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The average heritability coefficient of many traits, based on twin studies is about __________ when using self-reports of personality.
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the only structure we are born with
What is the id?
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the ability to love and work
What is the criteria for one's mental health?
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Ty says to John, "The doctor must have gotten my lab results mixed up with someone else. I feel fine."
What is denial?
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What is the biggest reason why cloning one’s personality will never be feasible?
a. Meeting your clone would be too confusing to process.
b. Personality is the result of a complex interaction between one’s genes and environment.
c. The government has refused to fund any research on cloning.
d. Our understanding of the genetic basis of personality is far too limited to know which genes are related to specific personality traits.
b. Personality is the result of a complex interaction between one’s genes and environment.
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He believed that an individual's behavior is fundamentally dependent on situational cues.
Who was Walter Mischel?
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structure that thinks and problems solves
What is the ego?
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Can you name an archetype?
The innocent
The everyman
The hero
The rebel
The explorer
The creator/artist
The ruler
The magician/wizard
The lover
The caregiver
The jester
The sage
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Jerry who was experiencing extreme anger, took up kick-boxing
What is sublimation?
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fixation at this stage might lead one to become an exhibitionist
What is the phallic stage?
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If damaged this area of the brain would result in a flattening out of emotional responses
What is the amygdala?
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The technique that can be used to temporarily “knock out” regions of the brain without having to create lasting lesions
What is transcranial magnetic stimulation?
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What is TMS?
Transcranial magnetic stimulaton is used to create “virtual lesions” by temporarily turning off parts of the brain to see how psychological processes are affected
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In general, neo-Freudians
a. are strict followers of Freudian ideas.
b. represent the majority of psychologists working in universities today.
c. use the same research methods Freud advocated.
d. rarely practice psychoanalysis.
c. use the same research methods Freud advocated.
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During therapy, Bob feels the same hostility toward his therapist that he feels toward his father. What term describes Bob’s experience?
a. countertransference
b. regression
c. displacement
d. transference
d. transference
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All of the following describe neurotic needs, according to Horney, EXCEPT neurotic needs
a. involve a natural stage of adult development everyone must go through.
b. stem from childhood anxieties.
c. are often contradictory.
d. involve a desire for something unrealistic.
a. involve a natural stage of adult development everyone must go through.
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The person's case taught us that injuries to the brain can effect personality and behavior.
Who was Phineas Gage?
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What is a parapraxis?
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Roger is a heavy drinker but has managed to keep this behavior a secret from his friends. He is sure that most people actually drink as much as he does.
What is projection?
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Someone who fails to have an emotional response to a loved one.
Who is someone suffering with Capgras syndrome?
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The idea that feelings of self-esteem evolved to gauge social acceptance is known as the ________ theory.
a. sociometer
b. social self-acceptance
c. social self
d. self-esteem as survival
What is sociometer
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What is oxytocin?
Hormone which has a role in mother-child bonding, romantic attachment, and sexual response
•Decreases fearfulness
•Increases perceptions of trustworthiness and attractiveness in others
•Facilitates approach behaviors
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eugenics and cloning are part of what bigger area of study?
What is behavioral genetics?
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What is the animus?
a. a man’s idealized conception of women
b. a woman’s idealized conception of men
c. the idealized conception of a nonhuman animal
d. the idealized conception of humankind
b. a woman’s idealized conception of men
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the area of study which looks at how experience can affect a gene’s expression
What is epigenetics?