Chapter 11: Personality Flashcards
Personality is thought to be ________.
a. short term and easily changed
b. a pattern of short-term characteristics
c. unstable and short term
d. long term, stable and not easily changed
d. long term, stable and not easily changed
The long-standing traits and patterns that
propel individuals to consistently think, feel, and behave in specific ways are known as ________.
a. psychodynamic
b. temperament
c. humors
d. personality
d. personality
________ is credited with the first comprehensive theory of personality.
a. Hippocrates
b. Gall
c. Wundt
d. Freud
d. Freud
An early science that tried to correlate personality with measurements of parts of a person’s skull is known as ________.
a. phrenology
b. psychology
c. physiology
d. personality psychology
a. phrenology
The id operates on the ________ principle.
a. reality
b. pleasure
c. instant gratification
d. guilt
b. pleasure
The ego defense mechanism in which a person who is confronted with anxiety returns to a more immature behavioral stage is called ________.
a. repression
b. regression
c. reaction formation
d. rationalization
b. regression
The Oedipus complex occurs in the ________
stage of psychosexual development.
a. oral
b. anal
c. phallic
d. latency
c. phallic
The universal bank of ideas, images, and concepts that have been passed down through the
generations from our ancestors refers to ________.
a. archetypes
b. intuition
c. collective unconscious
d. personality types
c. collective unconscious
Self-regulation is also known as ________.
a. self-efficacy
b. will power
c. internal locus of control
d. external locus of control
b. will power
Your level of confidence in your own abilities is known as ________.
a. self-efficacy
b. self-concept
c. self-control
d. self-esteem
a. self-efficacy
Jane believes that she got a bad grade on her psychology paper because her professor doesn’t like her. Jane most likely has an _______ locus of control.
a. internal
b. external
c. intrinsic
d. extrinsic
b. external
Self-concept refers to ________.
a. our level of confidence in our own abilities
b. all of our thoughts and feelings about ourselves
c. the belief that we control our own outcomes
d. the belief that our outcomes are outside of
our control
b. all of our thoughts and feelings about ourselves
The idea that people’s ideas about themselves
should match their actions is called ________.
a. confluence
b. conscious
c. conscientiousness
d. congruence
d. congruence
The way a person reacts to the world, starting when they are very young, including the person’s
activity level is known as ________.
a. traits
b. temperament
c. heritability
d. personality
b. temperament
Brianna is 18 months old. She cries frequently, is hard to soothe, and wakes frequently during the night. According to Thomas and Chess, she would be considered ________.
a. an easy baby
b. a difficult baby
c. a slow to warm up baby
d. a colicky baby
b. a difficult baby
