Unit 10: Part 2

Question 1

Humanistic theories

Answer 1

Views personality with a focus on the potential for healthy personal growth

Question 2

Abraham Maslow

Answer 2

Founding father of the humanistic perspective

Question 3

Hierarchy of Needs

Answer 3

Begins at the base with physiological needs that must first be satisfied before higher level safety needs and then psychological needs become active

Question 4

Self-actualization

Answer 4

The process of fulfilling our potential

Question 5

Self-transcendence

Answer 5

Finding the meaning, purpose and identity beyond the self

Question 6

Carl Rogers

Answer 6

Person-centered perspective focused on a growth-promoting social climate—one that provides acceptance, genuineness, and empathy

Question 7

Unconditional positive regard

Answer 7

A caring, accepting, nonjudgmental attitude, which Carl Rogers believed would help develop self-awareness and self-acceptance

Question 8

Self-concept

Answer 8

All our thoughts and feelings about ourselves in answer to the question, “who am I?”

Question 9

Trait

Answer 9

A characteristic pattern of behavior or a disposition to feel and act in certain ways, as assessed by self-report inventories and peer reports

Question 10

Gordon Allport

Answer 10

Traits theories approach

Question 11

Personality inventory

Answer 11

An objective questionnaire (often with true/false or agree/disagree items) on which people respond to item designed to gauge a wide range of feelings and behaviors; used to assess selected personality traits

Question 12

Minnesota multiphasic personality inventory (MMPI)

Answer 12

The most widely researched and clinically used of all objective personality tests

Question 13

The Big Five Personality Factors (CANOE)

Answer 13

Conscientiousness, agreeableness, neuroticism, openness, and extroversion- offers most clear picture of personality

Question 14

Social-cognitive perspective

Answer 14

Views behavior as influenced by the interaction between peoples traits (includes their thinking) and social context

Question 15

Albert Bandura

Answer 15

Researcher famous for work in observational or social learning, Bobo doll experiment

Question 16

Behavioral approach

Answer 16

Focuses on the effects of learning on our personality development

Question 17

Reciprocal determinism

Answer 17

The interacting influences of behavior, internal cognition, and environment

Question 18

Self

Answer 18

In contemporary psychology, assumed to be the center of personality, the organizer of our thoughts, feelings, and actions

Question 19

Spotlight effect

Answer 19

Overestimating others’ noticing and evaluating our appearance, performance, and blunders (as if we presume a spotlight shines on us)

Question 20

Self-esteem

Answer 20

Ones’ feelings of high or low self-worth

Question 21

Self-efficiency

Answer 21

Ones sense of competence and effectiveness

Question 22

Self-serving bias

Answer 22

A readiness to perceive oneself favorably

Question 23

Narcissism

Answer 23

Excessive self-love and self-absorption

Question 24

Individualism

Answer 24

Giving priority to one’s own goals over group goals

Question 25

Collectivism

Answer 25

Giving priority to the goals of one’s group (work or family group) and defining one’s identity accordingly