Personality Terminology
Part of Freud’s structural model that operates on the reality principle
What is the ego?
Attachment style characterized by mild distress when caregiver leaves a room, but returns to normal upon reunion.
What is a secure attachment?
This sense is the poorest at the time of birth.
What is vision?
The emotional bond between 2 people is called?
What is attachment?
This theory of personailty suggest that people possess consistent patterns of behaviors, emotions, and thoughts.
What is trait theory?
Eric has not resolved a conflict in one of Freud’s psychosexual stages. He’s now in a state of:
What is fixation?
Developmental psychologist who had a stage theory of cognitive development
Who is Jean Piaget?
A girl's first menstruation.
What is menarche?
_______ parents produce the most well-rounded/competent children.
What is authoritative?
In order, list Maslow's Hierarcy of Needs from bottom to top.
Physiological, Safety, Belonging and love, Esteem needs, and Self-Actualization.
Jamie is very cooperative, kind-hearted, and trustworthy. She would score high on this dimension of the Big 5.
What is Agreeableness?
Baby Jane is looking at a doll. When her mom puts the doll under a blanket, Jane thinks the doll is no longer there. Jane lacks:
What is object permanence?
Name Piaget's 4 stages of cognitive development?
What is sensorimotor, preoperational, concrete operational, and formal operational?
The Strange Situation procedure was conducted by who?
Who is Mary Ainsworth?
According to biological theories of personality, what percentage of your personality is due to genetics?
What is 40-50%?
Roger is very upset, so he is acting very friendly and happy towards everyone in order to deny the reality of his feelings.
What is reaction formation?
Joann is an adolescent and believes that no one has had a worse time in middle school than she has.
What is personal fable?
Around age 7, children start to understand that physical characteristics remain unchanged. This concept is called?
What is conservation?
Most college students fit into 2 stages of Kohlberg's theory. Name the 2 stages.
What are Stages 4 and 5?
Carl Rogers and Abraham Maslow belong to what type of personality theory?
What is Humanistic?
Carl Rogers says your parents need to give you this in order for you to avoid incongruence and become a fully actualized human being.
What is unconditional positive regard?
This stage of prenatal development is when organogenesis occurs?
What is the embryonic stage?
Object permanence typically is complete by what age?
What is 12 months?
This stage of Erikson's theory suggests that teens are deciding who and what they want to be. Name the specific stage.
What is Identity vs. Role Confusion?
Neo-Freudians, followers of Freud, use this approach to studying and understanding personality.
What is the psychodynamic approach?