Emotion and Motivation
Studying hard for an exam to get good grades and a scholarship is an example of:
Extrinsic motivation
Intelligence tests were originally developed to:
Help underprivileged children succeed in school
What projective personality test involves showing test takers a card and asking “What might this be?”
Rorschach Inkblot Test
_____ refers to the cognitive and behavioral strategies people use to influence their own emotional experience.
Emotion regulation
Raven's Progressive Matrices Test can be used to assess _____ intelligence.
Fluid
In Freud’s conceptualization of the mind the _____ operates according to the pleasure principle while the _____ operates according to the reality principle.
id and ego
People with more _____ have better romantic relationships, are happier, and are more satisfied with their lives.
Emotional intelligence
Emotions can be distinguished based on their _____, which is how positive or negative the experience is, and their _____, which is how active or passive the experience is.
valence and arousal
According to Cattell, _____ intelligence is the ability to apply knowledge and understanding that one has gained through experience.
Crystallized
Early research into the _____ approach to personality attempted to identify main themes in the adjectives used to describe a person's personality.
Trait
The technique MOST widely used by psychologists to collect information about someone's personality structure is:
Self Report
Which set of facial expressions are, for the most part, universal? Hint:5
anger, disgust, happiness, sadness, fear
A statistic obtained by dividing an adult's test score by the average adult's test score and then multiplying the quotient by 100 is
The deviation IQ
According to Freud’s concept of defense mechanisms, _____ involves unconsciously replacing threatening inner wishes and fantasies with an exaggerated version of their opposites.
reaction formation
The psychologist _____ argued that persons who scored low on the intelligence test he developed should not be allowed to procreate.
Henry Goddard
The quote, “Bodily changes follow directly the perception of the exciting fact. . .” is representative of what theory of emotion?
James–Lange theory
To find out if intelligence is a single general ability, Charles Spearman measured how well school-age children could discriminate small differences in color, auditory pitch, and weight. He correlated these scores with the children's:
Academic performance
According to the humanistic approach, a major factor in personality is _____.
The self-actualizing tendency
Which commonly used personality test is a well-researched clinical questionnaire designed to assess personality and psychological problems?
Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI)