PSYC 331 Study Guide - Exam 1
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Psychologists who subscribe to the psychoanalytic approach argue _____. ANS✔✔
That people's unconscious minds are largely responsible for important differences in
their behavior styles
Which approach to personality emphasizes the role of an individual's personal
responsibility and feelings of self-acceptance? ANS✔✔ Humanistic
True or False: Most of the research on personality reported in the textbook is based
on studies with people from collectivist culture. ANS✔✔ False; Individualistic
cultures
What type of test produces approximately the same results upon being
readministered? ANS✔✔ Test-retest coefficient
The use of nonmanipulated variables is required when an independent variable
exists without _____. ANS✔✔ The experimenter's intervention
An investigator who uses a ______ begins with a large number of participants and
randomly assigns them to experimental groups. ANS✔✔ Manipulated independent
variable
The sequence researchers move through when using the hypothesis-testing
approach are _____. ANS✔✔ Theory, prediction, test
A _____ exists without the researcher's intervention. ANS✔✔ Nonmanipulated
independent variable
, Erikson outlined _____ stages of personality development that we pass through
during our lifetimes. ANS✔✔ Eight
Carl Jung proposed the existence of a collective unconscious that houses primordial
images he called _____. ANS✔✔ Archetypes
Who introduced the concept of striving for superiority to account for most human
motivation? ANS✔✔ Alfred Adler
Karen Horney identified three neurotic styles, which she called: moving toward
people, moving against people, and _____. ANS✔✔ Moving away from people.
Object relations theorists are interested in which type of relationship? ANS✔✔ An
infant's relationship with his or her parents.
______ is experienced when unacceptable id impulses are dangerously close to
breaking into consciousness. ANS✔✔ Neurotic anxiety
Coping Strategies refers to _____. ANS✔✔ The efforts to cope with anxiety in the
face of a perceived threat
Research on frustration and aggression generally has found that frustration
sometimes leads to _____. ANS✔✔ Aggression
"Sociable versus retiring; Fun-loving versus sober; Affectionate versus reserved" are
characteristics of which one of the Big Five Personality Factors? ANS✔✔
Extraversion
"Worried versus calm; Insecure versus secure; Self-pitying versus self-satisfied" are
characteristics of which one of the Big Five Personality Factors? ANS✔✔ Neuroticism
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