Psychoanalysis
Clarise, who does not like Sydney, tells everyone, "I don't think Sydney likes me." This defense mechanism might be at work.
What is projection?
In trait theory, aspects of our personality remain relatively ____ throughout our adult lives.
What is stable or unchanging?
If I wanted to assess a person's future potential to solve problems, I would give them this type of test.
What is an aptitude test?
If an intelligence test administered to a population yields results that create a normal curve, we can say this about the test.
What is standardized?
A person who believes external forces are responsible for what happens to them is said to have this.
What is an external locus of control.
These are Freud's three interacting systems or structures that make up personality.
What are the id, ego, and superego?
Humanist Carl Rogers used this term to describe the attitude of acceptance we show to another person.
What is unconditional positive regard?
The type of intelligence that grows late into life; it makes use of knowledge, experiences, and judgement.
What is crystalized intelligence?
Someone who is intellectually disabled will typically score below this number on an intelligence test.
What is 70?
Today, which is the preferred IQ test for adults?
What is the Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale?
In this defense mechanism, a person expresses the opposite of how they actually feel.
What is reaction formation?
These three are among the most popular personality inventories that use trait theory.
What are Myers-Briggs, Big Five, or Minnesota Multiphasic (MMPI).
Besides linguistic and logical-mathematical, Gardner believed in 6 other types of intelligence. Name two.
What are spatial, musical, body-kinesthetic, interpersonal, intrapersonal, and naturalist.
A person with perfectly average intelligence will get this score on the normal curve.
What is 100.
This is the named effect we use to describe society's ongoing improvement on IQ tests.
What is the Flynn Effect?
Freud might have said that a fixation in this stage of psycho-sexual development may explain why a person smokes.
What is oral?
This theory of personality is concerned with the interaction among our behavior, our environment, and our personal factors.
What is social-cognitive theory?
This was the reason Binet developed his IQ test.
To help school children achieve their potential in school.
If a test gives consistent results each time it is used we can say the test has good __________.
What is reliability?
This onetime disciple of Freud believed people could access a collective unconscious.
Who was Carl Jung?
Modern day psycho-analysts might use these types of tests, such as Rorschach, TAT, or inkblot tests to probe your unconscious.
What are projective tests?
Psychologists such as Eysenck used this technique to statistically correlate aspects of personality together in groups.
What is factor analysis.
These are the three types of intelligence, according to Sternberg's Triarchic Theory?
What are analytical, creative, and practical?
An intelligence test that does a good job describing a person's intelligence is said to have this type of validity?
What is content validity?
The high correlation of IQ scores between these types of people is evidence that intelligence level has a strong genetic explanation.
Who are identical twins?