Unit 6 Quiz: Personality

What is personality?

• part of a person that stands for reason and good sense
• pattern of feelings, motives, and behavior that set people apart from one another
• consciousness of self
• ideas and images of the accumulated experiences of all human beings

Used psychoanalysis, dream analysis, and hypnosis to help patients explore their unconscious

• Sigmund Freud
• Carl Jung
• projection
• regression
• id

The SOCIAL-LEARNING THEORY of personality development emphasizes conscious thought over unconscious thought. True or False?

According to Abraham Maslow, what separates humans from the lower animals?

• a larger brain capacity
• their desire to learn, grow, and understand the world around them
• they recognize their desire to achieve their full potential
• their ability to get in touch with their unconscious self

According to humanistic psychology, what is the very core of what we as people are?

• self
• self-efficacy
• creative self
• self-awareness

What does humanistic theory say about freedom of choice?

• People are free to choose but are responsible for their choices.
• No one is really free because we are shaped into wanting what is good for society.
• Personality traits are inborn and unchanging, so we have no choice in what we are.
• Humans have no choice due to unconscious inner struggles

Sociocultural psychology focuses on the roles of what factors in forming personality?

• ethnicity and gender
• individuation versus collectivism
• internal versus external
• childhood traumas

Developed eight stages of psychosocial development based on the theory that personality development is a lifelong process

• Erik Erikson
• Carl Jung
• projection
• regression
• id

This defense mechanism pushes anxiety-causing ideas into unconscious mind

• repression
• Carl Jung
• projection
• regression
• id

This defense mechanism uses self-deception to justify unacceptable behavior

• rationalization
• Carl Jung
• projection
• regression
• id