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Personality Theory and Assessment
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1. Freud believed the part of our personality that produces childish or animalistic desires is our:
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2. Personality tests that ask people to interpret ambiguous stimuli, such as inkblots or drawings of people, are based on which Freudian defense mechanism?
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3. Juanita’s therapist tells her she seems to have an inferiority complex, probably because she’s the oldest child out of seven siblings and because her parents neglected her. In which personality approach is her therapy likely trained?
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4. Which “Neo-Freudian” theorist suggested universal “archetypes” in literature and myth around the world?
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5. One way to remember the traits in the “Big 5 Model” of personality is to note that the first letter of each trait can spell the word:
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6. Usually, researchers from the trait perspective measure personality by asking people to complete self-report scales with several items in which people rate how much they agree or disagree on a 1-7 scale. This kind of measurement is called a:
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7. Psychologists from the biological perspective sometimes observe the behavior of infants and classify them along ranges such as how emotional or sociable the babies seem. The idea of personality being observable in infants in this way is usually called the baby’s:
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8. A classic series of studies was conducted by Albert Bandura, who asked children to observe adults acting aggressively toward a certain toy. He then measured whether the children showed the same behavior, and found they were more likely to do so if they had seen the model get rewarded. Bandura’s research was most directly important for which personality perspective?
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9. A teacher wants to encourage their children to be polite. Every time they say “please” or “thank you,” the teacher gives them a gold star. At the end of the week, they can exchange their stars for prizes. This kind of behavioral technique is called:
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10. The cognitive perspective on personality states that we each have certain “semantic differentials” we use to interpret the world, such as whether people are friendly or unfriendly. These categories or labels are called our:
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11. Your therapist asks you to consider what your father and boss have in common, then to consider what your favorite teacher and your romantic partner have in common. It seems like you are being asked to complete a version of the cognitive personality test created by Kelly and called:
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12. Your therapist asks you to sort cards with words on them like “friendly” or “generous” into piles indicating whether they are like you, not like you, or somewhere in the middle. It seems like you are being asked to complete a version of the humanistic personality test called:
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13. Some personality tests are criticized for giving “profiles” of people that are so vague they could apply to anyone, like a horoscope. When people believe these results are genuine and valid, this error is called:
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14. Some personality tests have been criticized because their “results” don’t seem to match people’s actual behaviors in a real-world setting. This problem is one of:
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15. Some personality tests are fun, but don’t seem to have any connection to anything beyond theoretical or hypothetical questions such as “What color is your aura?” or “What kind of tree are you?” This problem is one of:
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