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Quiz 9
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Psychology
Undergraduate 1
05/06/2008

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Carl Rogers suggested that the ________ is a central feature of personality.
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self-concept
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[image]Sexually active undergraduate women perceive themselves as less likely than other women at their university to experience an unwanted pregnancy. This best illustrates
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unrealistic optimism
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According to Freud, the personality system that represents our sense of right and wrong and our ideal standards is the
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Superego
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According to psychoanalytic theory, the part of the personality that strives for immediate gratification of basic drives is the:
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Id
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Characteristic patterns of behavior and motivation are called:
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Traits
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Personality inventories typically gather information by means of:
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self-reports
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Dr. Zytowics wants to assess the extent to which a client is suffering from depression, delusions, and other symptoms of psychological disorder. Which personality inventory would be most helpful for this purpose?
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MMPI
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Coretta is quiet, pessimistic, anxious, and moody. In terms of the Eysencks' basic personality dimensions she would be classified as:
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unstable-introverted
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[image]Forgotten memories that we can easily recall were said by Freud to be:
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preconscious.
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According to Bandura, reciprocal determinism involves multidirectional influences among
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behaviors, internal personal factors, and environmental events
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The tendency to accept favorable descriptions of one's personality that could really be applied to almost anyone is known as:
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the Barnum effect
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The tendency to accept more personal responsibility for one's successes than for one's failures best illustrates:
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self-serving bias
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Abraham Maslow studied the lives of Abraham Lincoln and Eleanor Roosevelt in order to understand the nature of
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self-actualization
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The use of free association is central to the process of:
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psychoanalysis.
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Dorothy believes that she will be highly successful in business if she works hard and carefully manages her time. Her belief most clearly illustrates:
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an internal locus of control.
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Four-year-old Timmy has not wet his bed for over a year. However, he starts bed-wetting again soon after his sister is born. Timmy's behavior best illustrates
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regression
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Individualism is most likely to be emphasized in:
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North America
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[image]Dogs strapped into a harness and given repeated and unavoidable shocks developed:
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learned helplessness
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According to Freud, the unconscious is:
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the thoughts, wishes, feelings, and memories of which we are largely unaware.
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[image]Freud observed that certain symptoms of illness were relieved when patients talked freely about their past. This led Freud to suspect that these symptoms resulted from:
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unconscious impulses
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Henry Murray found that children's perceptions of photographs were biased by their previous participation in a frightening game. Their perceptual reactions most clearly highlighted the potential value of:
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projective tests.
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[image]According to psychoanalytic theory, boys' fear of castration is most closely associated with:

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the Oedipus complex
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