Chapter 14

Question 1

Genetic factors

Answer 1

Regardless of how, and by whom we were raised, our personalities have no correlation to biological parents, genetic make up

Question 2

Shared environmental factors

Answer 2

Some experiences make individuals within the same family more like

Question 3

Non-shared environmental factors

Answer 3

Some experiences make individuals within the same family less like

Question 4

Personality

Answer 4

People, typical ways of thinking, feeling, and behaving

Question 5

Psychoanalytic POV

Answer 5

Theory of personality, organization, and the dynamics of personality development relating to the practice of psychoanalysis, I clinical method for treating psychopathology

Question 6

Behavioural POV

Answer 6

View personality as shaped by the reinforcements and consequences outside of the organism

Question 7

Humanistic POV

Answer 7

Focusses on each individuals potential and stresses, the importance of growth and self actualization

Question 8

Id

Answer 8

Reservoir of our most primitive impulse, including sex and aggression

Question 9

Ego

Answer 9

Psyches executive, and principles decision maker

Question 10

Superego

Answer 10

Our sense of morality

Question 11

Freudian defence mechanism

Answer 11

Unconscious manoeuvres intended to minimize anxiety

Question 12

Self actualization

Answer 12

The realization or fulfilment of one’s talents, and potential’s, especially considered as the drive we need to present in everyone

Question 13

Conditions of worth

Answer 13

Rules that govern values, beliefs, and behaviours

Question 14

Conscientiousness

Answer 14

The quality of wishing to do ones work or duty well and thoroughly

Question 15

Agreeableness

Answer 15

A persons ability to put other people’s needs above their own

Question 16

Neuroticism

Answer 16

A tendency toward anxiety, depression, self doubt, and other negative feelings

Question 17

Open ness

Answer 17

Open minded, imaginative, creative, and insightful a person is

Question 18

Extroversion

Answer 18

Active people who are sociable, talkative, and assertive

Question 19

Structured personality tests

Answer 19

The relatively stable and distinct patterns of behaviour that characterize an individual and his or her reactions to the environment

Question 20

Projective, personality tests

Answer 20

Personality test in which subjects are shown ambiguous images were given situation and asked to interpret them