Trait Theories
Psychodynamic Theory
Humanistic/Social Cognitive
Defense Mechanisms
Personality Testing
100
The theory associated with the traits openness, agreeableness, conscientiousness, neuroticism, and extroversion.
What is The Big Five?
100
Father of Psychoanalysis
Who is Sigmund Freud?
100

The main researcher associated with the social-cognitive theory?

Who is Alfred Bandura?

100
The defense mechanism in which we pretend something did not happen.
What is denial?
100

Test used for personality in mental health settings and composes of about 567 questions?

What is MMPI?

200
The trait associated with negative thoughts and emotions.
What is neuroticism?
200
The childish part of your mind that has irrational impulses.
What is the id?
200
The researcher who created the hierarchy of needs?
What is Abraham Maslow?
200
The mechanism characterized by the phrase "It's not me, it's you."
What is projection?
200
The theory that there are eight different intellectual capabilities that people posses, including interpersonal, logical-mathematical, and kinesthetic intelligence.
What is Gardner's Theory of Multiple Intelligences?
300
The trait associated with the willingness to try new things.
What is openness?
300

The desire to kill your father to marry your mother.

What is the Oedipus Complex?

300
The idea that people need constant support and love.
What is unconditional positive regard?
300
The mechanism in which painful thoughts and emotions are pushed out of consciousness.
What is repression?
300
The test that gives you a four letter result with each letter corresponding to a unique personality trait. (ex: INTJ)
What is the Myers-Briggs test?
400
The trait associated with self discipline and controlling impulses.
What is conscientiousness?
400
The process of saying everything that comes to your mind to free up psychic energy.
What is Free Association?
400
When all of a human's needs have been met and they have reached the final stage at the top of the hierarchy of needs.
What is self-actualization?
400
The mechanism in which people act in the opposite way that they feel?
What is reaction formation?
400
A type of test that encourages test-takers to respond freely. Examples include the Rorschach Inkblot Test and the TAT.
What is a projective test?
500
The trait theorist who's theory involved cardinal traits, central traits, and secondary traits.
Who is Gordon Allport?
500
A psychosexual stage that results in smoking as a fixation.
What is the oral stage?
500
In humanism, the sense of being separate and distinct from others.
What is self-concept?
500
The mechanism in which we direct our uncomfortable thoughts to more appropriate outlets.
What is sublimation?
500

Assesses the big five factors/traits.

What is NEO-PI-R (Neuroticism, Extraversion, Openness Personality Inventory-Revised?

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