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Self report inventory that assesses personality characteristics in populations


What is CPI

100

The theory that emotional feelings result when an individual becomes aware of the physiological response to an emotion-provoking stimulus

What is James-Lange Theory of Emotions

100

Form the core of someone's personality- large influence

What is central trait

100

First woman trained as Freudian psychologist

What is Karen Horney

100

The face you present to society

What is persona?

200

A self report inventory developed by Ramon Catell that generates a personality profile with ratings on 16 trait dimensions.

What is 16PF

200

States that stimulating events trigger feelings and physical reactions that occur at the same time

What is Cannon-Bard Theory Of Emotion

200

All the processes that initiate, direct, and sustain behavior

What is motivation

200

Personal Unconsciousness is ___'s ID

What is Freud
200

Personality test using JUNG's concepts, often used to help identify career paths

What is MBTI

300

A self report inventory that assesses personality characteristics and psychological disorders. Used to assess both normal and distributed populations

What isb MMPI

300

Openness, Conscientiousness, Extraversion, Agreeableness, Neuroticism 

What is Big 5 Factor Theory

300

Regulates thoughts and behavior, and is most in touch with the demands of the external world

What is Ego

300

Named the inferiority and superiority complexes

What is Adler

300

Type of psychology where psychologist asks about hobbies they do

What is Therapeutic technique

400

A project personality test that involves creating stories about each of a series of ambiguous scenes

What is TAT

400

A theory of motivation suggesting that biological needs create internal states of tension or arousal (called drives) which organisms are motivated to reduce

What is Drive-Reduction Theory?

400

An external stimulus that motivates behavior

What is incentive?
400

Responsible for the 16PF test

What is Cattell

400

Where one feels inferior in one category, but goes to extreme in another

What is Compensation

500

The completely unconscious, irrational component of personality that seeks immediate satisfaction of instinctual urge and drives

What is ID

500

A two-factor theory stating that for an emotion to occur, there must be (1) physiological arousal and (2) a cognitive interpretation or explanation of the arousal, allowing it to be labeled as a specific emotion

What is Schachter Theory of Emotion

500

The part of the hypothalamus that acts as a feeding center to incite eating

What is lateral hypothalamus

500

Named the Reciprocal Determinism and Self Efficiency

What is Bandura

500

The death instinct, reflected in aggressive, destructive, and self destructive actions

What is Thanatos