Psychology

Tests that present ambiguous stimuli designed to uncover hidden personality dynamics are called ____________ tests.

• empirical

• projective

• aptitude

• really hard

Personality is best defined as an individual's

• characteristic pattern of thinking, feeling, and acting.

• most noticeable characteristics.

• biologically inherited temperament.

• hidden thoughts and emotions.

Mark typically responds to stress in a calm and thoughtful manner. Tom, on the other hand, usually becomes agitated. The reaction of Mark and tom indicate that each has a distinctive

• reaction formation.

• collective unconscious.

• personality.

• Oedipus Complex.

Carl Rogers emphasized the importance of __________ in regards to healthy personality development.

• the collective unconscious

• unconditional positive regard

• reciprocal determinism.

• the primary care giver

Lance is in cross country runner.  He tends to run faster when he is running with someone than when he is running alone.  This is an example of...

• social facilitation

• bystander effect

• foot-in-the-door phenomenon

• mere exposure effect

the scientific study of how a person's thoughts, feelings, and behavior are influenced by the real, imagined, or implied presence of others

• social psychology

• social cognition

• social influence

• social identification

The text defines social psychology as the scientific study of how people ________ one another.

• understand, feel about, and behave toward

• think about, influence, and relate to

• observe, understand, and communicate with

• understand, predict, and control

Humanistic psychologist who developed the concept of the “self” and “unconditional positive regard”

• Alfred Adler

• Carl Rogers

• Sigmund Freud

• Abraham Maslow

Trait theorists have been most criticized for

• underestimating the potential influence of biological factors on personality development.

• underestimating the extent to by which people differ from one another.

• overestimating the consistency of behavior from one situation to another.

• overestimating the importance of childhood experiences on adult personality traits.

If a child is behaving poorly, it is likely because this behavior has been rewarded somehow.

• Social-cultural perspective

• Behavioral perspective

• Biological perspective

• Psychodynamic perspective