AP TEST unit 9 personality

Question 1

unconscious mind

Answer 1

reservoir of mostly unacceptable thoughts, wishes, feelings and memories.

Question 2

model of mind

Answer 2

The mind is like an iceberg. Mostly hidden and below the surface lies the unconscious mind. The preconscious, stores temporary memoires

Question 3

personality structure

Answer 3

Personality develops as a result of our efforts to resolve conflicts between our biological impulses (id) and social restraints (superego)

Question 4

ID

Answer 4

pleasure principle; selfish and demands gratification

Question 5

ego

Answer 5

reality principle; reduced conflict by implementing defense mechanisms

Question 6

superego

Answer 6

morality principle

Question 7

freud;s psychosexual stages

Answer 7

oral, anal, phallic, latency, genetial

Question 8

oedipus complex

Answer 8

boys-mom; A boy’s sexual desires toward his mother and feelings of jealousy and hatred for rival father.

Question 9

electra complex

Answer 9

same as oedipus for girls-dads

Question 10

repression

Answer 10

banishes anxiety-arousing thoughts, feelings, memories from consciousness; root of all defense mechanisms

Question 11

denial

Answer 11

blocking external events from awarness

Question 12

projection

Answer 12

individuals attributing own unacceptable thoughts and feelings to another person

Question 13

displacement

Answer 13

satisfying an impulse (aggression) with a substitute object

Question 14

regression

Answer 14

moving back in psychological time when faced with stress

Question 15

sublimation

Answer 15

satisfying an impulse with a substitute objet in a SOCIALY ACCEPTANBLE WAY (sport)

Question 16

rationalization

Answer 16

self justifying explanations in place of the real, more threatening, unconscious reasons for one’s actions (“the healthiest part of the donut is the hole. Unfortunately you have to eat through the rest of the donut to get there”

Question 17

reaction formation

Answer 17

causes the ego to unconsciously switch unacceptable impulses into their opposites (punching someone when u want to kiss them)

Question 18

thematic apperception test

Answer 18

people express their inner feelings and interests through the stories they make up about ambiguous scenes

Question 19

Rorschach inkblot test

Answer 19

The most widely used projective test with a set of 10 inkblots was designed by Hermann Rorschach. It seeks to identify people’s inner feelings by analyzing their interpretations of the blots

Question 20

humanistic perspective

Answer 20

belief that people are basically good, emphasis on subjective experience

Question 21

unconditional positive regard

Answer 21

total acceptance toward another person

Question 22

trait perspective

Answer 22

An individual’s unique constellation of durable dispositions and consistent ways of behaving (traits) constitutes his personality. This is different than “states”

Question 23

cardinal trait

Answer 23

single most dominant and consistent trait

Question 24

central traits

Answer 24

a small number of significant tendencies

Question 25

secondary traits

Answer 25

present but not nearly as defining

Question 26

factor analysis

Answer 26

large groups of traits could be reduced down to 16 core personality traits based on statistical correlations

Question 27

big dive factors

Answer 27

opens, conscientisnouss, extraversions, agreeableness, neuroticism

Question 28

conscientiousness

Answer 28

hardworking, depdenacle, organized vs impulsive, easygoing,k careless

Question 29

neuroticism

Answer 29

anxious, sensitive, moody, vs secure, calm, even tempered