PSY 101, Introduction to Psychology
Study Guide, Test #3
Personality, Psychological Disorders, Therapy
Dr. Elizabeth Jacobs
Chapter 10, Personality
Define personality.
How similar are the personality of twins?
Be able to distinguish between trait, type, and psychoanalytic (aka psychodynamic) approaches to
personality theory.
Distinguish between cardinal, central, and secondary traits and between surface and course traits.
What are the “Big Five?”
What factors determine our personalities?
Be familiar with the specific features of Freud’s theory including, but not limited to, the id, ego, and
superego, and their functions
Also be familiar with Freud’s theory of psychosexual stages of development and what events occur in
each and the consequences of fixation at each stage.
Define Eros and Thanatos.
Be able to identify both projective tests (inkblot and TAT) and trait tests (e.g., MMPI)
Chapter 12, Psychological Disorders
Define: Anxiety, insanity, obsession, post-traumatic stress disorder.
Be able to distinguish between the symptoms of mood, personality, somatoform, dissociative, and
anxiety disorders (especially phobias and panic disorder.)
Know how situational context, cultural relativity, and social nonconformity contribute to the
determination of an abnormal behavior.
Distinguish between behavioral and cognitive therapists.
What are the two core features that are indicative of a person requiring psychological help?
What is the DSM-IV-TR and what is it used for?
Be familiar with the characteristics and symptoms of paranoid schizophrenia and seasonal affective
disorder.
What are the three major classifications of “mood disorders?”
Be familiar with David Rosenhan’s “schizophrenia” experiment.
Chapter 13, Therapy
Define: Psychotherapy, trepanning, hysteria, unconditional positive regard, aversion therapy.
Be familiar with the methods used in psychotherapy.
Distinguish between: individual and group therapy; directive and nondirective therapy.
Who was Philippe Pinal and what was his contribution to psychotherapy?
What are free association and dream analysis and what purpose do they serve in psychotherapy?
Distinguish between the manifest and latent contents of a dream.
Know the principal assumptions of the major psychotherapies: psychodynamic, humanist, behaviorist,
cognitive, and biological.
What is client-centered therapy and who was its founder?
What is “media psychology” and how should they “counsel” according to the APA?
Be familiar with the fundamentals of behavior modification, especially positive reinforcement,
punishment, shaping, aversion therapy, systematic desensitization and when these therapies are most
appropriate.
What is the “therapy placebo” effect?
Be familiar with the use and methods of somatic therapies.
What is ECT and what is it used for?
What effect has deinstitutionalization had on former mental patients?
What is an organic mental disorder?