Personality Review

"An emotion characterized by feelings of tension, worried thoughts, and physical changes like increased blood pressure. It can be a normal response to stress" is the definition for...

• Stress

• Anger

• Concern

• Anxiety

"Methods used to avoid recognizing ideas or emotions that may cause personal anxiety" is the definition for...

• Fighting

• Defense mechanisms

• Thinking

• Creative solutions

Psychologists have found it difficult to define personality because

• psychologists are not smart enough to determine the boundaries of human personality

• personality has a common sense definition that psychologists find hard to falsify

• the idea of studying human personality is a rather new concept in psychology

• any definition of personality needs to be sufficiently comprehensive to include a multitude of concepts

____ are enduring and consistent patterns of thoughts, feelings, attitudes, and behaviors.

• Traits

• Quirks

• Habits

• Elements

Freud believed that personality develops through ______.

• conscious, preconscious, and unconscious

• continuous development

• discontinuous development

• psychosexual stages

_____ refers to seeing our own unpleasant/unacceptable impulses in others.

• Denial

• Rationalization

• Projection

• Displacement

The _____ operates like a judge or supervisor of personality and insists that we behave according to the highest ideals taught by society, religion, and most importantly, our parents.

• Ego

• Id

• Superego

According to Freud most of our Psyche/Human Mind is...

• aware to us.

• contained in the Medulla Oblongata.

• the tip of the iceberg.

• outside of our conscious experience.

Which of the following statements BEST describes the FREUDIAN TRIPARTITE

• Superego must be powerful more than ID

• Ego should be always conforming to standards

• Ego, ID and Superego should maintain balance.

• Ego should be always in line with goodness.

It is the moral principle of the Freudian personality structure.

• ID

• EGO IDEAL

• CONSCIOUS

• SUPEREGO