PSCL 101 Chapter 13 Study Guide: Personality Psychology Review
Personality - ANS ✔✔"a person's characteristic thoughts, emotional responses, and behaviors"
Personality trait - ANS ✔✔a pattern of thought, emotion, and behavior that is relatively
consistent over time and across situations
Temperaments - ANS ✔✔biologically based tendencies to feel or act in certain ways
Activity level - ANS ✔✔the overall amount of energy and behavior a person exhibits
Emotionality - ANS ✔✔the intensity of emotional reactions
Sociability - ANS ✔✔the general tendency to affiliate with others
Psychodynamic theory - ANS ✔✔the Freudian theory that unconscious forces determine
behavior
Id - ANS ✔✔the component of personality completely in the unconscious that operates on the
pleasure principle
Superego - ANS ✔✔the internalization of societal and parental standards of conduct
Ego - ANS ✔✔the component of personality that mediates between id and superego
Defense mechanisms - ANS ✔✔unconscious mental strategies the mind uses to protect itself
from anxiety
Personality - ANS ✔✔"a person's characteristic thoughts, emotional responses, and behaviors"
Personality trait - ANS ✔✔a pattern of thought, emotion, and behavior that is relatively
consistent over time and across situations
Temperaments - ANS ✔✔biologically based tendencies to feel or act in certain ways
Activity level - ANS ✔✔the overall amount of energy and behavior a person exhibits
Emotionality - ANS ✔✔the intensity of emotional reactions
Sociability - ANS ✔✔the general tendency to affiliate with others
Psychodynamic theory - ANS ✔✔the Freudian theory that unconscious forces determine
behavior
Id - ANS ✔✔the component of personality completely in the unconscious that operates on the
pleasure principle
Superego - ANS ✔✔the internalization of societal and parental standards of conduct
Ego - ANS ✔✔the component of personality that mediates between id and superego
Defense mechanisms - ANS ✔✔unconscious mental strategies the mind uses to protect itself
from anxiety
