A.P. Psych Ch 12 Review

_____ is defined as the unique qualities and distinctive behavior patterns of an individual across time and situations.

• Genetic makeup

• Psychopathology

• Personality

• Social history

• Psychic determinism

Psychanalytic psychologists tend to focus on:

• The good in all people

• The future

• Learning through rewards and punishments

• Unconscious motives

• Our thought processes

What is the central assumption of all psychodynamic theories?

• The hierarchy of the id, ego, and superego is destructive

• There is no interplay between Thanatos and Eros

• Most of an individual's personality is governed by unconscious forces

• Early experiences have little impact on the adult personality

• Perception and social experience greatly influence our personalities

_____ proposed the concept of collective unconscious.

• Jung

• Freud

• Bandura

• Adler

• Rotter

The Rorschach inkblot test is said to:

• Be highly valid

• Have questionable accuracy

• Be very objectives

• Be used infrequently today in clinical settings

• None of these are correct

in the film Star Wars, Darth Vader is the evil leader, Luke is the hero, and Yoda is the wise one. All of these characters according to Carl Jung represent.

• Our shadow personality

• The personal unconscious

• Archtypes

• The principle of opposites

• Defense mechanisms

Karen Horney believed that normal desires taken to extremes were called:

• Defense mechanisms

• Inferiority complex

• Neurotic needs

• Archetypes

• Collective unconscious

In order to overcome feelings of inferiority, Adler believed that individuals will:

• Use projection

• Model an archetype

• Create neurotic needs

• Create fixations

• Compensate

Post-Freudian theorists changed psychodynamic personality theory through their:

• Extension of personality development beyond childhood

• Emphasis of urge over social variables

• Expansion of the role of libidinal energy

• De-emphasis of ego defenses

• Creation of the Thanatos concept

_____ proposed the first trait theory, involving cardinal, central and secondary traits

• Allport

• Maslow

• Costa and McCrae

• Bandura

• Rogers