Ch 10

Question 1

Theory suggests that the development of personality is essentially the accumulation skills, and abilities, and discriminations, without anything really new appearing in a persons make up

Answer 1

Continuity theory

Question 2

The concept of personality that admits little or nothing new from outside the organism to influence or change it in any significant way

Answer 2

Closed system

Question 3

Theory suggests that in the course of development an organism experience with genuine transformations or changes and consequently reaches successfully higher levels of organization

Answer 3

Discontinuity theory

Question 4

Continues to mention is that an individual can be seen to possess to a certain degree. In Allport’s theory, determining tendency to respond that represents the ultimate reality of a psychological organization. In Cattells theory, in imaginary construct of interference from overt behavior helps to explain it

Answer 4

Trait

Question 5

A hypothetical construct that permits us to compare individuals within a given culture

Answer 5

Common trait

Question 6

A general determining characteristic, is unique to the individual who has it

Answer 6

Personal disposition

Question 7

Highly characteristic tendencies of an individual

Answer 7

Central disposition

Question 8

Focus tendencies that are often situational and character and less crucial to the personality structure

Answer 8

Secondary disposition

Question 9

The central experiences of self-awareness that people have as they grow and move forward

Answer 9

Proprium

Question 10

Functions of the proprium that develop gradually as an individual grows from infancy to adulthood and constitute an evolving sense of self as known and felt

Answer 10

Propriate functions

Question 11

The idea that adult motivation is not necessarily tied to the past

Answer 11

Functional autonomy

Question 12

Knowing one’s body and its limits

Answer 12

Bodily self

Question 13

Awareness of inner sameness and continuity

Answer 13

Self identity

Question 14

Pride in the ability to do things

Answer 14

Self-esteem

Question 15

Since of possession and valuing of others

Answer 15

Self extension

Question 16

Since of measuring up to expectations of others

Answer 16

Self image

Question 17

Since of self as active problem-solving agent

Answer 17

Self as rational coper

Question 18

Development of long-term purpose and goals

Answer 18

propriate striving

Question 19

Acts or behaviors that are repeated even though they may have lost their original function; they are not controlled by the proprium and have no genuine connection with it

Answer 19

Preservative functional autonomy

Question 20

Acquired interests, values, attitudes, intentions, and lifestyles that are directed from the proprium

Answer 20

propriate functional autonomy

Question 21

Studying large groups of individuals to determine the frequency with which certain events occur in from this to and for common traits, general variables, or universal principles

Answer 21

Nomothetic

Question 22

Centers on the individual, employing techniques and variables that are appropriate to understanding the uniqueness of each person and then covering personal dispositions

Answer 22

Idiographic

Question 23

Study of individual persons

Answer 23

Personology

Question 24

A force in the brain that organizes perception, understanding, and behavior in such a way as to change an unsatisfying situation and increase satisfaction

Answer 24

Need

Question 25

A projective and we test consisting of ambiguous pictures to which the subject is asked to respond

Answer 25

Thematic apperception test (TAT)