Fill-in-the-blanks - Personality Flashcards
The unique and relatively stable ways in which people think, feel, and behave is known as ____________.
personality
The value judgements of a person’s moral and ethical behaviour are known as ____________.
character
The enduring characteristics with which each person is born are known as their ____________.
temperament
The level of the mind in which information is available but not currently conscious is called the ____________.
preconscious
The ____________ mind is the level of the mind that is aware of immediate surroundings and perceptions.
conscious
The ____________ is the level of the min din which thoughts, feelings, memories, and other information are kept that are not easily or voluntarily brought into consciousness.
unconscious
The ____________ is the part of the personality present at birth and completely unconscious.
id
The ____________ is the part of the personality that develops out of a need to deal with reality, mostly conscious, rational and logical.
ego
The ____________ is the part of the personality that acts as a moral centre.
supergo
A ____________ is a disorder in which the person does not fully resolve the conflict in a particular psychosexual stage, resulting in personality traits and behaviour associated with that earlier stage.
fixation
According to Freud, this is the first stage, occuring in the first ear of life, in which the mouth is the erogenous zone and weaning is the primary conflict. It is called the ____________ ____________.
Oral stage
According to Freud, the second stage of personality development, occuring from about 1 to 3 years of age, in wihc the anus is the erogenous zone adn toilet training is the source of conflict is called the ____________ ____________.
anal stage
The third Freudian stage, occuring from about 3 to 6 years of age, in which the child discovers sexual feelins is know as the ____________ ____________.
phallic stage
The fourth Freudian stage, occuring during the school years in which the sexual feelings of the child are repressed while the child develops in other ways is known as the ____________ ____________.
latency stage
The final stage of personality development according to Freud is known as the ____________ ____________, and sexual feelings reawaken with appropriate targets.
Genital stage
____________ were followers of Freudian who developed their own competing theories of psychoanalysis.
Neo-Freudians
____________ developed a theory of collective unconscious.
Jung
Jung’s name for the unconscious mind as described by Freud is called the ____________ ____________.
personal unconscious
The ____________ ____________ is Jung’s name for the memroesi shared by all members of the human species.
collective unconscious
Jung’s collective, universal memories were called ____________.
archetypes
____________ developed a theory based on social rather than sexual relationships, covering the entire lifespan.
Erikson
____________ proposed feelings of inferiority as the driving force behind personality and developed birth-order theory.
Adler
____________ developed a theory based on basic anxiety and rejected the ceontop of penis envy.
Horney
According to behaviourists, ____________ are sets of well-learned responses that have become automatic.
Habits
____________ is the individual’s perception of how effective a behaviour will be in any particular circumstance.
Self-efficacy
The ____________ ____________ is the “third force” in psychology that focuses on those aspects of personality that make people uniquely human, such as subjective feelings and freedom of choice.
Humanistic perspective
The striving to fullfill one’s innate capacities and capabilities is called ____________.
Self-actualization
____________ ____________ ____________ is positive regard that is given without conditions or strings attached.
Unconditional positive regard
A ____________ ____________ is a person who is in touch with and trusting of the deepest, innermost urgers and feelings.
Fully functional person
____________ ____________ are theories that endeavor to describe the characteristics that make up human personality in an effort to predict future behaviour.
Trait theories
Aspects of personality that can easily be seen by other people in the outward actions of a person are called ____________ ____________.
surface traits
The model of personality traits that describes five basic trait dimensions is called the ____________ ____________.
five-factor model
____________ ____________ is a field of study of the relationship between heredity and personality.
Behaviour genetics
The ____________ is a method of personality assessment in which the professional asks questions of the client and allows the client to answer, either in a structured or unstructued fashion.
interview
The ____________ ____________ is the tendency of an interviewer to allow positive characteristics of a client to influence the assessments of the client’s behaviour and statements.
halo effect
____________ ____________ are personality assessments that present ambiguous visual stimuli to the client and ask the cleint to respond with whatever comes to mind.
projective tests
A ____________ ____________ is a paper-and-pencil or computerized test that consists of statements that require a speific, standardized response from the person taking the test.
Personality inventory
