+1 862 207 3288 PSYCHOLOGY STUDY PAGE PART 3
CHAPTER: THEORIES OF PERSONALITY
IT WILL BE HELPFUL TO USE YOUR TEXTBOOK WHILE COMPLETING THIS
ReadText: Experience Psychology (2nd.). King, L.A. New York, NY: McGraw-Hill, 2013. ISBN 978-0-07-803534-0
Provide pages number in bold where you find the answers.
HINT: Your answers will be no longer than one to three words.
1. _____________________ theories of personality emphasize that personality is primarily unconscious (beyond awareness).
2. ___________________ theorized that personality is comprised of 3 structures: the id, the ego, and the superego.
3. Which of the following is NOT one of the types of consciousness proposed by Sigmund Freud?
4. The ______________ is the individual’s reservoir of sexual energy; it operates on the pleasure principle.
5. The _____________is the structural component of personality that operates on the reality principle; it tries to allow the person to experience pleasure, but within the limits of society’s norms.
6. Strategies used by the ego for dealing with the anxiety that arises from conflicts among the id, ego, andsuperego:
7. Psychological defense mechanisms are unhealthy only if
8.The most primitive defense mechanism is ________________.
9. When a person sees in others the impulses that he most fears or despises in himself, he is using the defense mechanism of _______________.
10. The most powerful and pervasive defense mechanism is _______________.
11. What is Albert Bandura’s term for the relationship among the three factors that influence personality?
12. According to Bandura, a person’s belief about his or her skills and ability to perform certain behaviors is known as ___________________.
13. Research on personality has shown a positive link between ________________ and a subjective sense of well-being, i.e., people who score high on the trait have a higher sense of well-being.
14. The trait of ___________________ is associated with gaining weight more
15. Biological factors have been found to play a role in one’s personality.
____________________ is a neurotransmitter that is related to extraversion.
16. Early experiences with warm caregivers and positive life experiences promote the growth of cells that produce ___________ and receptors that receive it.
17. Which type of assessment technique requires a person to respond to unstructured or ambiguous stimuli?
18. The most commonly used personality inventory is the ________________________.
19. Employers such as corporations and police departments that administer a psychological test use a test that yields scores on depression and schizophrenia. What is the name of this psychological test?
20. Which psychological test asks the subject to tell a story based on a picture of one or more people in which it is unclear what is going on?
21. Impulsive behavior has been found to have a positive relationship to which of the following personality traits?
22. Which of the following personality traits are linked to weight gain?
23. A significant example of the mind/body connection is the result of a study that showed that students who reduced their smoking behavior were more likely to show
24. Support group intervention for weight loss seems to work best for
25. His profile of Adolf Hitler serves as a model for criminal profiling today, he believed that a person is largely unaware of his own motives, and he, along with Christina Morgan, developed the Thematic Apperception Test in the 1930’s. He was
