ch.13- Personality

Question 1

regression

Answer 1

defense mechanism where an anxious individual retreats to a more infantile psychosexual stage where some psychic energy remains fixated

Question 2

sublimation

Answer 2

defense mechanism where people can deal with socially unacceptable impulses, feelings, and ideas in social acceptable ways.

Question 3

reaction formation

Answer 3

defense mechanism where ego switches unacceptable impulses into their opposites

Question 4

projection

Answer 4

defense mechanism where people disguise their impulses by attributing them to others

Question 5

displacement

Answer 5

defense mechanism that shifts impulses to a more acceptable or less threatening object or person

Question 6

projective test

Answer 6

personality test such as tat or rorschach that gives ambiguous stimuli designed to trigger projection of one’r inner dynamics

Question 7

Thematic apperception test (TAT)

Answer 7

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

Question 8

rorschach inkblot test

Answer 8

most widely used projective test, a set of inkblots that identify people’s inner feelings by analyzing their interpretations of the blots

Question 9

empirically derived test

Answer 9

a test like the MMPI developed by testing a pool of items and then selecting those that discriminate between groups

Question 10

Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI)

Answer 10

most widely used of all personality tests, originally developed to identify emotional disorders its now used for many screening purposes

Question 11

reciprocal determinism

Answer 11

According to Albert Bandura, a person’s behavior is both influenced by a person’s personal factors and the environment.

Question 12

self-serving bias

Answer 12

readiness to perceive oneself favorably