Chapter 13: Self and Personality
One of the major drawbacks of self-report personality inventories is that they are dependent on the honesty and insight of the respondent. T/F
True
One symptom of panic attacks is chest pain lasting for hours. T/F
False
Benzodiazepines are most commonly used to treat what type of disorder?
Anxiety disorders
A key concept to ________’s theory of personality is unconscious conflict.
Freud
Borderline personality disorder is primarily associated with a history of trauma. T/F
True
_________ ___________ are unconscious mental strategies that the mind uses to protect itself from distress.
Defense mechanisms
An individual with this disorder is likely to experience feelings of increasing nervousness in the absence of threat.
Anxiety disorder
Which of the following therapists suggest that psychological disorders stem from faulty or distorted modes of thought?
Cognitive therapists
Which personality theorist contends that personality is determined to a large extent by a person’s genes?
Hans Eysenck
______________ theories of personality assume that man is basically good and desires to improve.
Humanistic
This approach to personality involves being described by our characteristics.
Trait approach
_________ are uncontrollable, anxiety-producing thoughts.
Obsessions
This type of therapy is the most successful treatment for individuals with borderline personality disorder.
Dialectical behavioral therapy (DBT)
This psychologist hypothesized that a psychological factor associated with depression is how people think of themselves. Specifically, depressed people think negatively about themselves and situations in their lives.
Aaron Beck
In this type of personality test, the individual is required to tell stories about a series of pictures.
Thematic Apperception Test
Based on the psychodynamic theory, this term describes the component of personality that tries to satisfy the wishes of the id and the superego.
Ego
______ are ritualistic behaviors designed to reduce anxiety.
Compulsions
____________ is a treatment for psychological disorders where a therapist works with clients to help them understand their problems and work toward solutions.
Psychotherapy
What theorist suggested clients should be given “unconditional positive regard” – meaning we should judge the behaviors not the person engaging in them.
Carl Rogers
According to the diathesis-stress model, mental disorders are caused by both ________ and stress.
A predisposition to mental illness
This theory of learning involves the acquisition or modification of a behavior after exposure to at least one performance of the behavior.
Observational learning theory
The rarest and most extreme form of dissociative amnesia is __________ __________ (two words). The disorder involves a loss of identity. This form of dissociative amnesia also involves traveling to another location, and sometimes assuming a new identity.
Dissociative fugue
______________ is a treatment for psychological disorders where a therapist incorporates techniques from cognitive therapy and behavior therapy to correct faulty thinking and maladaptive behaviors.
Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT)
According to this theorist, a child who has not yet achieved object permanence acts as though things that have gone out of sight have ceased to exist.
Jean Piaget
______________ is a treatment for individuals with psychological disorders that uses a magnetic field to interrupt function in specific regions of the brain.
Transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS)