Module 60 - Psychoanalytic and Psychodynamic Theories
An individual’s characteristic pattern of thinking, feeling, and acting.
Personality
This theory offers a special focus on the potential for healthy personal growth.
Humanistic
The way we explain negative and positive events is called.
attribution
The way we explain negative and positive events is called.
attribution
This type of person is more likely to give priority to group goals.
Someone from a collectivist culture
In psychoanalysis, this is a method of exploring the unconscious in which the person relaxes and says whatever comes to mind, no matter how trivial or embarrassing.
free association
Carl Rogers felt that we are our best selves when we feel accepted for who we are. What did he call this accepting attitude?
Unconditional Positive Regard
This term best describes questionnaires that cover a wide range of feelings and behaviors and are designed to assess several traits.
Personality inventories
This psychologist proposed the social-cognitive perspective, which emphasizes the interaction of our traits with our situations
Albert Bandura
Paola and Juliana went to a baseball game and were shown on the centerfield screen. Julianna was embarrassed because she had mustard on her face from her hot dog. In reality, no one in the crowd noticed the mustard. Juliana was overestimating how much attention people were paying to her due to what?
Spotlight Effect
Operates on the pleasure principle, demanding immediate gratification.
The Id "it"
Remember my horrible drawing of the crying baby
Which term is defined as all the thoughts and feelings we have in response to the question, "Who am I?"
Self-concept
The most widely used scientifically validated personality test is what?
MMPI-2
Who is considered the leading advocate of personality's social-cognitive approach?
Karen Horney
Define narcissism
Excessive self-love and self-absorption.
Elaine's friends know that she should never be trusted with a secret, as she will tell everyone almost immediately. Elanie, however, complains that her friends can't be trusted. Elaine is making use of the defense mechanism of?
projection
Critics of humanistic psychology have suggested that the theory fails to appreciate the reality of our human capacity for which of the following?
Evil
This method looks to find items on a test that differentiate between groups and choose those items for the test
Factor analysis test-development strategy
A student teacher is formally observed and evaluated in the classroom, this example of an assessment is likely to be used by which kind of personality psychologist?
Social-cognitive
Athletes who often privately credit their victories to their abilities, and their losses to bad breaks, lousy officiating, or the other team's exceptional performance, are exhibiting which psychological concept?
The self-serving bias
A psychoanalytic psychologist might use the TAT and Rorschach test to do what?
gain insight into a person's unconscious mind
According to Maslow, the striving for identity, meaning, and purpose is beyond the self.
Self-transcendence
A question on the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI) such as " I get angry sometimes" is included to determine what about the test-taker?
If the person is answering the questions truthfully
The interacting influences of behavior, internal cognition, and environment
Reciprocal determinism
Imagine that someone ripped away your social connections, making you a solitary refugee in a foreign land. How much of your identity would remain intact if you were a collectivist?
If you are a collectivist, you may experience a significant amount of loss of identity.