Personality MCQ Flashcards by Vilde Landro

Empathy is directly involved in

Maternal sensitivity

Full attention provided by self-object

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Concept of temperament

Eysenck
Kretschmer
Watson & Clark

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Depression can typically be characterized by

High neuroticism

Low satisfaction of autonomy needs

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Kohut vertical splitting

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

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

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

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Eysenck’s weak nervous system

Introverts

Early occurring transmarginal inhibition

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Schizothymic temperament

Dystonic process
Increased introversion
Emotional detachment

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High sociability

Extraversion

PEM

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The psychotic process is related to the following problems

Paranoid-schizoid phase

Dysfunctionality self-object in infancy

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Extrinsic goals are the following

Fame
Better grades
Money
Popularity

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Trait introversion

High arousal
Being withdrawn
Vulnerability to lower self-esteem
Shyness

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Constraint is related to

Impulse inhibition
Planning
Temperament

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Maladaptive schemas

Develop early in life
Contain memory
Physiological state
Not necessarily dysfunctional
Recurring patterns of stimuli processing

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Melanie Klein’s depressive position is characterized by

Decreased aggressive tendencies
Ambivalence
Dominance of introjections over projections

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Pre/trans fallacy

Term of Wilber

Altered state of consciousness

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Psychopaths/psychopathy

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

(Yalom) Fear of death can be powerfully present in

Narcissistic and neurotic individuals

Combination of low PEM and low NEM

Choleric temperament

Producses conscientiousness

(Fankle) Finding meaning in life

Can take months/years after a hard life experience

Archived by facing death (as a fact of life)

True for Harm avoidance

High -> person react to new stimulus with fear

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

Kohut’s horizonational splitting

Associated with remains of the repressed grandiose self

Need to relate and belong to other people

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

(Yalom) Defences against four basic human fears

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

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

Well-functioning of self-object

Responsive, nurturing maternal attitude

Emotional health can be increased by

Being altruistic | Coming to a sense of positive resolution of negative experiences

A nice person becomes a health worker

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

Biological trait theory

Eysenck | Cloninger

Inborn factors

Temperament | Libido

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

Evocative transaction | Schematic processing

Working ONLY for the money

Lack of interest/involvement in the job | Extrinsic motivation

Existential psychology

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

Clark's and Watson's temperament model

Equates extraversion with positive emotionality | Integrates mood, emotion, and temperament

Cloninger's cooperativeness

Closely related to scale reward dependence | Developed consciously

Eysenck extraverts

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

Our personal narratives promote

Autobiographical reasoning involves self-insight | If we don't have a repressive coping style