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psy Flashcards

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an individual’s unique and enduring patterns of thinking, feeling, and behaving are called

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personality

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the term character refers to

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favorable and unfavorable personal characteristics

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swiss psychiatrist carl jung proposed that people are either

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introverts or extroverts

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the id resides only in the unconscious level of awareness

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true

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evaluating your worth as a person creates either a high or low

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self esteem

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the four approaches to personality covered by the text include all following except

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transactional analysis

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the dimensions of personality stressed by eysenck include whether one is mainly introverted or extroverted and whether one tends to be emotionally stable or unstable

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true

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for psychoanalytic theorists, the principal motives involve

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sex and aggression

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to assess personality, psychologists tend to use

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all of these in combination

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classifying people into two or three types is more informative than rating people on a list of traita

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true

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according to twin studies, the role of environment in shaping personality is

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as much or more important than heredity

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if a personality test measures consistently every time it is given, we say that the test is

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reliable

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the best known and most widely used objective personality test is the

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minnesota multiphasic personality inventory-2

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the rorschach technique involves the use of

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inkblots

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the dominant approach to the study of personality is currently the _ approach

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trait

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a person who is cynical and insensitive, lacks remorse, and is unconcerned with the morality of his or her actions would be described as having the trait of

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psychopathy

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the dimensions of the “big five” factor model of personality are

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extroversion, agreeableness, conscientious, neuroticism, and openness to experience

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regarding personality disorders, which of the following statements is false?

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personality disorders typically emerge abruptly after a traumatic experience

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in freudian theory, the “executive” structure that is directed by the reality principle is the

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ego

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to reduce sexual tension, the sexual energies may be utilized in other activities, such as sports, music, or dancing through a process called

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sublimation

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in an old movie, there were two friends who were always at odds with each other because one was compulsively neat and orderly, while his friend was extremely messy and disorganized according to freud, both men were fixated in the ___stage

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anal

22
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what do the personality theorists karen horney, alfred adler, and carl jung have in common?

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they were all neo freudians

23
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which theorists believe humans have free will and that human nature is inherently good?

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humanists

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carl rogers believed that adults who experience emotional problems

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are too much influenced by the standards of others

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according to maslow, a peak experience allows a person to experience a temporary moment of

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self actualization

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freud

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libido

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adler

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inferiority complex

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maslow

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self actualization

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jung

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collective unconscious

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rogers

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ideal self

31
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statistical approaches to abnormality define as “abnormal” those who

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deviate from the average on an objective measure of behavior

32
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to correctly identify mental disorders and select the best therapies to treat them, psychologists use the

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dsm-5

33
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the categories of depressive disorders and bipolar and related disorders are sometimes collectively referred to as _ disorders

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mood

34
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rebecca has an irrational fear of elevators and escalators to the point that she has walked up 20 flights of stairs, while her older sister is afraid to leave the safety of her home rebecca and her sister each have a type of _ disorder

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anxiety

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which category of disorders involves extreme preoccupation with certain thoughts and the repetitive performance of certain behaviors?

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obsessive compulsive and related disorders

36
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there are major gaps in your memory of events; you feel like you are a robot or a stranger to yourself; or others tell you that you have done things that you don’t remember doing if you showed these symptoms, you would most likely be diagnosed with some form of _ disorder

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dissociative

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which of the following disorders involves a person exhibiting bodily complaints, such as chronic pain that suggest illness or injury but for which there is no identifiable organic cause?

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somatic symptom and related disorders

38
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unhealthy behavior patterns, such as being narcissistic, dependent, or antisocial, can repeatedly cause problems at work, at school, and in your relationships with others these unhealthy behavior patterns are characteristic of which disorders?

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personality disorders

39
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persons who are housebound because they fear that something upsetting will happen if they leave the security of their homes suffer from the anxiety disorder known as agoraphobia

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true

40
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imaginary sensations, such as seeing, hearing, or smelling things that do not exist in the real world, are known as

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hallucinations

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munchausen syndrome and munchausen by proxy syndrome are types of dissociative disorders

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false

42
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people with which disorder either have a high sensitivity to dopamine or have excess amounts of dopamine in their brains?

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schizophrenia

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negative, distorted, or self-defeating thoughts underlie depression, according to the _ theory

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cognitive

44
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which disorder affects about 68 percent of all adults in a given year and involves the person having an intense, irrational fear of being observed, evaluated, embarrassed, or humiliated by others in everyday situations?

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social phobia

45
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which of the following would be evidence of a dissociative disorder?

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a woman is found in a bus station, unable to remember her name or where she lives

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many of freud’s first patients had physical symptoms, such as paralysis or numbness, for which no physical causes could be found freud called this condition

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hysteria

47
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freud called which of the following the “royal road to the unconscious” because forbidden desires and unconscious feelings were freely expressed?

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dreams

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katie is very afraid of deep water according to behavior therapists, the best way to alleviate katie’s fear is to

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help her relax while she gradually becomes accustomed to deeper water

49
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humanistic therapies generally emphasize

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making full use of one’s potential

50
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if you seek counseling from a cognitive behavior therapist, you would expect him or her to

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help you to change inappropriate patterns of thought

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