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Mary enjoys socializing with friends and talking with them on her cellphone. Eileen prefers quiet times by herself when she can reflect on her own thoughts. The characteristics of Mary and Eileen indicate that each has a distinctive
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Intro to Psych Final
Chapter 13
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| An individual's characteristic pattern of thinking, feeling, and acting is his or her | Personality |
| Mary enjoys socializing with friends and talking with them on her cellphone. Eileen prefers quiet times by herself when she can reflect on her own thoughts. The characteristics of Mary and Eileen indicate that each has a distinctive | Personality |
| Free association is central to the process of | Psychoanalysis |
| According to Freud, the unconscious is | the thoughts, wishes, feelings, and memories, of which we are largely unaware. |
| Which of the following techniques did Freud use to discover the latent content of his patients' dreams? | Free association |
| According to psychoanalytic theory, the part of the personality that strives for immediate gratification of basic drives is the | Id |
| When 2-year-old Matthew was told he would get no dessert until he finished the food on his plate, he threw his plate on the floor in a temper tantrum. Freud would have suggested that Matthew was unable to resist the demands of his | Id |
| According to Freud, the part of personality that represents our sense of right and wrong and our ideal standards is the | Superego |
| Janine is repulsed by the thought of watching a pornographic video. Freud would have attributed these feelings to Janine's | Superego |
| According to Freud, boys are most likely to experience the Oedipus complex during the ________ stage. | Phallic |
| The Oedipus complex is the term used by Freud to describe | boys' feelings of guilt and fear of punishment over their sexual desire for their mother |
| Four-year-old Timmy had not wet his bed for over a year. However, he started bed-wetting again soon after his sister was born. Timmy's behavior best illustrates | Regression |
| The defense mechanism by which people disguise threatening impulses by attributing them to others is called | Projection |
| The defense mechanism in which self-justifying explanations replace the real, unconscious reasons for actions is | Rationalization |
| A refusal to believe direct and highly credible evidence that your spouse is suffering a terminal illness best illustrates | Denial |
| The famous test introduced by Hermann Rorschach asks test-takers to respond to | Meaningless inkblots |
| Survivors' vivid memories of Nazi death camp experiences most clearly challenge Freud's concept of | repression |
| The humanistic perspective emphasized the importance of | self-determination |
| Abraham Maslow suggested that those who fulfill their potential have satisfied the need for | Self-actualization |
| Carl Rogers referred to an attitude of total acceptance toward another person as | Unconditional positive regard |
| Which of the following have been criticized the most for offering concepts that are vague and subjective? | Humanistic theorists |
| Humanistic theorists have been criticized for | Underestimating the inherent human capacity for destructive and evil behaviors |
| Characteristic patterns of behavior and conscious motives are called | Traits |
| Personality inventories are designed to assess several ________ at once. | traits |
| The tendency to accept favorable descriptions of one's personality that could really be applied to almost anyone is known as | the Barnum effect |
| The Big Five trait dimensions were identified by means of | Factor analysis |
| A person who is careless and disorganized most clearly ranks low on the Big Five trait dimension of | conscientiouness |
| The perception that your fate is determined by luck reflects | an external locus of control |
| Emma believes that she will succeed in business if she works hard and carefully manages her time. Her belief most clearly illustrates | an internal locus of control |
| Dogs strapped into a harness and given repeated and unavoidable shocks developed | learned helplessness |
| The body's disease-fighting immune system is most likely to be dampened by | a pessimistic attributional style |
| Martin Seligman's positive psychology differs from the humanistic perspective in that it | focuses more on a person's defense mechanisms |
| Contemporary psychologists are most likely to consider ________ to be of pivotal importance to personality. | The sense of self |
| Overestimating the extent to which others notice and evaluate our appearance and performance is called | the spotlight effect |
| Jacinda failed her last history midterm. Which of the following conclusions would be most representative of a self-serving bias on Jacinda's part? | "I think the test questions were ambiguous and confusing." |
| Accepting ourselves without undue dependence on the approval of others best illustrates | Secure self-esteem. |
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