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Theories of Personality Exam 1 Questions And
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Goals of personality psychology - Answer✔describe, explain, understand, predict
definition of psychology - Answer✔refers to an individual's characteristic patterns of thought,
emotion, and behavior together with the psychological mechanisms (hidden or not) behind
those patterns
six perspectives of personality - Answer✔psychoanalytic, psychoanalytic-social, trait, learning,
cognitive social learning, humanistic
how can personality be described? - Answer✔nomothetic or idiographic approach
nomothetic - Answer✔groups of people
idiographic - Answer✔focusing on one person
how do we understand personality dynamics? - Answer✔motivation and adaptation
minnesota multi-phasic personality inventory (MMIP-2) - Answer✔originally developed in late
1930; has 550 true/false statements
pyschoanalytic perspective: major assumptions - Answer✔personality is dynamic, personality is
determined, personality is organizational, focus is on development
three levels of consciousness (Freud) - Answer✔conscious mind, preconscious mind,
unconscious mind
unconscious mind - Answer✔the dominant part of your mind (much of our behavior is due to
forces within the unconscious)
preconscious mind - Answer✔includes thoughts that you are not immediately aware of but can
be brought to awareness fairly easily
conscious mind - Answer✔includes what you are aware of at a given point in time and only a
small part of your thoughts/memories are conscious
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Freud's dream theory - Answer✔Freud believed that dreams are the single, best source of
information about the unconscious; dreams are highly sufficient, carefully constructed, and
always contain a concealed meaning; dreams are not random
manifest content - Answer✔what you remember from a dream; Freud believed that what you
remembered is very deceptive and you should not take it at face value
latent content - Answer✔the underlying meaning
the id and dreams - Answer✔dreams are part of the primary processing of the id; the id gains
strength while you are alseep
the ego and dreams - Answer✔ego lessens the threat of the id's images through dream work
dream work - Answer✔the process of modifying and distorting images in dreams
mechanisms of dream work - Answer✔condensation, displacement, censorship, symbolic
substitution
symbolic substitution - Answer✔when the ego uses a symbol which substitutes for something
more threatening (because the real thing would be threatening or inappropriate)
censorship - Answer✔certain parts of a dream are censored, blocked out; this is why dreams
are not alway sequential
displacement - Answer✔involves shifting emphasis so that an important part of the dream is
changed to something unimportant
condensation - Answer✔when the ego combines and compresses separate thoughts into one
thought
process of dream interpretation - Answer✔a person reports the manifest content of the dream
and then makes associations about the dream and the analysis interprets the latent content of
the dream and associations (dream interpretations are alway subjective)
projects - Answer✔refers to a standard set of vague stimuli, called projectives because the
client is supposed to project themselves upon the stimulus and give a response that reveals
something about themselves
categories of projectives - Answer✔association, construction, completion, expression
projectives used for personality - Answer✔projectives used to be used as primary sources of
personality, now they are used more as secondary
strengths of projectives - Answer✔allows clients great freedom and expression, the only
assessment method that taps into the unconscious mind, still widely used today
weaknesses of projectives - Answer✔reliability is only moderate, validity is generally poor, tend
to be expensive to give, there are less expensive techniques that work just as well if not better
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Theories of Personality Exam 1 Questions And
Answers |Latest 2025 | Guaranteed Pass.
Goals of personality psychology - Answer✔describe, explain, understand, predict
definition of psychology - Answer✔refers to an individual's characteristic patterns of thought,
emotion, and behavior together with the psychological mechanisms (hidden or not) behind
those patterns
six perspectives of personality - Answer✔psychoanalytic, psychoanalytic-social, trait, learning,
cognitive social learning, humanistic
how can personality be described? - Answer✔nomothetic or idiographic approach
nomothetic - Answer✔groups of people
idiographic - Answer✔focusing on one person
how do we understand personality dynamics? - Answer✔motivation and adaptation
minnesota multi-phasic personality inventory (MMIP-2) - Answer✔originally developed in late
1930; has 550 true/false statements
pyschoanalytic perspective: major assumptions - Answer✔personality is dynamic, personality is
determined, personality is organizational, focus is on development
three levels of consciousness (Freud) - Answer✔conscious mind, preconscious mind,
unconscious mind
unconscious mind - Answer✔the dominant part of your mind (much of our behavior is due to
forces within the unconscious)
preconscious mind - Answer✔includes thoughts that you are not immediately aware of but can
be brought to awareness fairly easily
conscious mind - Answer✔includes what you are aware of at a given point in time and only a
small part of your thoughts/memories are conscious
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Freud's dream theory - Answer✔Freud believed that dreams are the single, best source of
information about the unconscious; dreams are highly sufficient, carefully constructed, and
always contain a concealed meaning; dreams are not random
manifest content - Answer✔what you remember from a dream; Freud believed that what you
remembered is very deceptive and you should not take it at face value
latent content - Answer✔the underlying meaning
the id and dreams - Answer✔dreams are part of the primary processing of the id; the id gains
strength while you are alseep
the ego and dreams - Answer✔ego lessens the threat of the id's images through dream work
dream work - Answer✔the process of modifying and distorting images in dreams
mechanisms of dream work - Answer✔condensation, displacement, censorship, symbolic
substitution
symbolic substitution - Answer✔when the ego uses a symbol which substitutes for something
more threatening (because the real thing would be threatening or inappropriate)
censorship - Answer✔certain parts of a dream are censored, blocked out; this is why dreams
are not alway sequential
displacement - Answer✔involves shifting emphasis so that an important part of the dream is
changed to something unimportant
condensation - Answer✔when the ego combines and compresses separate thoughts into one
thought
process of dream interpretation - Answer✔a person reports the manifest content of the dream
and then makes associations about the dream and the analysis interprets the latent content of
the dream and associations (dream interpretations are alway subjective)
projects - Answer✔refers to a standard set of vague stimuli, called projectives because the
client is supposed to project themselves upon the stimulus and give a response that reveals
something about themselves
categories of projectives - Answer✔association, construction, completion, expression
projectives used for personality - Answer✔projectives used to be used as primary sources of
personality, now they are used more as secondary
strengths of projectives - Answer✔allows clients great freedom and expression, the only
assessment method that taps into the unconscious mind, still widely used today
weaknesses of projectives - Answer✔reliability is only moderate, validity is generally poor, tend
to be expensive to give, there are less expensive techniques that work just as well if not better
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