Personality Psychology

Personality is best defined as an individual's

• characteristic pattern of thinking, feeling, and acting.

• most noticeable characteristics.

• biologically inherited temperament.

• hidden thoughts and emotions.

Mark typically responds to stress in a calm and thoughtful manner. Tom, on the other hand, usually becomes agitated. The reaction of Mark and tom indicate that each has a distinctive

• reaction formation.

• collective unconscious.

• personality.

• Oedipus Complex.

Tests that present ambiguous stimuli designed to uncover hidden personality dynamics are called ____________ tests.

• empirical

• projective

• aptitude

• really hard

Trait theorists have been most criticized for

• underestimating the potential influence of biological factors on personality development.

• underestimating the extent to by which people differ from one another.

• overestimating the consistency of behavior from one situation to another.

• overestimating the importance of childhood experiences on adult personality traits.

Carl Rogers emphasized the importance of __________ in regards to healthy personality development.

• the collective unconscious

• unconditional positive regard

• reciprocal determinism.

• the primary care giver

The Big 5 Personality traits include:

• Openness & Conscientiousness

• Extraversion & Agreeableness

• Assertiveness & Integrity

• Neuroticism

Abraham Maslow

• Behavior theory

• Social cognitive therapy

• Humanistic theory

• Psychoanalytic theory

The ideas of Id Ego Superego came from which of the following psychologists?

• Freud

• Rogers

• Allport

• Maslow

Big 5 characteristics

• Trait Theory

• Humanistic

• Psychoanalytic

• Behavioral

Humanistic psychologist who developed the concept of the “self” and “unconditional positive regard”

• Alfred Adler

• Carl Rogers

• Sigmund Freud

• Abraham Maslow