WEEK 7: Personality

Question 1

What is a psychological construct used to describe the different ways in which individuals consistently think, feel and respond to the external environment.

1. Consciousness
2. Personality
3. Unconscious mental processes
4. Syntax

Answer 1

Personality

Question 2

A view developed by Freud that emphasises the interplay of unconscious mental processes in
determining human thought, feelings and behaviour

1. Opinion
2. Personality
3. Syntax
4. Psychodynamic approach

Answer 2

Psychodynamic approach

Question 3

The operating principle of the ego that creates compromises between the id’s demands and those of the real world

1. Libido
2. Reality principle
3. Pleasure principle
   4 . id

Answer 3

Reality principle

Question 4

The first of Freud’s psychosexual stages of personality development, in which the mouth is the centre
of pleasure and conflict

1. Oedipal stage
2. The Phallic stage
3. The anal stage
4. The oral stage

Answer 4

Oral stage

Question 5

The second of Freud’s psychosexual stages of personality development, in which the focus of
pleasure and conflict shifts from the mouth to the anus.

1. Oedipal stage
2. The Phallic stage
3. The anal stage
4. The oral stage

Answer 5

The anal stage

Question 6

The third of Freud’s psychosexual stages of personality development, in which the focus of
pleasure and conflict shifts to the genital area

1. Oedipal stage
2. The Phallic stage
3. The anal stage
4. The oral stage

Answer 6

The phallic stage

Question 7

Oedipal complex a pattern described by Freud in which a boy has sexual desire for his mother and wants to eliminate his father’s competition for her attention

1. Oedipal stage
2. The Phallic stage
3. The anal stage
4. The oral stage

Answer 7

Oedipal stage

Question 8

The fourth of Freud’s psychosexual stages of personality development, in which sexual impulses lie dormant

1. Latency period
2. The Phallic stage
3. The anal stage
4. The oral stage

Answer 8

Latency period

Question 9

A pattern described by Freud in which a young girl develops an attachment to her father and competes with her mother for his attention

1. Latency period
2. Electra complex4.
3. The anal stage
4. The oral stage

Answer 9

Electra complex

Question 10

Five stages of psychosexual personality development;

1. Anal, oral, latency and genital
2. Oral, anal, phallic, latency and genital
3. Genital, oral, anal, phallic and latency

Answer 10

Oral, anal, phallic, latency and genital

Question 11

Which psychologist created the three major components of personality: the id (impulses and urges), the ego (mediator between the demanding id and the real world), and the superego (tells us what we should and should not do) Nine different mechanisms that help protect a person from anxiety and guilt?

1. Carl Jung
2. Sigmund Freud
3. Karen Horney
4. Alfred Adler

Answer 11

Sigmund Freud

Question 12

Argued for libido (psychic energy) as a life force Collective unconscious (memories) is responsible for our innate tendencies We develop degrees of introversion (own experiences) and extraversion (social experiences)

1. Carl Jung
2. Sigmund Freud
3. Karen Horney
4. Alfred Adler

Answer 12

Carl Jung

Question 13

As individuals, we strive for superiority and fulfilment Meeting needs socially is important

1. Carl Jung
2. Sigmund Freud
3. Karen Horney
4. Alfred Adler

Answer 13

Alfred Adler

Question 14

Disputed Freud, arguing that need for security was important Recognised the influence of culture rather than instincts on personality

1. Carl Jung
2. Sigmund Freud
3. Karen Horney
4. Alfred Adler

Answer 14

Karen Horney

Question 15

five-factor personality model (Big Five model) a view based on factor-analytic studies suggesting the existence of five basic
components of human personality:

1. openness, conscientiousness, extraversion, agreeableness and neuroticism

OR

2. Conscientiousness, extraversion, agreeableness and Neuroticism

Answer 15

openness, conscientiousness, extraversion, agreeableness and neuroticism