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WorksheetsAP Psychology Personality Theories
Total questions: 20
Worksheet time: 10mins
Name the Psychological Approach: Emphasizes the importance of motives hidden in the unconscious mind that shapes our personalities
Psychoanalytic or Psychodynamic
Behavioral
Cognitive
Humanistic
Name the Psychological Approach: Rewards and punishments shape our actions, which shapes our personalities
Psychoanalytic or Psychodynamic
Behavioral
Humanistic
Trait Theory
Name the Psychological Approach: Our personal potential for growth: creativity, and spontaneity drives our personality
Behavioral
Social Learning Theory
Cognitive
Humanistic
Name the Approach: Basic personality characteristics, such as friendliness, and aggression hold the essential components of our personality
Psychoanalytic or Psychodynamic
Social Learning Theory
Cognitive
Trait Theory
The part of the unconscious mind that contains our needs, drives, instincts, and repressed urges.
Id
Ego
Super Ego
Preconscious
The part of the personality that is the source of our morals and ethics. It counteracts the socially unacceptable impulses of our unconscious.
Id
Ego
Super Ego
Preconscious
This part of our personality acts as our "true self," it is in touch with reality and strives to meet urges in a socially acceptable way.
Id
Ego
Super Ego
Preconscious
Which Defense Mechanism: You fail a test and say “Those test questions were bad, they didn’t make any sense” even though you didn’t spend any time studying
Rationalization
Repression
Projection
Reaction Formation
Defense Mechanism: Pushing any disturbing thoughts or memories out of awareness.
Rationalization
Repression
Denial
Projection
Defense Mechanism: Refusing to accept the reality of something that makes you anxious.
Rationalization
Repression
Denial
Projection
Defense Mechanism: A cheating husband continually accuses his wife of cheating.
Rationalization
Denial
Repression
Projection
Defense Mechanism: A boy likes a girl in his class and he teases her to hide his true feelings
Denial
Projection
Reaction Formation
Sublimation
Defense Mechanism: Your boss yells at you and since you can't yell at your boss without losing your job, you yell at your administrative assistant.
Denial
Projection
Displacement
Regression
Defense Mechanism: Regina George plays lacrosse so that she has an outlet for her aggression that is socially acceptable.
Projection
Displacement
Reaction Formation
Sublimation
Carl Jung believed that our ___________ ___________ inherits instincts, urges, and memories common to all people.
Agreeableness
collective unconscious
Ideal Self
Self-Actualization
Which of the following terms refers to the tendency in childhood were we learn to avoid feelings of inadequacy instead of trying to overcome them.
Neuroticism
Humanism
Inferiority Complex
Regression
Humanistic psychologist who introduced “self-actualization”
Alfred Adler
Gordon Allport
Carl Jung
Abraham Maslow
Humanistic psychologist who developed the concept of the “self” and “unconditional positive regard”
Alfred Adler
Carl Rogers
Sigmund Freud
Abraham Maslow
Carl Rogers defines this as "one's experience or image of oneself, developed through interaction with others"
The Self
Self-Actualization
Incongruence
Rogerian Therapy
When parental figures teach children that they must act a certain way in order to be loved this create which term related to personality?
Unconditional Positive Regard
Conditions of Worth
Ideal Self
Self-Actualization
