Chapter 14: Personality

Which approach to personality focuses on the importance of motives hidden in the unconscious mind that shapes our personalities?

• Psychoanalytic

• Behavioral

• Cognitive

• Humanistic

Which approach to personality focuses on how rewards and punishments shape our actions, which shapes our personalities?

• Psychoanalytic

• Behavioral

• Humanistic

• Trait

Which approach to personality says that our personal potential for growth, creativity, and spontaneity drives our personality?

• Behavioral

• Social Learning Theory

• Cognitive

• Humanistic

Which approach to personality says that basic personality characteristics such as extraversion and neuroticism hold the essential components of our personality?

• Psychoanalytic

• Social Learning Theory

• Cognitive

• Trait Theory

In Freud's theory, the unconscious part of our mind that holds our needs, drives, instincts, and repressed urges.

• Id

• Ego

• Superego

In Freud's theory, the part of our minds that acts on the morality principle and is our conscience.

• Id

• Ego

• Superego

According to Freud, this part of our mind that helps meet our urges in a socially acceptable way.

• Id

• Ego

• Superego

Making up acceptable excuses for behavior that cause us to feel anxious

• Repression

• Rationalization

• Denial

• Reaction Formation

Going back to an earlier and less mature pattern of behavior

• Repression

• Reaction Formation

• Regression

• Sublimation

A young man forgets that he was bullied as a kid because it was so unpleasant.

• Repression

• Rationalization

• Reaction Formation

• Sublimation