[E3] Chapter 10 Flashcards
_________________ psychology is the study of the relatively stable, distinct patterns of behavior, thoughts and feelings that distinguish one person from another.
a. Developmental
b. Clinical
c. Sociology
d. Personality
d. Personality
The analogy that Sigmund Freud used to explain the human mind is the?
a. computer
b. iceberg
c. pyramid
d. cloud
b. iceberg
According to Freud your preconscious mind is composed of
a. Current moment to moment thinking and problem solving.
b. Thoughts easily brought to awareness with a little selective attention.
c. Primitive instincts and anxiety evoking ideas not consciously expressed.
d. Thematic schemas, images representing common human experiences.
b. Thoughts easily brought to awareness with a little selective attention.
Which of the following is the function of the personality structure called the Ego?
a. your conscience, your feelings of shame and pride.
b. your unconscious inherited aggressive and sexual instincts .
c. your conscious reason and ability to exert self-control.
d. storage of themes and imagery common for all humans.
c. your conscious reason and ability to exert self-control.
Freud would say that if you suck your thumb when you are anxious that is indicative of fixation in the ___________ of development.
a. Oral
b. Anal
c. Phallic
d. Genital
a. Oral
According to Freud an adult with excessive self-control, who cannot stand anything less than perfection, who absolutely has to have neatness and orderliness
a. was positively reinforced for washing and keeping his room tidy.
b. has chosen to be this way because it increases his self-esteem.
c. is unconsciously fixated on the conflict over toilet training.
d. was raised in a culture that valued cleanliness and effort.
c. is unconsciously fixated on the conflict over toilet training.
According to Carl Jung, the Collective Unconscious
a. Contains the Id and the unconscious parent-child conflicts
b. Holds unconscious archetypes that cause everyone to react in similar ways
c. Creates a need for superiority stemming from being smaller and weaker than our parents
d. None of the above
b. Holds unconscious archetypes that cause everyone to react in similar ways
Alfred Adler felt Freud placed too much emphasis on sexual impulses and Adler proposed that what arises from infancy is a basic __________________ and this motivates our adult behavior.
a. Trust-Mistrust dynamic
b. Oedipus Complex
c. Inferiority Complex
d. Identity-Confusion dynamic
c. Inferiority Complex
An important criticism of the theories of Freud and many psychoanalysts is that the data comes from
a. Experiments on monkeys
b. Natural observation of children
c. Case studies of patients
d. Anonymous surveys
c. Case studies of patients
Hans Eysenck described adult personality using
a. Number of Person factors and Situation variables.
b. A model asserting there are five basic personality dimensions.
c. Where the person fell on the social introversion- extraversion scale.
d. Introversion/extraversion plus emotion stability-instability dimensions.
d. Introversion/extraversion plus emotion stability-instability dimensions.
The basic assumption of Trait theory is that traits are
a. Difficult to measure accurately
b. Learned from experience
c. Flexible and inconsistent over time
d. Inherited within the nervous system
d. Inherited within the nervous system
Mai took the big five personality test and scored as neurotic so we would expect her to be?
a. organized and think things through.
b. more emotional, negative, unstable.
c. generally outgoing but not overly emotional.
d. react appropriately in most situations.
b. more emotional, negative, unstable.
If Paul scores as a conscientious person then we expect he will?
a. act first and ask questions later.
b. be reliable and think things through.
c. be disorganized and uncertain.
d. be kind, warm and generous.
b. be reliable and think things through.
Skinner’s behaviorist approach stresses that traits arise from ______________ factors while Bandura’s social learning approach includes the addition of _______________ factors.
a. Situational / Unconscious
b. Cognitive / Personal
c. Situational / Personal
d. Personal / Instinctual
c. Situational / Personal
________ theory suggests children create gender schemas to organize what they know about being a boy or a girl and the schema becomes integrated with self-esteem and a part of personality.
a. Cognitive
b. Behaviorist
c. Biological
d. Evolutionary
a. Cognitive
