Personality (PPP2014) questions: 1

Clare foolishly believes Tom when he tells her that the chewing gum she just swallowed will take seven years to digest

A woman who knows she has active herpes and untreated syphilis but continues to have sex without informing her partners of her condition has, in psychoanalytic terms

What is the layer of the mind that includes all the Id, Superego, and most of the Ego?

Bobby is thirsty and wants his mother to get him a drink. He waits until she has finished talking to her friend and then asks ‘Mummy, please can I have a drink of water?’ His mother then fetches him a cup of water. Bobby’s behaviour represents

Most neo-Freudians differ from Freud in three respects. Which of the answers below is NOT one of these ways?

Karen Horney postulated all of the following character patterns except

Of the following terms, which one term best fits this statement? "it is the person's presentation put forth to the world. It is structured from parental introjects, social role expectations, and peer expectations."

Jane lives on her own, but on her way home from work every day she stops off at the gym to work out for an hour and then stops off at her favourite café for a cup of green tea before going home. This routine is an example of which of Maslow's need levels? ________ needs

A discrepancy between the self-concept and the ideal self results in

Many victims of hurricane Katrina were left without their homes, food, and water--basic necessities for living.  Based on Maslow's hierarchy of needs, which motives were activated for these individuals?

Which of these is not a five factor (Costa and McCrae)

A trait is best described as

Allport calls the traits that organise and influence most of our behaviour

People who score high on the Psychoticism (P) scale are

At the broadest level, the two strategies for structured personality-test construction are ‘Deductive’ comprising ________ and ‘Empirical comprising _________? (

Which of the following is an accurate criticisms of projective tests of personality?

Which test employs figure drawings produced by the testtaker as the projective stimulus?

Which of the following is involved in a Thematic Apperception Test?

Which of the following is a subtype of Dramatic/Emotional Personality Disorders (Cluster B)

An individual with narcissistic personality disorder will routinely overestimate their abilities and inflate their accomplishments, and this is characterized by which of the following?

An Individual with Obsessive-Compulsive Personality Disorder will NOT exhibit which of the following characteristics?

People with _____ personality disorder seem to have no need for social relationships

Tom and Sally have been dating for two years. Sally breaks up with Tom because he cheated on her with Betty. Sally tells her friend Kelly about Tom, but she tells her without showing any emotion. Tom continues to call Sally and treat her as he did when they were going out. Betty, who did not know about Sally, tells Tom that she is glad that he feels guilty for hurting Sally. She also tells him that it will take a long time to get over the guilt. Sally is using ??? as a defense mechanism.

Judith is angry that her husband is going to be late home from work again and hadn’t called to let her know first. During dinner she snaps at her children for their poor table manners and sends them all to bed without pudding. According to Freud, which defence mechanism is she employing?

According to Freud, the       mind includes accessible memories, which can be recalled at will

Asif is a hoarder. He has kept every copy of the NME that he has ever bought and has these arranged in chronological order in files on his bookshelf and refuses to throw them away. According to Freud’s theory of psychosexual development, this behaviour represents which personality type?

The process that Freud referred to as identification, involving the realization that the sexes differ, is an important psychological milestone connected with what stage of development?

According to Freud, is the defence mechanism that involves reverting to immature behaviours that have relieved anxiety in the past

Which one of the following distinguishes Jungian analytical psychology from other approaches?

Which of the following Neo-Freudians proposed the ‘inferiority complex’ which refers to the situation in which the individual becomes fixated on what they perceive to be their flaws or inferiorities?

According to Adler, which of the following is NOT one of the primary goals of children’s misbehavior?

According to Jung, what is the term for the social mask that one wears in public dealings?

One of the most useful Jungian ideas is his classification of the four basic ways of thinking. ____ establishes what is actually present, ___ enables us to recognize its meaning, ___ tells us its value, and ___ points to possibilities as to whence it came and whither it is going in a given situation.

Karen Horney believed that neurotic needs develop in

It can be speculated that the deviation of Jung’s that most irritated Freud was:

If you feel that other people value you only if you are smart, successful, attractive, or good, according to Rogers, you will develop_______.

Rogers believed that each person has a natural tendency towards growth and...

A father only shows interest and love for his son when he engages in sports he himself enjoys (such as boxing) and not when his son engages in sports such as ballet dancing. According to Carl Rogers, as a result of this treatment. the son is likely to develop

The highest level of Maslow’s hierarchy of needs is:

According to Maslow, when does a need stop motivating?

In the story, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, the dwarfs names (sleepy, dopey, grumpy etc) represent which of Allport’s Traits?

In his theory of motivation, Maslow assumed that

Which of the following does NOT occur during the free association phase of the Rorschach inkblot test?