Quiz 1 (30 Questions) Flashcards
Your personality can be:
1.Rigid and inflexible.
2.Based on traits and behaviour.
3.Constantly changing.
Personality can be summed up by which of the following phrases?
Personality is how we perceive ourselves and also how others perceive us.
Social networking sites, such as Facebook, can:
1.Help a person pretend they are someone else.
2.Increase an idealised self-image.
3.Be as accurate as face-to-face interactions in determining personality.
Children who are exposed to vastly different environments:
Have vastly different personalities.
Girls and boys are still reared according to:
Traditional stereotypes.
The father of modern psychology was:
Wilhelm Wundt.
According to Freud, childhood sexual fantasies are always:
The cause of adult neurosis.
According to Freud, what are the two primary types of instincts?
Life and death.
The ___________ is the root of psychic energy.
Libido.
Freud believed that ________ and _________ are compelling parts of human nature.
Sex/Aggression.
Jung’s view of personality differs from Freud’s in that Jung:
Placed an even greater emphasis on the unconscious.
Jung’s early life:
Was insecure, and he escaped into dreams and fantasies.
Jung saw libido as:
A broader and more generalised form of psychic energy.
Jung broke from Freud’s concepts because:
He decided to follow his own ideas and viewpoints on personality.
For Jung, the total personality is composed of the:
Ego, the personal unconscious, and the collective unconscious.
Which of the following best describes Jung’s beliefs on introversion and extraversion?
A person typically has a dominant attitude towards introversion or extraversion.
The rational functions are:
Thinking and Feeling.
Jung believed that complexes grew out of:
1.Ancestral experiences.
2.Adult experiences.
3.Childhood experiences.
The collective unconscious includes the past experiences of:
Human experiences and the history of our species.
Out of our universal human experience, we all share certain recurring themes called:
Archetypes
Adler placed greater emphasis on:
1.The uniqueness of the individual.
2.Minimizing sex than Freud.
3.The consciousness.
All motivation to strive and succeed comes from:
Attempts to compensate for inferiorities.
A first-born may react to the dethronement caused by the arrival of the second-born by:
1.Becoming insecure and hostile.
2.Hating the new baby.
3.Developing a behaviour problem.
Adler’s explanation of the force that holds society together is his concept of
Social interest.
The child most likely to develop at a remarkably fast rate is the:
Youngest child.
Adler’s image of human nature is:
Optimistic.
In attempting to assess the gates of mental life, Adler used the technique(s) of:
1.Dream analysis.
2.Birth order.
3.Early recollections.
Research has been conducted on Adler’s ideas about:
1.Social interest.
2.Birth order.
3.Dreams.
First-borns tend to be ____ than later-borns.
1.More dependent on other people
2.Higher in IQ
3.More obedient
All of the following are criticisms of Adler’s system:
1.Adler was unsystematic in his thinking.
2.It relies too much on commonsense observations.
3.It is overly simple.
