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Chapter 11: Personality
Define personality in your own words.
What are psychodynamic approaches to personality based on?
What is the psychoanalytic approach?
How did Freud think personality developed?
What is a Freudian slip?
Briefly differentiate between the three structures of personality (the id, ego, and
superego).
Briefly summarize Freud’s psychosexual stages of personality development.
Differentiate between the Oedipal conflict and the Electra complex.
Why, according to Freud, do we use defence mechanisms?
Briefly summarize the defence mechanisms and provide your own example of each.
Briefly discuss the advantages and disadvantages of Freud’s theory of personality.
How would you describe the Neo-Freudian psychoanalysts?
Briefly summarize Carl Jung’s theory.
Differentiate between the ideas of Karen Horney and Alfred Adler.
What is factor analysis?
How did Hans Eysenck describe personality?
Briefly summarize the Five Factor model of personality.
Briefly discuss the advantages and disadvantages of trait approaches to personality.
How did B.F. Skinner and the behaviourist’s explain personality development?
What is the social cognitive approach to personality?
In your own words, describe reciprocal determinism.
How can you improve your own self-efficacy?
Briefly discuss the advantages and disadvantages of learning approaches to personality.
Summarize briefly the biological and evolutionary approaches to personality.
What is the humanistic approach to personality?
What is self-actualization?
Briefly discuss the advantages and disadvantages of the humanistic approaches to
personality.
Why must psychological tests have reliability and validity?
What are norms and why are they important?
What are self-report measures of personality?
Briefly describe the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory-2 (MMPI-2)
What is test standardization?
What is the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator and when is it usually used?
What is a projective personality test?
Briefly describe the Rorschach test.
Briefly describe the Thematic Apperception Test (TAT).
What is behavioural assessment and when would it likely be used?
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