Spring 2010 : Study guide for “Personality”
Define personality.
What is psychoanalysis?
Describe and identify the functions of the id, ego, and superego. What is the pleasure principle? The reality principle?
What is the process of identification?
Why does Freud believe that experiences in infancy and childhood are so important?
What is free association?
What is fixation?
What are ego defense mechanisms? Identify and explain reaction formation, projection, regression,
In what ways do the Neo Freudians disagree with Freud?
Which Freudian ideas are most consistent with contemporary psychological research findings?
What is the perspective of humanistic personality theory?
What is self-actualization? Self transcendence?
According to Carl Rogers, how do people nurture our growth? How can we help nurture growth within ourselves and
help others?
What is a fully functioning person? incongruence?
Which personality theories are based on experimental research?
Which perspective clearly emphasizes the interactive influences of traits and situations on person’s behavior?
What is reciprocal determinism?
Contrast internal –external locus of control and recognize examples.
What is “Positive Psychology”?
What are personality traits? Temperament?
What is meant by “empirically derived” personality inventory?
Want are the “Big Five” dimensions underlying personality? Be able to recognize examples of each.
What is the Barnum effect?
What is factor analysis and how is it used in the study of personality?