Personality Quiz

What is personality defined as in the provided material?

• A person's changing style of interacting with the world

• A person's general style of interacting with the world

• A person's occasional style of interacting with the world

• A person's professional style of interacting with the world

Who developed the Psychoanalytic Approach?

• Carl Jung

• Ivan Pavlov

• Sigmund Freud

• B.F. Skinner

What does the Psychoanalytic Approach emphasize as the main causes of behavior?

• Conscious thoughts

• Social interactions

• Unconscious motivation

• Environmental factors

Which part of the mind is described as instinctual drives present at birth and does not distinguish between reality and fantasy?

• Ego

• Superego

• Id

• Conscious

What develops out of the id in infancy and understands reality and logic?

• Conscious

• Superego

• Id

• Ego

Which part of the mind is the mediator between id and superego?

• Conscious

• Id

• Superego

• Ego

What is the role of the superego according to psychoanalytic divisions of the mind?

• It operates according to the pleasure principle.

• It is responsible for guilt.

• It is present at birth.

• It understands reality and logic.

What does the superego internalize?

• The pleasure principle

• Reality and logic

• Society's moral standards

• Instinctual drives

According to the Psychoanalytic Approach, what does the Ego represent?

• Information in your immediate awareness

• Moralistic, judgmental, perfectionist dimension of personality

• Rational, planful, mediating dimension of personality

• Thoughts, feelings, urges, and other information that is difficult to bring to conscious awareness

What is the role of the Superego in the Psychoanalytic Approach?

• It contains thoughts, feelings, urges, and other information that is difficult to bring to conscious awareness

• It represents the moralistic, judgmental, perfectionist dimension of personality

• It is the rational, planful, mediating dimension of personality

• It holds information which can easily be made conscious