Approaches to Personality
This individual is the founder of the psychoanalytic/psychodynamic approach to personality?
What is Sigmund Freud?
These are the names of the four main approaches to personality.
What is the Psychodynamic, Social-Cognitive/Social learning, Humanistic, and Trait approach?
The MMPI is a self-report inventory that assesses personality characteristics and psychological disorders. The MMPI stands for...
What is Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory?
The multipath approach to psychological disorders includes these dimensions to explain mental disorders.
What is the biological, psychological, sociocultural, and social dimensions?
This is the manual for diagnosing and treating mental disorders.
What is the DSM-5?
The humanistic approach argues that humans are striving towards...
What is self-actualization?
This is Freud's term for what is stored in memory that one is not presently aware of but can access.
What is the preconcious mind?
This test assumes the test taker's responses of inkblots are projections of their personal conflicts and personality dynamics.
What is Rorschach Inkblots Test?
Bipolar disorder is characterized by experiencing episodes of incapacitating depression alternate with shorter periods of extreme euphoria. This periods of extreme euphoria are called...
What is mania/manic episodes?
This disorder can be treated with systematic desensitization.
What is Phobia Disorder?
Neo-Freudians continued to follow these two aspects of Freud's personality theory.
What is stressing the importance of early childhood and the unconscious?
This psychologist claimed the people are innately good, and they become evil due to cultural reasons.
Who is Carl Rogers?
The self report inventory that involves categorizing personality types is called...
What is Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI)?
To be officially diagnosed with anxiety disorder, an individual must exhibit symptoms for a minimum of this length of time.
What is 6 months?
Helen gets depressed during the fall and winter months, but her depressions subside during the spring and summer. Helen may be suffering from...
What is seasonal affective disorder (SAD)
The social-cognitive approach states that these three factors explains an individuals behaciors.
Cognitive, social, and environmental factors
*Bonus: The interaction of these factors is called what?
Noel is usually quiet and reserved when he is in his biochem class, but is talkative in his intro to psychology class. Noel's quietness during his biochem class is an example of ______ anxiety.
What is state anxiety?
Helen was tasked to come up with a story when shown an image of a women on a chair during her therapy appointment. This test is called...
What is the Thematic apperception test (TAT)?
Charlie has been diagnosed with OCD. He has been experiencing recurrent taboo thoughts. The thoughts that Charlie is experiencing are...
What is obsessions?
Classical conditioning causes the acquisition of phobias by...
What is pairing associations with an aversive stimulus?
These are the "Big 5" personality factors.
What is conscientiousness, agreeableness, neuroticism, openness, and extraversion?
This is Freud's term for what we are presently aware of.
What is the conscious mind?
These are the two main strengths of self-reported inventories.
What is they are standardized and show greater reliability and validity than projective tests?
A PET shows more activity in these two brain regions in depressed patients.
What is the amygdala and the prefrontal cortex?
These are the common negative symptoms of schizophrenia.
What is blunted affect (lack of emotional expression, no change in vocal tone), alogia (decreased quantity and/or quality of speech), and avolition (inability to follow through with plans, little interest in his/her usual activities)?