Psych Test 3 Review
Personality and Social
• Eysenck might describe a person
who enjoys activities such as
parties and hang-gliding as high on
what trait?
Extroversion
• According to Freud, this operates
according to the “reality
principle”; maximizing awards,
minimizing pain, and maintaining
the individual's safety while
integrating the person into society.
EGO.
• Tests such as the MMPI-2, in which a small
sample of behavior is assessed to determine
larger patterns, are examples of
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Cross-sectional tests
Projective tests
Achievement tests
Self-report tests
• Bandura would rate a person who
would make the statement, “I
know I can't do it” as low on
____________________ .
Self-efficacy
• Which of the following represents the proper
order of personality development, according
to Freud?
• Oral, phallic, anal, latency, genital
• Anal, oral, phallic, genital, latency
-> • Oral, anal, phallic, latency, genital
• Latency, phallic, anal, genital, oral
• Determines right from wrong on the
basis of cultural standards.
SUPER-EGO
• A person shown a picture and asked to
make up a story about it would be
taking a _______________ personality
test.
Projective
• ______________ is the term Freud used
to describe unconscious strategies used
to reduce anxiety by distorting reality
and concealing the source of the
anxiety from themselves.
Defense Mechanisms
• Who pioneered the study of
conformity?
• Skinner
->• Asch
• Milgram
• The MAN
• Cognitive dissonance theory suggests
that we commonly change our behavior
to keep it consistent with our attitudes.
True or false?
FALSE.
• Nicholas Cage was happy to lend his
textbook to a fellow student who seemed
bright and friendly. He was surprised
when his classmate did not return it. His
assumption that the bright and friendly
student would also be responsible reflects
the ______________.
Halo Effect
• The process by which individuals evaluate
their thoughts, feelings, behaviors, and
abilities in relation to other people is
called Social __________________.
Comparison
• Which of the following techniques asks a
person to comply with a small initial request
to enhance the likelihood that the person will
later comply with a larger request?
• Door-in-the-face
-> • Foot-in-the-door
• That's-not-all
• Not-so-free sample
• ____________ is a change in
behavior that is due to another
person's orders.
Obedience
• The negative (or positive) evaluation of a
group and its members is called
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Stereotyping
Prejudice
Self-fulfilling prophecy
Discrimination
• Paul is a store manager who does not expect
women to succeed in business. He therefore
offers important, high-profile responsibilities
only to men. If the female employees fail to
move up in the company, it could be an
example of a
______________________________
Self-fulfilling Prophecy
• We tend to like people who are similar
to us. True or false?
TRUE
• Orlando Bloom gets in a very-sad fight with Justin
Bieber. After TMZ has stalked Orlando for hours, he
tries to justify that he had too much to drink and
that’s why he got into a fight.. I mean, come on, that
maple-syrup-guzzling punk is just full of himself and
anyone in that situation would have also weakly
punched that inherently unlikeable Canadian Bacon.
• This is an example of:
Fundamental Attribution Error
• If a person in a crowd does not help in
an apparent emergency situation
because many other people are present,
that person is falling victim to the
phenomenon of __________________.
Bystander Effect
• Social Facilitation occurs when an
individual’s performance improves
because of the presence of others.
Under what condition would this NOT
be true?
Complex tasks or it involves him being
individually scrutinized/evaluated.
• TIE BREAKER!!!
The (mostly) unselfish desire to help others
is called __________________.
Altruism