module 29

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

• personality
• psychodynamic
• temperament
• unconscious

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

• humanistic perspective.
•  personality psychology.
• psychodynamic perspective.unconscious perspective

Bruce’s therapist asks him to lay down and say “whatever comes to mind.”   The therapist is using

• regression
• projection
• unconditional positive regard.
• free association.

When 2-year-old Matthew was told he would get no dessert until he finished the food on his plate, he threw his plate on the floor in a temper tantrum.  Freud would have suggested that Matthew was unable to resist the demands of his:

• ego
• id
• superego
• Oedipus complex

Whenever 23-year-old Julie doesn’t get her way, she pouts like a child.  This is an example of:

• repression
• projection
• reaction formation.
• regression

The term “inferiority complex” was coined by:

•  Alfred Alder.
• Carl Jung. 
•  Carl Rogers.
• Sigmund Freud.

A projective test that involves telling stories about ambiguous pictures is most likely the:

• Denial Test.
• Free Association test.
• TAT
• WAIS

The psychodynamic theorists and the humanistic psychologists might disagree most about:

• how beneficial talk therapy can be
• our freedom to choose what we do.<br />
• the importance of the therapist in the healing process.
• the importance of therapy.

If Andy is a self-actualized person as described by Maslow, he is least likely to be highly:

•  compassionate towards people of a lower social status.
• concerned about others’ opinions of him.<br />
• religious in a personally satisfying way
• self-accepting

Which of the following is central to Roger’s person-centered approach?

• defense mechanisms
• unconditional positive regard
• self-actualization
• free association