Chapter 13-Personality Psych

Question 1

Alex Honnold

Answer 1

Super crazy free climber

Question 2

Personality

Answer 2

set of organized and relatively enduring psychological mechanisms within individual determines interactions and adaptations to the environment

Question 3

The Interpersonal Circumplex (circle)

Answer 3

Extrovert-need lots of external stimulus
Introvert- little external stimulus
Neurotic- very changeable emotions: prone to anxiety and depression
Stable- ability to remain calm under stress

Question 4

BIG 5 PERSONALITY TESTS

Answer 4

1) Extroversion
2) Agreeableness
3) Conscientiousness
4) Neuroticism
5) Open to experience
* diff combos help diagnose and classify psychological disorders.

Question 5

Sensation-seeker

Answer 5

generally more men, declines w age
more likely to: have more day dreams, use drugs, gamble, risky sports, spicy or crunchy foods, view situation less risky, send mean emails

Question 6

Sensation Seeking Test

Answer 6

High SS score high on extroversion and openness

Question 7

Minnesota Multiphalic Personality Inventory-2 (MMPI-2)

Answer 7

Popular personality inventory designed to assess psychopathology

Question 8

MMPI-2 personality tests

Answer 8

1-hypochondriasis
2-depression
3-hysteria 
4-psychopathic deficiency  
5-masculinity feminity 
6-Paranoia
7-Psychasthenia 
8-Schizophrenia 
9-Hypomania 
10-Social Introversion

Question 9

Projective Tests

Answer 9

Assessment tool that asks test takers to make sense of an ambiguous stimulus

Question 10

Sensory Deprivation Tanks

“Isolation tank/Float tanks”

Answer 10

isolated in salt water bath darkness
immersed into world of darkness no sound hear only breathing and heart beat
created by John C Lilly’s
L$D

Question 11

Thematic Apperception Test (TAT)

Answer 11

Protective test that uses depictions of scenes often w people in them

Question 12

Rorschach Test

Answer 12

Project ice test that uses ink blots

Question 13

Freudian Model

Answer 13

basic
conflict + conflict
anxiety
defense

Question 14

Structural Model of Mind

Answer 14

Id-unconsciousness (baby don’t know)
Ego-Consciousness (starting to learn stuff about life)
Superego-when your morals form

Question 15

Defense Mechanisms

Answer 15

Repression
Projection
Displacement 
Sublimation
Reaction Formation
Denial

Question 16

Libido

Answer 16

sexual drive/curiosity; part of Id

Question 17

Psychosexual Stages

Answer 17

1 Oral-birth:18 mths-passivity
2 Anal-18mths:3yrs-control
3 Phallic-3-6yrs-Exhibition *flashers
Girls: electra complex, penis envy (want dad att
Boys:Oedipos complex, castration anxiety
*notice difference&similar in bodies, love triangle dad mom kid, birth of superego
4 Latency-6yrs:puberty 
5 Genital- puberty:beyond reciprocity

Question 18

1st born and only child

Answer 18

• more responsible, ambitious, organized academically successful, conscientious
• more anxious about status

Question 19

Middleborn

Answer 19

• less closely identified w family
• compared to siblings, more likely to live further/visit family
• more likely to identify non-kin closest to them

Question 20

Later born

Answer 20

• more agreeable, warmer&trusting
• more adventurous, sociable, fun loving
• more self conscious

Question 21

Humanistic Psychology

Answer 21

In response to freuds somewhat neg view of human nature (emphasizing sex&agression)
famouscarl rivers, abraham maslow

Question 22

Unconditional Positive Regard

Rogers

Answer 22

Acceptance with out any conditions

Question 23

Self Actualization

Maslow

Answer 23

Aiming for highest possible emotional and intellectual potential all