Fill-in-the-blanks - Personality

Question 1

The unique and relatively stable ways in which people think, feel, and behave is known as ____________.

Answer 1

personality

Question 2

The value judgements of a person’s moral and ethical behaviour are known as ____________.

Answer 2

character

Question 3

The enduring characteristics with which each person is born are known as their ____________.

Answer 3

temperament

Question 4

The level of the mind in which information is available but not currently conscious is called the ____________.

Answer 4

preconscious

Question 5

The ____________ mind is the level of the mind that is aware of immediate surroundings and perceptions.

Answer 5

conscious

Question 6

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.

Answer 6

unconscious

Question 7

The ____________ is the part of the personality present at birth and completely unconscious.

Answer 7

id

Question 8

The ____________ is the part of the personality that develops out of a need to deal with reality, mostly conscious, rational and logical.

Answer 8

ego

Question 9

The ____________ is the part of the personality that acts as a moral centre.

Answer 9

supergo

Question 10

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.

Answer 10

fixation

Question 11

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 ____________ ____________.

Answer 11

Oral stage

Question 12

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 ____________ ____________.

Answer 12

anal stage

Question 13

The third Freudian stage, occuring from about 3 to 6 years of age, in which the child discovers sexual feelins is know as the ____________ ____________.

Answer 13

phallic stage

Question 14

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 ____________ ____________.

Answer 14

latency stage

Question 15

The final stage of personality development according to Freud is known as the ____________ ____________, and sexual feelings reawaken with appropriate targets.

Answer 15

Genital stage

Question 16

____________ were followers of Freudian who developed their own competing theories of psychoanalysis.

Answer 16

Neo-Freudians

Question 17

____________ developed a theory of collective unconscious.

Answer 17

Jung

Question 18

Jung’s name for the unconscious mind as described by Freud is called the ____________ ____________.

Answer 18

personal unconscious

Question 19

The ____________ ____________ is Jung’s name for the memroesi shared by all members of the human species.

Answer 19

collective unconscious

Question 20

Jung’s collective, universal memories were called ____________.

Answer 20

archetypes

Question 21

____________ developed a theory based on social rather than sexual relationships, covering the entire lifespan.

Answer 21

Erikson

Question 22

____________ proposed feelings of inferiority as the driving force behind personality and developed birth-order theory.

Answer 22

Adler

Question 23

____________ developed a theory based on basic anxiety and rejected the ceontop of penis envy.

Answer 23

Horney

Question 24

According to behaviourists, ____________ are sets of well-learned responses that have become automatic.

Answer 24

Habits

Question 25

____________ is the individual’s perception of how effective a behaviour will be in any particular circumstance.

Answer 25

Self-efficacy

Question 26

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.

Answer 26

Humanistic perspective

Question 27

The striving to fullfill one’s innate capacities and capabilities is called ____________.

Answer 27

Self-actualization

Question 28

____________ ____________ ____________ is positive regard that is given without conditions or strings attached.

Answer 28

Unconditional positive regard

Question 29

A ____________ ____________ is a person who is in touch with and trusting of the deepest, innermost urgers and feelings.

Answer 29

Fully functional person

Question 30

____________ ____________ are theories that endeavor to describe the characteristics that make up human personality in an effort to predict future behaviour.

Answer 30

Trait theories

Question 31

Aspects of personality that can easily be seen by other people in the outward actions of a person are called ____________ ____________.

Answer 31

surface traits

Question 32

The model of personality traits that describes five basic trait dimensions is called the ____________ ____________.

Answer 32

five-factor model

Question 33

____________ ____________ is a field of study of the relationship between heredity and personality.

Answer 33

Behaviour genetics

Question 34

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.

Answer 34

interview

Question 35

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.

Answer 35

halo effect

Question 36

____________ ____________ are personality assessments that present ambiguous visual stimuli to the client and ask the cleint to respond with whatever comes to mind.

Answer 36

projective tests

Question 37

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.

Answer 37

Personality inventory