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Total questions: 41
Worksheet time: 21mins
Personality is defined as:
A person’s IQ
Patterns of enduring thoughts, feelings, and behaviors
Temporary reactions
Learned habits
The psychodynamic approach assumes personality is:
Fully conscious
Mainly shaped in adulthood
Primarily unconscious
Independent of childhood
According to Freud, the Id operates on the:
Reality principle
Morality principle
Pleasure principle
Social principle
The Ego operates on the:
Pleasure principle
Reality principle
Morality principle
Defense principle
The Superego represents:
Basic biological drives
Moral standards
Logical decisions
External rewards
Why do we use defense mechanisms?
To increase stress
To protect ourselves from anxiety
To improve memory
To reduce intelligence
Which defense mechanism involves pushing unacceptable thoughts into the unconscious?
Projection
Rationalization
Repression
Denial
Which defense mechanism involves making excuses for behavior?
Rationalization
Identification
Regression
Sublimation
Displacement involves:
Replacing a threatening target with a safer one
Justifying behavior
Acting opposite of true feelings
Forgetting unacceptable urges
Sublimation is when someone:
Converts unacceptable impulses into acceptable actions
Returns to childish behavior
Projects feelings on others
Refuses to believe reality
Projection is:
Blaming others for your own impulses
Becoming like someone else
Returning to earlier development
Acting opposite of feelings
The oral stage is focused on:
Bowel control
Feeding/mouth
Social skills
Genitals
The anal stage centers on:
Toilet training
Food
Understanding rules
Social comparison
The phallic stage involves:
Puberty
Oedipus complex
Logic and morality
Attachment
Latency stage is marked by:
Sexual awakening
Repressed sexual feelings
Adult responsibilities
Personality completion
The Oedipus complex refers to:
A boy’s desire for his mother and rivalry with father
Girls envying male power
Moral development
Late adulthood conflicts
Penis envy is a concept associated with:
Erikson
Maslow
Freud
Jung
The humanistic approach assumes people:
Lack free will
Are irrational
Are driven by unconscious urges
Strive toward growth and potential
According to Maslow, lower needs must be met before:
Happiness
Higher-level needs
Childhood memories
Classical conditioning
Unconditional positive regard means:
Loving someone only when they behave correctly
Valuing someone without judgment
Discipline and structure
Behavior reinforcement
Conditions of worth refer to:
Standards others place on our value
Growing self-awareness
Physical needs
Defense mechanisms
The trait approach assumes personality consists of:
Temporary states
Enduring dispositions
Dreams
Defense mechanisms
Which is not one of the Big Five?
Openness
Aggression
Neuroticism
Agreeableness
Someone high in conscientiousness tends to be:
Lazy
Organized and responsible
Nervous and insecure
Quiet and withdrawn
Bandura’s concept of reciprocal determinism states that behavior is influenced by:
Genetics only
Environment only
Personality only
Behavior, environment, and person factors interacting
Self-efficacy refers to:
Belief about one’s ability to succeed
Memory strength
Defense mechanism usage
Social comparison
Genetics are thought to account for about what percentage of personality?
5%
25%
50%
95%
Social psychology is the study of how people:
Learn languages
Think about, influence, and relate to others
Grow cognitively
Adapt biologically
The halo effect is when:
People forget information
One positive trait leads us to assume other positive traits
We dislike attractive people
We blame external factors
A self-fulfilling prophecy occurs when:
A belief leads to actions that make the belief come true
Attractive people are smarter
People act opposite their beliefs
We forget expectations
The fundamental attribution error involves:
Overestimating situational causes
Overestimating personal causes for others’ behavior
Accurate judgments
Ignoring behaviors completely
False consensus effect means:
We think others agree with us more than they do
We deny our mistakes
We act against beliefs
We compare ourselves to others
Self-serving bias means we attribute success to ____ and failures to ____.
Luck; skill
Ourselves; external factors
External factors; ourselves
Chance; fate
Stereotype threat refers to:
Fear of being judged by a stereotype
Correct knowledge of groups
Eliminating prejudice
Ignoring stereotypes
Cognitive dissonance is the discomfort caused by:
Forgetting important info
Two conflicting thoughts
Physical exhaustion
Personality change
Conformity refers to:
Obeying authority
Changing behavior to match a group
Actively resisting pressure
Helping others
Asch’s experiment demonstrated:
Obedience to authority
Conformity due to group pressure
Fear conditioning
Memory loss
The bystander effect occurs because of:
Low self-esteem
Diffusion of responsibility
High empathy
Aggression
Milgram’s obedience study showed people will:
Never harm others
Obey authority even against conscience
Only follow moral rules
Resist authority automatically
Which is NOT one of the three major factors in attraction?
Proximity
Familiarity
Height
Physical attractiveness
The matching hypothesis states that people tend to pair with others who:
Have opposite personalities
Are similar in physical attractiveness
Have the most resources
Are older or younger
