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Chapter 10-12 Fill-in-the blank Questions
Exam 4 Blank Questions
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Psychology
Undergraduate 1
05/04/2015

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Term
_____ is an enduring pattern of emotional, cognitive, and behavioral ways of responding to the environment.
Definition
Personality
Term
Freud believed that psychological problems were ____; in other words, they were caused by multiple unconscious processes.
Definition
Overdetermined
Term
Freud considered the ____ to be the psyche's conscience.
Definition
Superego
Term
When a person is unable to successfully navigate the challenges of a specific stage of psychosexual development, thereby not progressing to the next stage, that person is ___.
Definition
Fixated
Term
The ____ is a personality assessment that involves presenting people with pictures and asking them to tell a story about what is happening in the picture.
Definition
Thematic Apperception Test
Term
____ is the belief that one is capable of producing a desired outcome.
Definition
Self-efficacy
Term
____ is a person's assessment of his or her own level of happiness.
Definition
Well-being
Term
_____ is a defense mechanism in which feelings are redirected from one target to another, more acceptable target.
Definition
Displacement
Term
____ is the field of study that seeks to determine whether personality and behavior have a hereditary basis.
Definition
Behavioral genetics
Term
According to Hans Eysenck, the trait of extraversion is related to acitvity in the ____.
Definition
Reticular activating system (RAS)
Term
Personality tests that ask people to describe their own traits are known as ____.
Definition
Self-report tests.
Term
Freud believed that little boys experience a(n) _____, a desire to get rid of their fathers so that they can have sex with their mothers.
Definition
Oedipus complex.
Term
A generalization about a group that does not take into account differences among member sof that group is called a(n) ____.
Definition
Stereotype
Term
Feeling the same way as another, or putting yourself in someone else's shoes, is called ____.
Definition
Empathy
Term
The belief that one's own ethnic group is better than other groups is known as ____.
Definition
Ethnocentricism
Term
A person who is told by an experimenter to act a certain way in order to see how study participants will react to him or her is a(n) ____.
Definition
Confederate
Term
Confirming because of a desire to be liked or fit in is called ____.
Definition
Normative social influence
Term
_____ is a process that happens in groups when bad decisions are made with no room for dissention.
Definition
Groupthink
Term
Love based on strong, caring feelings and a desire to be near one's partner is known as ____.
Definition
Romantic, or affectionate
Term
____ is the feelings of understanding and identifying with another person's feelings.
Definition
Empathy
Term
When a person openly holds racist attitudes, this type of racism is called ____ racism.
Definition
Explict, or overt
Term
When emotions or attitudes spread through members of a group due to observational learning, this is called ____.
Definition
Social contagion
Term
Helping another person in order to appear generous, or to ensure reciprocity, is called ____.
Definition
Egoism
Term
A common symptom of schizophrenia, _____, occurs when people believe that random events have personal significance.
Definition
Referential thinking
Term
Troublesome thoughts that cause a person to engage in ritualistic behaviors are called ____.
Definition
Obsessions
Term
____ may develop when a person is repeatedly exposed to negative events over which he/she has no control.
Definition
Learned helplessness
Term
Constantly focusing on negative thoughts, but doing nothing to change those thoughts is consistent with a ____ coping style.
Definition
Ruminative
Term
One possible symptom of schizophrenia is ____, an extended period of immobility.
Definition
Catatonia
Term
____ is a mood disorder that is similar to major depressive disorder, but not quite as severe.
Definition
Dysthymia, or Dysthymic disorder
Term
People who periodically consume very large quantities of food, but who do not purge afterward suffere from ____.
Definition
Binge eating disorder
Term
The disorder commonly called "multiple personality disorder" is properly called ____.
Definition
Dissociative identity disorder
Term
The disorder characterized by repeated violation of others' rights and lack of remorse is ____.
Definition
Antisocial personality disorder
Term
_____ is a disorder characterized by an intense fear of a particular situation or object.
Definition
Phobia, or phobic disorder
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