Personality (PPP2014) questions: 4

Freud believed that two motives are fundamental to personality: The first is often called ___________, which impels toward life; the other is called ____________ and impels toward death

Tom and Sally have been dating for two years. Sally breaks up with Tom because he cheated on her with Betty. Sally tells her friend Kelly about Tom, but she tells her without showing any emotion. Tom continues to call Sally and treat her as he did when they were going out. Betty, who did not know about Sally, tells Tom that she is glad that he feels guilty for hurting Sally. She also tells him that it will take a long time to get over the guilt. Tom is using ___________ as a defense mechanism.

What name did Freud give to his model of the mind which consisted of Id, Ego and Superego?

Which aspect of the family did Adler believe may play a significant role in personality development?

According to Adler’s birth order theory, second-born children in the family are likely to be

Karen Horney called parental mistreatment ___, as she believed that parental behavior that does not meet the child’s fundamental need for safety was highly damaging

The purpose of                                   is to help individuals meet the fundamental desire for continued personal growth and self-enhancement

According to Maslow, some needs grow stronger when unsatisfied. Maslow called these

What is Rorschach’s test designed to measure?

The MMPI measures which of the following?

Katie Price is on her third marriage in her quest to find ideal love. When Katie Price demonstrates patterns of attention seeking and the excessive need for admiration from others, a Psychologist could be forgiven for thinking she may be suffering from

In the film ‘Girl Interrupted’, Winona Rider plays Susanna Keysen who is admitted to a Psychiatric hospital after a nervous breakdown. The assumption that she tried to commit suicide via an overdose, together with her significant distress when her friend Lisa Rowe (played by Angelina Jolie) leaves the hospital could be taken as signs of which personality disorder?

Which of the following helps define the term personality?

According to Eysenck

Cattell's method of gathering data in the absence of any pre-existing hypothesis is called the

The theories of Cattell and Eysenck rate

The earth mother, the hero, the devil, and the supreme being are all examples of

Compared with Freud, Adler

A client, who is a painter and decorator, undergoes Freudian analysis wherein he describes the content of his dreams. He reveals that in his recent dreams he cannot reach the top of the ladder and has to keep climbing. The therapist interprets this as a dream about sexual intercourse. According to Freud, which of the following would be correct?

Which psychosexual stage of development did Freud view as different from the others because an individual does not simply experience it but must achieve it?

One advantage of the projective personality test is that they

Which of the following are not symptoms of borderline personality disorder?

Self-respect, autonomy and achievement are all examples of

Rogers believed that all behaviour relates to one’s

Rogers stated that humans need to be loved / liked. He referred to the emotional experience required for optimum development as

In Eysenck’s hierarchical model of personality which of the following is true?

The apparent lack of empathy and the tendency to exploit others for self-benefit, has lead psychologists to compare narcissistic personality disorder with which one of the following?

Which of the following is NOT a weakness of many projective personality tests?

Psychic determinism can be defined as

According to Freudian psychologists, playing rugby is an example of the most advanced and mature defence mechanism. What is it?

Karen Horney disagreed with what fundamental part of Freud’s theory?

Many neo-Freudians gave which part of the psyche a greater role in personality development than Freud did?

Psychologists increasingly agree that supertraits may adequately describe the structure of personality

Which of the following statements characterises a “trait”? - A trait is a psychological feature that .......... humans have in common, albeit in different ........... .and for which individual differences are stable across .......... but not necessarily across different .................

According to Adler, ___ is the “sole criterion of human values”

Which factor did Horney place less emphasis on in her approach?

What is a testing professional doing if they administer the same test to every test taker but score the test differently according to the race of the test taker?

The most widely used and extensively researched objective personality test is the

Which cluster of Axis II of the DSM do 'dramatic, emotional or erratic' disorders belong in?

In the movie ‘Silence of the Lambs’, Anthony Hopkins’ character demonstrates a superficial charm, a lack of guilt and an indifference to the suffering of others. These are hallmark characteristics of which personality disorder?

An Individual with Dependent Personality Disorder will NOT exhibit which of the following?

Dr Huws asks Kyle to complete a depression inventory, answering questions about how sad he has felt in recent weeks. She then asks him to look at a few pictures and to tell a story about what the characters may be thinking and doing. (The picture is otherwise ambiguous.) The depression inventory is an example of a _____, and the tell-a-story task is an example of a _____.

Talkative vs quiet; frank or open vs secretive; adventurous vs cautious; sociable vs reclusive - these traits describe which dimension personality?

Which of the following is not considered to be a risk factor for personality disorders

Carl Rogers finally developed

In clinical practice, a TAT examiner administers