Psychology By Hockenbury Chapter 11: Personality Quiz!

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1.

The psychoanalytic persepctive of personality theory____________
- A.
  
  Represents an optimistic look at human nature, emphasizing the self and the fulfillment of a person's unique potential.
- B.
  
  Emphasizes learning and conscious cognitive processes, including the importance of beliefs about the self, goal setting, and self-regulation.
- C.
  
  Emphasizes the importance of unconcious processes and the influence of early childhood experience.
- D.
  
  Emphasizes the description and measurement of specific personality differences among individuals.
2.

The humanistic perspective of personality theory __________________
- A.
  
  Emphasizes the importance of unconcious processes and the influence of early childhood experience.
- B.
  
  Emphasizes the description and measurement of specific personality differences among individuals.
- C.
  
  Represents an optimistic look at human nature, emphasizing the self and the fulfillment of a person's unique potential.
- D.
  
  Emphasizes learning and conscious cognitive processes, including the importance of beliefs about the self, goal setting, and self-regulation.
3.

The social cognitive perspective of personality theory_____________________.
- A.
  
  Emphasizes learning and conscious cognitive processes, including the importance of beliefs about the self, goal setting, and self-regulation.
- B.
  
  Emphasizes the importance of unconscious processes and the influence of early childhood experience.
- C.
  
  Emphasizes the description and measurement of specific personality differences among individuals.
- D.
  
  Represents an optimistic look at human nature, emphasizing the self and the fulfillment of a person's unique potential.
4.

The trait perspective of personality theory __________________.
- A.
  
  Emphasizes the description and measurement of specific personality differences among individuals.
- B.
  
  Represents an optimistic look at human nature, emphasizing the self and the fulfillment of a person's unique potential.
- C.
  
  Emphasizes learning and conscious cognitive processes, including the importance of beliefs about the self, goal setting, and self-regulation.
- D.
  
  Emphasizes the importance of unconcious processes and the influence of early childhood experience.
5.

A psychoanalytic technique in which the patient spontaneoulsy reports all thoughts, feelings, and mental images as they come to mind.
- A.
  
  Hypnosis
- B.
  
  Free association
- C.
  
  Introspection
6.

According to Freud, psychological energy develops into the three basic structures of personality. Which is NOT one of those three structures?
- A.
  
  Id
- B.
  
  Libido
- C.
  
  Ego
- D.
  
  Superego
7.

In Freud's theory, the completely unconscious, irrational component of personality that seeks immediate satisfaction of instinctual urges and drives; ruled by the pleasure principle.
- A.
  
  Eros
- B.
  
  Ego
- C.
  
  Id
- D.
  
  Superego
8.

Thinking or behaving in a way that is the extreme opposite of unacceptable urges or impulses.
- A.
  
  Projection
- B.
  
  Denial
- C.
  
  Reaction formation
- D.
  
  Regression
9.

A form of displacement in which sexual urges are rechanneled into productive, nonsexual activities.
- A.
  
  Sublimation
- B.
  
  Denial
- C.
  
  Undoing
- D.
  
  Rationalization
10.

Retreating to a behavior pattern characteristic of an earlier stage of development.
- A.
  
  Denial
- B.
  
  Regression
- C.
  
  Repression
- D.
  
  Undoing
11.

The attribution of one's own unacceptable urges or qualities to others.
- A.
  
  Regression
- B.
  
  Repression
- C.
  
  Projection
- D.
  
  Denial
12.

In Freud's theory, a child's unconscious sexual desire for the opposite-sex parent, usually accompanied by hostile feelings toward the same-sex parent.
- A.
  
  Identification
- B.
  
  Oedipus complex
- C.
  
  Ego defense mechanism
- D.
  
  Penis envy
13.

Penis envy is a term used to describe_________________
- A.
  
  A child's unconcious sexual desire for the opposite-sex parent, usually accompanied by hostile feelings.
- B.
  
  A man's desire to have a penis similar in size to those of African's and their descendents.
- C.
  
  The sense of deprivation and loss a little girl exepriences when she discovers that boys have a penis, and she does not.
14.

According to Freud, sexual urges of boys and girls become repressed during the ____________ stage in late childhood, due to the intense anxiety associated with the Oedipus complex.
- A.
  
  Genital
- B.
  
  Latency
- C.
  
  Oral
- D.
  
  Anal
15.

According to Freud, the first year of life is characterized as the ___________ stage.
- A.
  
  Anal
- B.
  
  Latency
- C.
  
  Oral
- D.
  
  Phallic
16.

The Freudian psychosexual stage in which pleasure is derived through elimination and acquiring control over elimination.
- A.
  
  Oral
- B.
  
  Phallic
- C.
  
  Anal
- D.
  
  Genital
17.

The Freudian psychosexual stage in which pleasure seeking is focused on the genitals. (Hint: Occurs during the first five years of life).
- A.
  
  Phallic stage
- B.
  
  Genital
- C.
  
  Anal
- D.
  
  Oral
18.

The final resoluation of the Oedipus complex occurs in adolescence during the ________ stage, during which incestuous urges start to resurface, and the personb directs sexual urges toward socially acceptable substitutes.
- A.
  
  Latency
- B.
  
  Genital
- C.
  
  Phallic
- D.
  
  Oral
19.

Children in the _____________ stage will outwardly show a strong desire to associate exclusively with same-sex peers.
- A.
  
  Genital
- B.
  
  Anal
- C.
  
  Oral
- D.
  
  Latency
20.

Psychologists who believed that the deepest part of the individual psyche is the collective unconcious, whihc is shared by all people and reflects humanity's collective evolutionary history.
- A.
  
  Karen Horney
- B.
  
  Sigmund Freud
- C.
  
  Carl Junge
- D.
  
  Alfred Adler
21.

Psychologist who stressed the importance of cultural and social factors in personality development.
- A.
  
  Alfred Adler
- B.
  
  Karen Horney
- C.
  
  Carl Jung
- D.
  
  Sigmund Freud
22.

Psychologist who believed that the most fundamental human motive is striving for superiority.
- A.
  
  Carl Rogers
- B.
  
  Carl Jung
- C.
  
  Karen Horney
- D.
  
  Alfred Adler
23.

In Freud's dynamic theory of personality, the _____________ level is the level of awareness that represents all the thoughts, feelings, and sensations that you're aware of at a particular moment .
- A.
  
  Preconscious
- B.
  
  Concious
- C.
  
  Unconcious
- D.
  
  Subconscious
24.

In Freud's dynamic theory of personality, the ______________ level of awareness contains information that you're not currently aware of but can easily bring to concious awareness.
- A.
  
  Conscious
- B.
  
  Unconscious
- C.
  
  Preconscious
- D.
  
  Subconscious.
25.

In Freud's theory, the _______________ level of awareness represents the thoughts, feelings, wishes and drives that are operating below the level of concious awareness.
- A.
  
  Unconscious
- B.
  
  Conscious
- C.
  
  Subconscious
- D.
  
  Preconscious