Chap 11!MC

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1. Personality is thought to be

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Answer: Long term, stable, and not easily changed

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2. The long-standing traits and patterns that propel individuals to consistently think, feel, and behave in specific ways are known as

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Personality

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3. Who is credited with the first comprehensive theory of personality

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Freud

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4. An early science that tried to correlate personality with measurements of parts of a person’s skull is known as

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Phrenology

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5. The id operates on the

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Pleasure principle

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6. The ego defense mechanism in which a person who is confronted with anxiety returns to a more immature behavioral stage is called

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. Regression

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7. The Oedipus complex occurs in the psychosexual development stage of

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Phallic

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8. The universal bank of ideas, images, and concepts that have been passed down through generations from our ancestors refers to

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Collective unconscious

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9. Self-regulation is also known as

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Will power

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10. Your level of confidence in your own abilities is known as

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Self-efficacy

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11. Giang believes that they got a bad grade on their psychology paper because their professor doesn’t like them. Giang most likely has an

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External locus of control

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12. Self-concept refers to

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All of our thoughts and feelings about ourselves

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13. The idea that people’s ideas about themselves should match their actions is called

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Congruence

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14. The way a person reacts to the world, starting when they are very young, including the person’s activity level, is known as

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Temperament

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15. Sandeep is 18 months old. Sandeep cries frequently, is hard to soothe, and wakes frequently during the night. According to Thomas and Chess, Sandeep would be considered

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A difficult baby

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16. According to the findings of the Minnesota Study of Twins Reared Apart, identical twins, whether raised together or apart, have

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Very similar personalities.

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17. Temperament refers to

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Inborn, genetically based personality differences

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18. According to the Eysencks’ theory, people who score high on neuroticism tend to be

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Anxious

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19. The United States is considered a

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Individualist culture

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20. The concept that people choose to move to places that are compatible with their personalities and needs is known as

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Selective migration

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21. Which of the following is NOT a projective test

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MMPI

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22. A personality assessment in which a person responds to ambiguous stimuli, revealing unconscious feelings, impulses, and desires, is called a

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Projective test

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23. Which personality assessment employs a series of true/false questions

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MMPI