Personality quiz

What is a personality?

• The unique traits that make an individual think certain ways

• Individual differences in characteristic patterns of thinking, feeling, and behaving

• A plausible or scientifically acceptable general principle(s) offered to explain a phenomena

• The skills you learn over time that you eventually use at work

Your boy/girlfriend breaks-up with you. You pretend to be just fine when you are really hurting inside.

• regression

• denial

• compensation

• daydreaming

What is a theory?

• The unique traits that make an individual think certain ways

• Individual differences in characteristic patterns of thinking, feeling, and behaving

• A plausible or scientifically acceptable general principle(s) offered to explain a phenomena

• The skills you learn over time that you eventually use at work

We did not win the game because the referee was on the other teams side.

• compensation

• projection

• displaced aggression

• rationalization

You just get by with a C in Math class. You decide to work hard to get A’s in all your other classes to make the honor roll

• denial

• reaction formation

• compensation

• daydreaming

You pick on your little brother or sister after your parents took away your video games because of your poor grades.

• projection

• rationalization

• denial

• displaced aggression

Acting as if you don’t like someone around your friends, even though you really do like them.

• reaction formation

• compensation

• projection

• regression

You blame your Social Studies teacher after failing the unit test. You claim that they never went over the information, even though you didn’t spend any time studying for the test.

• regression

• denial

• projection

• displaced aggression

Displacement

• Taking out your anger on someone else

• Person is aware of bad thoughts/feelings & refuses to deal w/ them

• Person can either cease to communicate or remove themselves physically from a situation

• Substituting one goal to achieve another

According to Sigmund and Anna Freud, which of the following is true about psychological defense mechanisms?

• They operate on the "moralistic principle" and give us a sense of what we should and should not do.

• They deny and distort reality in some way.

• They motivate most of our speech, thoughts, feelings, or actions.

• They are compulsive feelings and behaviors.