Personality MCQ Flashcards

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1
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Empathy is directly involved in

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Maternal sensitivity

Full attention provided by self-object

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2
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Concept of temperament

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Eysenck
Kretschmer
Watson & Clark

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3
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Depression can typically be characterized by

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High neuroticism

Low satisfaction of autonomy needs

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4
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Kohut vertical splitting

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Associated with narcissism
Demanding attitude with feelings of superiority
Grandiose self-image

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5
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A highly coherent personal narrative involves great amount of self-knowledge and insight based on?

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Finding meaning in events
Deep/long thinking about events
Finding a positive resolution of negative events

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6
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Eysenck’s weak nervous system

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Introverts

Early occurring transmarginal inhibition

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7
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Schizothymic temperament

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Dystonic process
Increased introversion
Emotional detachment

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8
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High sociability

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Extraversion

PEM

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9
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The psychotic process is related to the following problems

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Paranoid-schizoid phase

Dysfunctionality self-object in infancy

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10
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Extrinsic goals are the following

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Fame
Better grades
Money
Popularity

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11
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Trait introversion

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High arousal
Being withdrawn
Vulnerability to lower self-esteem
Shyness

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12
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Constraint is related to

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Impulse inhibition
Planning
Temperament

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13
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Maladaptive schemas

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Develop early in life
Contain memory
Physiological state
Not necessarily dysfunctional
Recurring patterns of stimuli processing
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14
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Melanie Klein’s depressive position is characterized by

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Decreased aggressive tendencies
Ambivalence
Dominance of introjections over projections

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15
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Pre/trans fallacy

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Term of Wilber

Altered state of consciousness

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16
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Psychopaths/psychopathy

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Lack of empathy and egocentration
Dimension of Eysenck
Primary and secondary type

17
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(Yalom) Fear of death can be powerfully present in

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Narcissistic and neurotic individuals

18
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Combination of low PEM and low NEM

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Choleric temperament

Producses conscientiousness

19
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(Fankle) Finding meaning in life

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Can take months/years after a hard life experience

Archived by facing death (as a fact of life)

20
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True for Harm avoidance

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High -> person react to new stimulus with fear

High -> react to signals of punishment with termination of current behavior

21
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Kohut’s horizonational splitting

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Associated with remains of the repressed grandiose self

22
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Need to relate and belong to other people

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Expressed in reward dependence (Cloninger)
Relatedness need (STD)
Natural and present in all cultures

23
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(Yalom) Defences against four basic human fears

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Denial of reality
Denial of responsibility
Belief of the ultimate rescuer
Displacement of responsibility

24
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If idealized parent image is well developed in the coherent stage that implies

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Well-functioning of self-object

Responsive, nurturing maternal attitude

25
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Emotional health can be increased by

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Being altruistic

Coming to a sense of positive resolution of negative experiences

26
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A nice person becomes a health worker

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Can be both unconscious or conscious choice
High agreeableness
Generate kindness in return in others by evocative transaction

27
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Biological trait theory

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Eysenck

Cloninger

28
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Inborn factors

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Temperament

Libido

29
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Neuroticism may lead to the experience of more negative events in one’s life due to

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Evocative transaction

Schematic processing

30
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Working ONLY for the money

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Lack of interest/involvement in the job

Extrinsic motivation

31
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Existential psychology

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Frankl’s work
Goes under the surface of everyday problems
Explicitly and openly report fears from death

32
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Clark’s and Watson’s temperament model

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Equates extraversion with positive emotionality

Integrates mood, emotion, and temperament

33
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Cloninger’s cooperativeness

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Closely related to scale reward dependence

Developed consciously

34
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Eysenck extraverts

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Weaker excitation and stronger cortical inhibition
Sociability and stimuli-seeking due to lower arousal
Optimal arousal is at a higher stimulus intensity

35
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Our personal narratives promote

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Autobiographical reasoning involves self-insight

If we don’t have a repressive coping style