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Intr 2 Psy Final EX4
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... is defined as a distinctive and relatively stable pattern of behaviors, thoughts, motives, and emotions that characterize an individual. | personality |
Psychodynamic theory of personality was developed by ... | Sigmund Freud |
Theorists within the psychodynamic tradition would agree that ... | adult personalities and ongoing problems are formed by primarily by experiences in early childhood |
In psychoanalysis, what component is a referee between the needs of instinct and the demands of society? | ego |
Ryan once stepped on a snake during a field trip and was unharmed, but shaken. Once his friends mentioned it much later, Ryan couldn't remember running down the hill that day. Freud would say this is a... | repression |
In psychoanalysis, what component of personality is present at birth and is the reservoir of unconscious psychological energies and the motives to avoid pain and obtain pleasure. | id |
In psychoanalysis, a ... is a strategy that denies or distorts reality , but protect us from conflict and anxiety. | defense mechanism |
What defense mechanism is involves reversion to an earlier phase of psychological development? | regression |
According to Freud, ... is the stage of psychosexual development that is present during the first year of life. | the oral stage |
Four year old Susy sits in between her parents on the couch, and cuddles her dad but refuses to kiss her mom . This is an example of ... | oedipus complex |
... said there is a collective unconscious shared by all human beings, containing universal memories, symbols, and images that are the legacy of human history. | Carl Jung |
Archetypes are ... | Universal, symbolic, images that appear in myths and dreams |
The... are the most critical for the inner core of personality according to objection-relation theorists | first two years of life |
For Gordon Allport, our personalities reflect ... | five to ten central traits and additional secondary traits |
... is a fundamental personality dimension that decribes the extent to which people are outgoing or shy. | Extroversion vs introversion |
... according to the personality researchers. is an important trait that is not included among the Big Five | Religiosity |
Physiological dispositions to respond to the environment in certain ways that are present in infancy are called. | temperaments |
Zach's father taped a colorful picture besides his changing table but the picture agitated Zach and made him nervous. Zach is most likely to be classified as a ... child | reactive |
... is a statistical estimate of the proportion of total variance in some trait thats attributable to genetic differences among individuals within a group. | heritability |
What describes the general relationship between genes and personality? | A genetic predisposition does not necessarily imply genetic |
The two-way interaction between aspects of the environment and aspects of the individual in the shaping of personality traits is called ... | reciprocal determinism |
In Ana's culture, group harmony takes precedence over the wishes of the individual. It is most likely Ana defines herself ... | in the context of her relationships |
Which theories of personality would be most likely to emphasize the freedom of individuals to choose to act in particular ways? | Humanism |
For Abraham Maslow, our personalities reflect ... | a gradual progression toward self-actualization |
... is love and support given to another person with no conditions attached. | Unconditional positive regard |
Rollo May would have been most likely to agree that ... | our personalities reflect the ways we cope with the inevitable struggle to find meaning in life |
According to the ... view of personality, the story we tell about ourselves shapes who we are. | narrative |
Which statement is consistent with Benjamin Whorf's proposal about language? | grammatical aspects affect the way we think about the world |
Peter thinks of Thanksgiving as holiday expectations. This is all apart of his ... | cognitive schema |
A... process occurs outside of conscious awareness, but is accessible to consciousness when necessary. | subconscious |
Fenton learned how to beat a game without consciously identifying what he was doing. This type of learning is called ... | implicit learning |
Which statement is true about the mindless processing of information? | It has benefits but can also lead to mishaps and serious errors. |
Which statement is true of formal reasoning? | In formal reasoning, the information needed to draw conclusions or reaching a solution is specified clearly. |
Dialectal reasoning involves... | comparing and evaluating opposing views in order to determine the best solution |
When using the availability heuristic, people tend to judge the probability of an event based on... | how easy it is to think of instances of it |
the traditional approach to intelligence, the... approach, focuses on how well people perform on standardized aptitude tests | psychometric |
Stereotype threat refers to ... | a burden of doubt a person feels about his or her performance , due to negative stereotypes about his or her group's abilities |
Metacognition is... | the knowledge or awareness of ones own cognitive process. |
According to the triarchic theory of intelligence, there are three kinds of intelligence. ... intelligence refers to the practical application of intelligence in different situations and environments | contextual |