Personality Review (AP Psych)

​ (a)   personality is the hard-driving, anger prone personality type which is at higher risk for heart attack.

• Type A
• Type B
• Type D
• Type E

​ The ego uses ​ (a)   as protective methods of reducing anxiety by unconsciously distorting reality

• defense mechanisms
• facial feedback
• primary drives
• incentives

Defense mechanism where a person attributes personal shortcomings & faults on to others (man who wants to have an affair accuses his wife of having one)

• Repression

• Projection

• Regression

• Sublimination

If a person has an ​ (a)   locus of control, they strongly believe they can influence the outcome and destiny of one's own life

• internal
• external
• extrinisic
• intrinsic

According to ​ (a)   an attitude of total acceptance toward another person without concern for behavior is referred to as ​ (b)  

• Carl Rogers
• unconditional positive regard
• Abraham Maslow
• self-actualization
• Karen Horneye
• personal unconsicous

Mr. Dutoit was asked by his psychotherapist to look at some ambiguous pictures and make up a story about each. Mr. Dutoit was most likely taking the:

• Thematic Appreception Test (TAT)

• Myers-Briggs Type Indicator

• MMPI2

• Rorschach test

A personality measure that asks you to respond freely to an ambiguous stimulus such as a picture or an inkblot is called a

• self report personality inventory
• projective test
• behavior rating
• deceptive test

Match the following parts of personality accord to Freud

• part of unconscious that is the voice of morality and conscience

• Ego

• part of unconscious that contains all of the unrestricted urges and impulses

• Superego

• the mediator between the other two extreme parts of the unconscious

• Id

Match the following defense mechanisms

• reverting back to early, comforting behavior to avoid anxiety

• Regression

• blocking painful thoughts from conscious awareness

• Projection

• Believing the feelings you have for another are actually held by that person & directed towards you

• Repression

• Redirecting your feelings about one person/object onto a different person/object

• Displacement

Match the following defense mechanisms

• expressing the opposite of how you truly feel

• Sublimation

• refusal to accept the reality of a situation

• Reaction-Formation

• channeling socially unacceptable urges into positive action

• Rationalization

• looking for the positives in an undesired situation or outcome

• Denial