Psychology 8

Question 1

Most popular personality test?

Answer 1

Myers-Briggs Type Indicator
extraversion/introversion, sensing/intuition, feeling/thinking

Question 2

id

Answer 2

socially developed, present at birth. biological drives that energize us. hunger, sex, thirst. devil on shoulder

Question 3

pleasure principle

Answer 3

id’s boundless drive for immediate gratification. tension builds until satisfied

Question 4

superego

Answer 4

socially developed, motivates us to behave in ways that are moral ideal or perfect

Question 5

ego

Answer 5

mediates conflict between wants of id and shoulds of superego

Question 6

reality principle

Answer 6

goal is to reduce tension but at an appropriate time and place

Question 7

extravert

Answer 7

person who seeks stimulation and is sociable and impulsive

Question 8

introvert

Answer 8

kind of person who avoids stimulation and is lowkey and cautious

Question 9

locus of control

Answer 9

expectancy that one’s reinforcements are generally controlled by internal or external factors

Question 10

fixation

Answer 10

tendency to get stuck at a immature stage of psychosexual stages

Question 11

oral fixation

Answer 11

if weaned off too early or late as a baby you might bite your nails chew gum or smoke

Question 12

defense mechanism

Answer 12

unconscious methods of minimizing anxiety by denying or distorting reality

Question 13

self actualization

Answer 13

a drive to behave in ways that are consistent with one’s conscious identity

Question 14

self efficacy

Answer 14

belief that you are capable of performing the behaviors required to produce a desired outcome. believing that you can achieve goals.

Question 15

unconditional positive regard

Answer 15

situation where the love and acceptance someone gives if unconditional no matter what someone does no judgement or criticism

Question 16

conditional positive regard

Answer 16

love and acceptance someone gives is based on one’s behavior acceptance only when standard is met

Question 17

repression

Answer 17

threatening thoughts memories impulses are banned from awareness blocking things out

Question 18

denial

Answer 18

form of repression where anxiety filled external events are banned from mind

Question 19

projection

Answer 19

people project their own unacceptable impulses onto others

Question 20

reaction formation

Answer 20

converting an unacceptable feeling into its opposite

Question 21

rationalization

Answer 21

making excuses for one’s failure/shortcomings

Question 22

sublimation

Answer 22

channeling repressed sexual or aggressive urges into socially acceptable outlets

Question 23

Carl Jung theory

Answer 23

same as freud unconscious is repressed material from one’s personal life and believe in the collective unconscious

Question 24

Alfred Adler theory

Answer 24

personality comes from social conflicts rather than sexual tension ex; sibling rivalry

Question 25

projective tests

Answer 25

allows people to project unconscious needs wishes onto ambiguous stimuli

Question 26

Thematic appreciation test

Answer 26

Projective test that asks people to make up stories about ambiguous pictures

Question 27

rorschach test

Answer 27

people are asked to report what they see in inkblots

Question 28

cognitive social learning approach

Answer 28

focuses on social learning (modeling) and expectancies behaviorism basically idk

Question 29

reciprocal determinism

Answer 29

view that personality emerges from a mutual interaction of individuals actions environments

Question 30

humanistic theory

Answer 30

focuses on the self subjective experience and capacity for fulfillment

Question 31

carl roger’s theory

Answer 31

we are social creatures dependent on others for love and acceptance

Question 32

abraham maslow

Answer 32

self actualized people have more peak experiences least important to most: psychological needs, love and belonging, self esteem, self actualization