and C

Which is a common criticism of the humanistic perspective?

• The concepts are vague and subjective

• The emphasis on the self encourages selfishness in people

• Humanism fails to appreciate the reality of evil in human behavior

• All of the above

• Both A and C are correct

Professor Minton believes that people strive to find meaning in life because they are terrified of their own mortality. Evidently, Prof. Minton is a proponent of the

• terror management theory

• psycho-dynamic approach to personality

• real self vs. ideal self conflict

• id, ego and superego influences on our lives