Personality Theory
The enduring and distinctive thoughts, emotions, and behaviors that are characteristic of an individual.
What is personality?
This test consists of a child drawing pictures of a house, a tree, and a figure of a person.
What is the house, tree, person test?
The three main processes involved in development.
What are biological, cognitive, and socio-emotional?
This theoretical viewpoint in abnormal psychology sees psychological disorders as stemming from brain disorders that involve imbalances in neurotransmitters.
What is biological?
James was driving in his car the other day and started to feel his heart begin to race. Within a minute or two, he began sweating, shaking, and felt like something terrible was going to happen. He now refuses to drive his car for fear he will experience this again.
What is a panic disorder?
What Freud used as a metaphor for human consciousness.
What is an iceberg?
The most commonly used diagnostic paper and pencil personality test that requires the client to respond either true or false to a series of statements.
What is the MMPI?
The individual who developed the theory of cognitive development.
Who is Piaget?
Hearing, seeing, smelling, or tasting things that are not there.
What is a hallucination?
An example of this disorder is described in the following: Sally refuses to leave her house and reports that if she is not in her own home, she begins to have "tremendous fears."
What is an anxiety disorder?
The place where primitive and instinctual motives, as well as memories and emotions that are so threatening to the conscious mind that they have been repressed, have been stored.
What is the id?
This test has not been formally validated by research, but is still commonly used in career counseling settings.
What is the Myers-Briggs Assessment?
The first stage of Erikson's theory of psychosocial development.
What is trust vs. mistrust?
An irrational belief that is held despite obvious evidence to the contrary.
What is a delusion?
This disorder is described by the following: Mr. Dodge engages in very rigid and structured behavior. He is preoccupied with cleanliness. He washes his hands more than twenty times per day.
What is obsessive- compulsive disorder?
The major responsibility of this part of the human consciousness is to find a compromise in order to fulfill all the desires of the id.
What is the ego?
This test has black and white sketches of people in various situations and patients are asked to make up a related story.
What is the Thematic Apperception Test?
Any nongenetic agent that causes a birth defect.
What is a teratogen?
An inability to tell the difference between what is real versus what is not real. A loss of contact with reality.
What is psychosis?
This disorder is characterized by a sad or melancholic demeanor, self-derogatory behavior, demoralization, and lack of joy in previously enjoyable activities.
What is major depressive disorder?
Someone who does not receive much encouragement growing up and therefore never develops a strong drive for achievement has probably developed this.
What is an inferiority complex?
Consists of ten cards of inkblots that are shown to clients who are asked to think of what they see when looking at them.
What is the Rorschach Test?
Occurs when assistance is given to someone who needs it, but is then gradually tapered off as they perform the task on their own
What is scaffolding?
Chronic, maladaptive cognitive-behavioral patterns that are thoroughly integrated into the individual’s personality.
What is a personality disorder?
This disorder is characterized by periods of deep depression followed by periods in which she is euphoric (wildly optimistic, impulsive, and upbeat) and engages in risky behaviors.
What is bipolar disorder?