Personality 4

Question 1

psychoanalytic

Answer 1

aka psychodynamic

importance of childhood and unconscious

Question 2

defense mechanisms are
majority of personality developed during
gender roles come from

Answer 2

fully unconscious
childhood
phallic stage

Question 3

latency stage extra

Answer 3

defense mechanisms kick in
sublimation (activities sublimating sexual desires)
reaction formation
denial
repression

Question 4

best things about freud

Answer 4

started discussion on unconscious
defense mechanisms
childhood important

Question 5

inferiority complex

Answer 5

adler

kids all treated as inferior, everyone has it

Question 6

will to power

Answer 6

adler

over time establish, realize have power over own life, normalize inferior

Question 7

horney changes

Answer 7

inferiority complex becomes basic anxiety (inferior to world)
penis envy becomes power envy (women feel inferior to power men have)

Question 8

allport

Answer 8

trait hierarchy/constellation

label people without explanation

Question 9

cattell

Answer 9

factor analysis

Question 10

eysenck

Answer 10

extraversion, emotionality, narrow down, four fluids (use terminology not actual fluids)

Question 11

barnum effect

Answer 11

people are suckers for labels
love to get labels if
1. told specifically designed for them
2. the slightest bit positive

Question 12

compensation

Answer 12

emphasizing personal strengths in one area to shift focus from failure in another area

Question 13

denial

Answer 13

refusing to accept an obvious situation because of the emotional pain it causes

Question 14

displacement

Answer 14

taking out one’s anger or frustration on a person or object that is not the cause of the offense

Question 15

identification

Answer 15

associating with people or groups that are of higher status in order to increase your own status

Question 16

intellectualization

Answer 16

describing painful or emotional personal events in abstract academic or philosophical terms

Question 17

projection

Answer 17

casting the feelings you have onto another person

blaming another person for the feelings you have

Question 18

rationalization

Answer 18

making logical excuses for illogical or unacceptable behavior

Question 19

reaction formation

Answer 19

replacing feelings that are socially or personally unacceptable with opposing emotions that are acceptable

Question 20

regression

Answer 20

reverting to childlike behavior to get the attention you got when you were younger or to get your way

Question 21

repression

Answer 21

unconsciously forgetting information that is too painful to recall

Question 22

sublimation

Answer 22

using acceptable activities such as exercise as a substitute for sexual energies

Question 23

passive aggressiveness

Answer 23

unassertive expression of negative sentiments