PSYC 102 - PERSONALITY EXAM QUESTIONS AND
ANSWERS WITH COMPLETE SOLUTIONS GRADED A++
Personality
Refers to the enduring patterns of thought, feeling, motivation and behaviour that are
expressed in different circumstances.
Structure of Personality
The organisation of enduring patterns of thought, feeling, motivation and behaviour.
(The way personality processes are organised)
Individual Differences In Personality
The way people differ from one another ( vary in their personality characteristics)
Frued's theory of Psychodynamics
Psychological forces such as wishes, fears and intentions have a direction and intensity.
Freud's Models - Topographic Model
Used a spatial metaphor (the mind as split into sectors) that divided mental processes
into three types:
Conscious
Preconscious
Unconscious
Conscious Mental processes
Are rational, goal directed thoughts at the centre of awareness.
preconscious mental processes
, Are not conscious but could become conscious at any point such as knowledge of the
colour of robins.
unconscious mental processes
Are irrational, organised along associative lines rather that by logic.
Ambivalence
Conflicting feelings or motives
Conflict
A tension or battle between opposing motives.
Compromise formations
The solutions people develop to maximize fulfillment of conflicting motives
simultaneously
Drive Model
Freud's second model was the drive or instinct model. It focused on what drives or
motivates people. Freud stressed the continuity of human and non-human behaviour.
He hypothesised that humans are motivated by drives, or instincts, in the same way as
other animals.
He proposed two basic drives:
1. Sex
2. Aggression
He define sexual drive or libido more broadly that its colloquial usuage. Libido refers as
ANSWERS WITH COMPLETE SOLUTIONS GRADED A++
Personality
Refers to the enduring patterns of thought, feeling, motivation and behaviour that are
expressed in different circumstances.
Structure of Personality
The organisation of enduring patterns of thought, feeling, motivation and behaviour.
(The way personality processes are organised)
Individual Differences In Personality
The way people differ from one another ( vary in their personality characteristics)
Frued's theory of Psychodynamics
Psychological forces such as wishes, fears and intentions have a direction and intensity.
Freud's Models - Topographic Model
Used a spatial metaphor (the mind as split into sectors) that divided mental processes
into three types:
Conscious
Preconscious
Unconscious
Conscious Mental processes
Are rational, goal directed thoughts at the centre of awareness.
preconscious mental processes
, Are not conscious but could become conscious at any point such as knowledge of the
colour of robins.
unconscious mental processes
Are irrational, organised along associative lines rather that by logic.
Ambivalence
Conflicting feelings or motives
Conflict
A tension or battle between opposing motives.
Compromise formations
The solutions people develop to maximize fulfillment of conflicting motives
simultaneously
Drive Model
Freud's second model was the drive or instinct model. It focused on what drives or
motivates people. Freud stressed the continuity of human and non-human behaviour.
He hypothesised that humans are motivated by drives, or instincts, in the same way as
other animals.
He proposed two basic drives:
1. Sex
2. Aggression
He define sexual drive or libido more broadly that its colloquial usuage. Libido refers as
