PSYCH 2054 Personality Final Study Guide
Questions and Answers with Complete Solution
Correct
Incorrect
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, -Attachment patterns are self-fulfilling: learned in childhood, reinforced across young
adulthood
-Change is difficult but not impossible.
-Even people with secure attachments can have relationship problems: people with low
attachment anxiety/secure attachments have a large decrease in relationship satisfaction
over time if they have high fluctuations in feelings of attachment, and are as unsatisfied as
people with high attachment anxiety.
-Moving to two dimensions: anxiety and avoidance (People low in both are securely attached;
people high in anxiety and avoidance do not pay attention to signs of emotion from others)
-Evidence of unconscious priming of attachment figures: People responded faster to names of
people with whom they were emotionally attached after a threatening subliminal prime than
after a neutral prime; there was not a difference for names of people with whom they were
acquainted but not attached.
-The doctrine of opposites: too anxious or too avoidant is bad; the ideal is in the
-1950middle.s survey:
---men: 5% exclusively homosexual and 10% had at least one extended period of homosexual
experience
---women: 3% exclusively homosexual and 13% had at least one same-sex sexual experience
-Freud: Socialization shapes the way that attraction and gratification are directed.
-Homosexuality was listed as a mental disorder until the 1970s.
---Problems: it is common and seen in nonhuman species; people with various orientations
have happy, productive, and healthy lives.
-An explanation of the origin of homosexuality is not empirically well established or widely
accepted.
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Definition
Diagnosis
-Follow three steps
1) Assess whether personality functioning is seriously impaired and rate degree
of dysfunction.
,
Questions and Answers with Complete Solution
Correct
Incorrect
,
, -Attachment patterns are self-fulfilling: learned in childhood, reinforced across young
adulthood
-Change is difficult but not impossible.
-Even people with secure attachments can have relationship problems: people with low
attachment anxiety/secure attachments have a large decrease in relationship satisfaction
over time if they have high fluctuations in feelings of attachment, and are as unsatisfied as
people with high attachment anxiety.
-Moving to two dimensions: anxiety and avoidance (People low in both are securely attached;
people high in anxiety and avoidance do not pay attention to signs of emotion from others)
-Evidence of unconscious priming of attachment figures: People responded faster to names of
people with whom they were emotionally attached after a threatening subliminal prime than
after a neutral prime; there was not a difference for names of people with whom they were
acquainted but not attached.
-The doctrine of opposites: too anxious or too avoidant is bad; the ideal is in the
-1950middle.s survey:
---men: 5% exclusively homosexual and 10% had at least one extended period of homosexual
experience
---women: 3% exclusively homosexual and 13% had at least one same-sex sexual experience
-Freud: Socialization shapes the way that attraction and gratification are directed.
-Homosexuality was listed as a mental disorder until the 1970s.
---Problems: it is common and seen in nonhuman species; people with various orientations
have happy, productive, and healthy lives.
-An explanation of the origin of homosexuality is not empirically well established or widely
accepted.
Don't know?
3 of 48
Definition
Diagnosis
-Follow three steps
1) Assess whether personality functioning is seriously impaired and rate degree
of dysfunction.
,
