Because of Freud
Getting Defensive
Assessment
Me and We
100
This operates on the pleasure principle, demanding immediate gratification.
What is the id?
100
Freud argued this part of the personality uses defense mechanisms to distort an urge.
What is the ego?
100
This is the most widely researched and clinically used of all the personality tests.
What is the MMPI?
100
The perception that chance or outside forces beyond your personal control determine your fate.
What is external locus of control?
200
According to Freud, this personality structure comprises the top of the "iceberg", and these comprise the bottom.
What are ego and id/superego?
200
Displacement is the redirecting of one's thoughts feelings and impulses and out upon another person or object.
What is displacement?
200
Type of projective test with an ambigous photo used to prompt storytelling
Thematic Apperception Test
200
The perception that you control your own fate.
What is internal locus of control?
300
Process by which, according to Freud, children incorporate their parents' values into their own developing superegos.
What is identification?
300
Transforming unacceptable impulses or behaviors into acceptable ones.
What is sublimation?
300
This specific test.
What is the Rorshach ink blot test?
300
The two biggest researchers associated with humanistic theory.
Who are Abraham Maslow and Carl Rogers?
400
This operates on the reality principle, satisfying the id's desires in ways that will realistically bring pleasure rather than pain.
What is ego?
400
Psychoanalytic defense mechanism that offers self justifying explanations in place of the real, more threatening, unconscious reasons for one's actions.
What is rationalization?
400
In psychoanalysis, a method of expoloring the unconscious in which the person relaxes and says whatever comes to mind.
What is free association?
400
The needs of the group take precedence
What is collectivistic culture?
500
According to Freud, a reservoir of mostly unacceptable thoughts, wishes, feelings and memories.
What is unconscious?
500
This can involve the rejection of reality, or the rejection of responsibility for that reality.
What is denial?
500
This personality test was derived by changing Jung's theory of personality types, but is not grounded in any empirical science.
What is the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI)?
500
According to Maslow, this is one of the ultimate psychological needs. It arises after basic physical and psychological needs are met and self esteem is achieved.
What is self actualization?
600
This represents internalized ideals and provides standards for judgment.
What is the superego?
600
The converting of unwanted or dangerous thoughts, feelings or impulses into their opposites. You act the opposite of how you feel
What is reaction formation?
600
The Big 5 Traits
What are: Openness, Conscientiousness, Extraversion, Agreeableness, & Neuroticism
600
All of our thoughts and feelings about ourselves, in answer to the question, "Who am I?"
What is self concept?
700
This research method is the only one that can be used with Freud's psychoanalytic theory.
What is a case study?
700
An attempt to protect one’s feelings or self-esteem by attributing those impulses and feelings to others.
What is projection?
700
Used in trait perspective, this statistical technique identifies clusters of correlated items.
What is factor analysis?
700
According to Carl Rogers, a child who believes they must earn high grades in order for their parents to love them is lacking the feeling of this.
What is unconditional positive regard?
800
During the phallic stage, Freud argues this crisis occurs. This leads to castration anxiety as boys fear their fathers, which in turn leads the defense mechanism of identification to eventually resolve this crisis.
What is the Oedipus complex?
800
The unconscious blocking of unacceptable thoughts, feelings and impulses.
What is repression?
800
This is the only personality theory, other than a purely biological approach, that allows for ethical experimentation.
What is social-cognitive?
800
This research method is used in humanistic theories of personality.
What is case study?