Quiz 6 Flashcards
During a conversation with a friend, Al starts to get angry, but this is an emotion that he considers inappropriate and childish. As a result, instead of noticing his own anger, he unknowingly starts to believe that his friend is becoming angry and excited, even though she is doing no such thing. This example best demonstrates the defence mechanism of ________.
Projection
The ego operates according to the __________ principle, whereas the id operates according to the __________ principle.
reality; pleasure
A person who refuses to acknowledge the anxiety-arousing aspects of the situation is demonstrating ______________.
Denial
A central concept in Carl Rogers’s theory is our consistent set of perceptions of and beliefs about ourselves and is referred to as _______________.
The Self
Gene has just been diagnosed with terminal cancer. When he describes the diagnosis to his wife, he speaks unemotionally about the type of cellular mechanisms involved in the cancer. He is likely using the ____________ defense mechanism
Intellectualization
Karen develops an intense fear of mathematics while in college. She then volunteers to tutor grade-school children in math once a week and talks about how much she enjoys math while being mostly unaware of her underlying fear. This would be an example of ________.
Reaction Formation
Theorists that focus on the mental representations that people form of themselves and other people as a result of early experiences with caregivers are called _________ theorists.
Object Relations
A psychology professor emphasizes the role of conscious experiences, and an individual’s creative potential and inborn striving for self-actualization as the foundations of personality. The professor is a proponent of the __________.
Humanistic Perspective
Gerald constantly feels as if he should be doing better in school, although his grades are often above average. Adler would likely suggest that Gerald has a(n) ________.
Inferiority Complex
Jung’s concept of the archetype is most strongly associated with which of the following?
-Attachment
-The inferiority complex
-The collective unconscious
-Repression
The Collective Unconscious
Hans Eysenck’s two-factor model of personality was the first modern theory to
-predict specific behaviours even better than more narrow trait measures
-postulate a possible biological basis for his traits
-be the only model that includes extraversion and neuroticism
-be derived from the use of both factor analysis and intuition
postulate a possible biological basis for his traits
Which attachment style is described by the following? “I find it relatively easy to get close to others and am comfortable depending on them and having them depend on me.”
Secure
Carl Rogers believed that ____________ can produce serious negative consequences for people by creating significant _____________ between self-perceptions and experience along with a need to distort or alter important experiences.
conditions of worth; incongruence
A student has the belief that they are good in math, but has just received her first “D” grade in freshman calculus class. This inconsistency will most likely generate what Carl Rogers termed ________.
A threat
According to Carl Rogers and other humanistic theorists the active process of realizing our total human potential is referred to as self-_____________.
actualization
