AP Psych - Unit 8: Personality

Which psychodynamic theorist talked about birth order and its part played on personality?

• Eric Erickson

• Carl Jung

• Alfred Adler

• Sigmund Freud

Which of Freud's concept of personality does this best describe? Works on the pleasure principle, avoids pain and receives instant gratification.

• Id

• Ego

• Superego

Our ego protects us from threatening thoughts in our unconscious is by using

(a)  

What is a person's style and way of dealing with the world?

• personality

• temperament

• self-efficacy

• personal defense mechanism

What does 'self-actualization' mean?

• to find love

• to have security

• to reach one's full potential

• to meet the basic need (optional)

Tests like the Rorschach Inkblot test and the TAT are examples of what

• Free association

• Personality inventories

• Projective tests

• Dream therapy

Each of the three factors Bandura believes influence personality affect the other two in a give-and-take relationship. This relationship is called _____.

• Reciprocal Determinism

• Temperament

• Self-efficacy

• Locus of control

The patterns of feelings, motives, and behavior that set people apart from one another.

• Trait

• Ego

• Personality

• Id

Making logical excuses for illogical behavior

• intellectualization

• reaction formation

• rationalization

• sublimation

Id is the pleasure principle

• True

• False