Psychology- Personality Review

The psychological term for an individual's characteristic pattern of thinking, feeling, and acting is:

• personality

• psychodynamic

• temperament

• unconscious.

The founder of psychoanalysis was:

• Carl Jung

• Carl Rogers

• Karen Horney

• Sigmund Freud

The view of personality that explains personality as being driven by unconscious thought processes is the:

• humanistic perspective

• personality psychology

• psychodynamic perspective

• unconscious perspective

The psychoanalytic technique that involves asking a person to relax and say whatever is on his mind without censoring himself is called:

• free association

• Freudian slips

• psychodynamic

• unconscious speaking

According to psychoanalytic theory, the part of the personality that strives for immediate gratification of basic drives is the:

• unconscious

• ego

• id

• superego

If a child encounters a particularly stressful situation, Freud would say it is likely the child will ________ the experience.

• banish

• free associate

• repress

• reject

Dr. Harris asks his patient to relax and say whatever comes to mind, regardless of how trivial or embarrassing the statements might be. Dr. Harris is most likely a:

• humanist

• behaviorist

• psychoanalyst

• neurologist

Contemporary psychologists agree that childhood experiences shape personalities. How do these researchers differ from Freud?

• They offer evidence for both the Oedipal and Electra complexes that occur when a child is 5 years old.

• Although childhood is important, development needs to be seen as a lifelong process not fixed in childhood.

• They believe that Freud may have underestimated parental influence on early development.

• Research suggests that the neural network of children aged 3 and younger is sufficiently developed to sustain the emotional trauma Freud described.

A psychodynamic psychologist would be most interested in assessing personality by:

• administering a test with a series of true and false questions.

• asking individuals to complete a report comparing the real and ideal self

• conduct an experiment to study how different situations affect people's attitudes and behavior.

• using tests of ambiguous stimuli to trigger projection of inner thoughts and feelings

A psychologist who would be most interested in assessing personality by asking individuals to complete a report comparing the real and ideal self is likely a...

• humanist

• psychoanalyst

• behaviorist

• neurologist