Personality Theories
This personality theory is based on the importance of motive on consciousness, and is associated with Freud.
What is psychoanalytic?
This defense mechanism makes people refuse to accept the reality of something that makes them anxious.
What is denial?
This is the key difference between objective and projective tests.
What is limited choices and specific answers vs. open ended questions and subjective answers?
This principle is related to the id.
What is the pleasure principle?
This theorist created Self Theory and studied positive regard.
What is Rogers?
This theorist focused on behaviorist personality theory.
What is Skinner?
This defense mechanism makes excuses for behaviors so that they seem less offensive.
What is rationalization?
This personality test is a projective test that uses ink blots.
What is the Rorschach test?
This principle is related to the superego.
What is the moral principle?
This theorist was humanistic and created self-actualization theory.
What is Maslow?
Name the purpose(s) of personality theories.
What is organize traits, explain differences, and/or improve lives?
This defense mechanism allows people to take their anger out on something or someone less powerful.
What is displacement?
This personality test is subjective and asks patients to describe pictures.
What is the TAT?
This principle is related to the ego.
What is the reality principle?
This theorist stated that personality develops through personal and learning experiences.
What is Watson?
A stable internal characteristic.
What is a trait?
This defense mechanism allows people to believe that others must have the same impulses that they do.
What is projection?
This personality test is objective and has 567 different questions.
What is the MMPI?
This part of the unconscious contains instinctive and biological urges.
What is the id?
This theorist had a positive view of human nature and believed in the collective unconscious.
What is Jung?
This term is associated with sociocultural personality theories.
What is the Pygmalion Effect?
This defense mechanism allows people to push painful thoughts into their unconscious.
What is repression?
This personality test is objective and looks at how people handle their daily lives.
What is the Myers-Briggs Test?
This part of the unconscious is related to morals.
What is the superego?
This theorist stated that the need to belong and the family circle forms personality.
What is Fromme?