Chapter 12 Psych Flashcards
Our personality influences how we feel and act.
True False
True
Personality is fairly stable across individuals.
True False
False
Personality can be defined as an individual’s consistent behavioural traits.
True False
True
The choices we make are not influenced by our personalities.
True False
False
Match each example with the most appropriate structure of personality, according to the psychodynamic perspective. (id, ego, superego)
You know that smoking is very bad for your health so you don’t think you should allow yourself to have any.
You see a cheesecake in the fridge and decide you will wait until after dinner to have a piece.
You see a cheesecake in the fridge and have to have a piece right now.
You refuse your co-worker’s offer of a cigarette during your break, knowing that you’re only allowing yourself to have 5/day and you want to save your next one for later.
You see a cheesecake in the fridge and remember that this is not a healthy food choice, it is full of saturated fats and is very high in calories, so you don’t believe you should have any.
You’re trying to cut down on smoking but couldn’t resist accepting a cigarette from a co-worker during your break.
3,2,1,2,3,1
Dana is bringing a Tupperware full of frosted sugar cookies on the school bus to sell in her bake sale at lunch hour. Unfortunately, she is unable to resist tasting the cookies, and before she knows it, she has eaten more than half the container. What aspect of her personality would Freud say was in control here?
ego
defense mechanisms
superego
id
id
John finds a wallet with $350 in it. Although the wallet has the owner’s identification inside, John decides to keep the money because he tells himself that it is the owner’s fault for losing the wallet, and this may teach them a lesson. After all, the owner should not have been so careless. John’s behaviour is an example of which defense mechanism?
denial
reaction formation
sublimation
rationalization
rationalization
Match each example with the most appropriate defense mechanism. (repression, sublimation, denial, displacement, identification, projection, rationalization, reaction formation)
You go to the Dairy Queen and consume an extra large sundae but have no memory of doing so.
The passenger of the accident has no memory of the events leading up to the crash.
repression
Match each example with the most appropriate defense mechanism. (repression, sublimation, denial, displacement, identification, projection, rationalization, reaction formation)
Gary wanted to act out the shooter videogames that he loved to play, but knowing he couldn’t go around shooting people, he decided to join the military and sign up for active duty.
You get a job as an ice cream taster for Dairy Queen in order to help them produce the best product.
sublimation
Match each example with the most appropriate defense mechanism. (repression, sublimation, denial, displacement, identification, projection, rationalization, reaction formation)
The wife hears the officer say that her husband died in an accident today, but she refuses to believe that he is really gone.
You consume the Dairy Queen sundae but suggest that they left all the calories out of your serving.
denial
Match each example with the most appropriate defense mechanism. (repression, sublimation, denial, displacement, identification, projection, rationalization, reaction formation)
You avoid going to the Dairy Queen, only to consume half a gallon of frozen yogurt from your freezer at home.
The student is angry with his teacher and comes home and punches his little brother.
displacement
Match each example with the most appropriate defense mechanism. (repression, sublimation, denial, displacement, identification, projection, rationalization, reaction formation)
You eat a Dairy Queen sundae because this is what you saw your hero do yesterday.
The student dresses up as Albert Einstein on the day of the math exam in order to feel more confident about the test.
identification
Match each example with the most appropriate defense mechanism. (repression, sublimation, denial, displacement, identification, projection, rationalization, reaction formation)
The mother accuses her husband of not wanting to spend time with her and yet she is unaware that she is the one who is consistently pushing him away.
You drive by the Dairy Queen and say, “Look at all those weaklings eating sundaes.”
projection
Match each example with the most appropriate defense mechanism. (repression, sublimation, denial, displacement, identification, projection, rationalization, reaction formation)
You eat a hot fudge sundae because it will help all the migrant workers who harvested the cocoa beans used in making the fudge.
The applicant believed it was acceptable to lie on their resume because everyone does it and they deserved the job.
rationalization
Match each example with the most appropriate defense mechanism. (repression, sublimation, denial, displacement, identification, projection, rationalization, reaction formation)
You organize a protest at the local Dairy Queen because they have no low-fat alternatives.
A husband, who is unaware of his desire to have an affair, becomes overly romantic with his wife and proposes a second wedding and honeymoon.
reaction formation
John finds a wallet with $350 in it. Although the wallet has the owner’s identification inside, John decides to keep the money because he tells himself that it is the owner’s fault for losing the wallet, and this may teach them a lesson. After all, the owner should not have been so careless. John’s behaviour is an example of which defense mechanism?
denial
reaction formation
sublimation
rationalization
rationalization
Match each fixation with the most appropriate Freudian psychosexual stage. (oral, anal, phallic, latency)
smoker difficulties forming friendships tendency toward promiscuity compulsively neat self-indulgent very rigid and inflexible messy and dominant nail-biter sexual attitudes may lack maturity dependency
1, 4, 3, 2, 1, 2, 2, 1, 3, 1
Mary wants to learn to bake because her mom knows how to bake and she wants to be just like her mom when she grows up. What psychosexual stage of development would Freud say that Mary is in?
phallic
genital
oral
anal
phallic