PSY200- CHT 11 PERSONALITY Questions and
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personality
Ans: characteristic style of behaving, thinking, and feeling.
self-report
Ans: - provide subjective information about their own thoughts, feelings, or
behaviors,
- via questionnaire or interview-
MMPI
Ans: A well-researched, clinical questionnaire used to assess personality and
psychological problems.
projective tests
Ans: - to reveal inner aspects of individuals' personalities
- analysis of responses to series ambiguous stimuli.
Roschach Inkblot test
Ans: - projective technique
- responses to a set of unstructured inkblots.
TAT
Ans: - projective technique
- underlying motives, concerns,the way they see the social world
- analysis of stories made up about ambiguous pictures of people.
trait
Ans: - stable disposition
- behave in a particular and consistent way.
BIg five
Ans: The traits of the five-factor personality model: openness to experience,
conscientiousness, extraversion, agreeableness, and neuroticism.
psychodynamic approach
Ans: - personality formed by needs, strivings, desires, largely operating outside of
awareness
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- produce emotional disorders.
id
Ans: - part of the mind
- present at birth
- bodily needs, wants, desires, and impulses, particularly our sexual and aggressive
drives.
Superego
Ans: - mental system
- internalization of cultural rules, - learned as parents exercise their authority.
ego
Ans: - component of personality
- contact with the external world
-to deal with life's practical demands.
defense mechanism
Ans: - Unconscious coping mechanisms
- to reduce anxiety from unacceptable impulses.
psychosexual approach
Ans: - Distinct early life stages
- children experience sexual pleasures from specific body areas and caregivers
redirect
- interfere with those pleasures.
fixation
Ans: - pleasure-seeking drives become psychologically stuck, or arrested
- at a particular psychosexual stage.
oral stage
Ans: - first psychosexual stage
- pleasures and frustrations with the mouth, sucking, and being fed.