Crash Course 22 Quiz

According to traditional Chinese medicine, our personalities depend on the balance of five elements: Earth, Wind, Water, Metal and _______.

• Fire

• Wood

• Ice

• Light

Instead of focusing on things like lingering unconscious influences or missed growth opportunities, trait theory researchers look to define personality through stable and lasting behavior patterns and conscious _______.

• actions

• thoughts (motivations)

• feelings

• decisions

Who did Gordon Allport go visit?

• Sigmund Freud

• Carl Jung

• Abraham Maslow

• B.F. Skinner

Allport thought Freud was digging a little too deep, and that sometimes you just need to look at motives in the present, not the past, to describe _______.

• behavior

• personality

• subconscious

• dreams

The important idea here is that these traits are hypothesized to predict behavior and the _______ cognitive perspective.

• analytical

• social

• developmental

• evolutionary

That's why one of the key indicators of personality in this school of thought has to do with our sense of _______ control -- that is, the extent to which you perceive that you have control over your environment.

• internal (personal)

• external

• absolute

• limited

And finally, there are the Humanistic theorists like Maslow. They often reject standardized assessments altogether. Instead, they tend to measure your self-concept through therapy, _______ _______, and questionnaires that ask subjects to describe both how they would ideally like to be and how they actually are.

• personal interviews

• cognitive tests

• behavioral observations

• emotional evaluations

All the books out there about self-esteem, self-help, self-awareness, self-control, and so on are built upon one assumption: that the self is the organizer of our thoughts and feelings and actions: essentially the center of a _______.

• community

• personality

• society

• universe