2024-2025 Ch. 14 Personality Theories Flashcard-7th

Front

According to the trait approach, what is a trait?

Back

An aspect of personality that is considered to be reasonably stable

Front

Who cataloged 18,000 human traits and concluded they are the building blocks of personality?

Back

Gordon Allport

Front

According to Hans Eysenck, what are the two dimensions of personality?

Back

Introversion-extroversion and stability-instability

Front

Which factor of the Five-Factor Model contrasts talkativeness, assertiveness, and activity with silence, passivity, and reserve?

Back

Extroversion

Front

Which defense mechanism removes anxiety-causing ideas by pushing them into the unconsciousness?

Back

Repression

Front

According to Freud's stages of development, which stage occurs during the first year of life when infants stick things in their mouth?

Back

The Oral Stage

Front

Who emphasized mysticism and religion on human behavior in Analytic Psychology?

Back

Carl Jung

Front

According to the humanistic approach, what is the key to happiness? Options: Self-actualization, Self-concept, Self-esteem, Self-efficacy

Back

Self-actualization

Front

Which defense mechanism is characterized by a person refusing to accept the reality of anything bad or upsetting?

Back

Denial

Front

According to the trait approach, where do traits come from?

Back

They are considered to be reasonably stable aspects of personality.