Psychology: Vocabulary Unit 1 (Personality)

Which concept refers to the belief in one's ability to succeed in specific situations, individual's expectancy of how effective efforts to accomplish a goal?

• Self-efficacy

• Full functioning person

• Type A personality

• Operant conditioning

What is the term for the belief that one controls their own destiny,

control of events & consequences in life?

• External locus of control

• Internal locus of control

• Self-actualizing

• Social Cognitive Theory

Which term describes the acceptance and support of a person regardless of what they say or do?

• Unconditional positive regard

• Reciprocal determinism

• Type B personality

• Classical conditioning

What is the term for the belief that external forces, rather than personal actions,

determine one's fate, people assume that they have no control over events?

• Internal locus of control

• External locus of control

• Self-actualizing

• Trait

Reaction Formation and Denial are examples of which idea in Psychology?

• Cognitive Perspective

• Defense Mechanisms

• Superego

• Full functioning person

Which term refers to a characteristic pattern of behavior or a disposition to feel and act, a consistent way of thinking, feeling, or behaving?

• Trait

• Type A personality

• Social Cognitive Theory

• Self-efficacy

What is the term for individuals who generally expect negative outcomes?

• Optimists

• Pessimists

• Type A personality

• Full functioning person

What is the scientific study of behavior and mental processes?

• functionalism

• sociology

• psychology

• personality

What is the unique and relatively stable way people think, feel, and behave?

• humanistic

• personality

• psychology

• behaviorist

Perspective that focuses on the unconscious and childhood influences.

• behaviorist

• humanistic

• cognitive

• psychoanalytic