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ISE Theories of Personality
Jess Feist
10th edition
9781260575446
TEST BANK NEW 2025
1) 125 questions - with and without answers / all chapters
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3) Specific exam hacks (with detailed chapters you should focus on)
4) 30 real life examples of personality traits explained
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, 20 open questions with answers
Part 1: Introduction to Personality Theory
1. What is personality?
Answer: Personality refers to a pattern of relatively permanent traits and
characteristics that give consistency to an individual's behavior.
2. What are the primary components of a useful theory?
Answer: A useful theory must generate research, be falsifiable, organize data, guide
action, be internally consistent, and be parsimonious.
Part 2: Freud's Psychoanalysis
3. What are the three levels of mental life according to Freud?
Answer: The unconscious, preconscious, and conscious.
4. What are Freud's provinces of the mind?
Answer: The id, ego, and superego.
Part 3: Adler's Individual Psychology
5. What is the main motivation for human behavior in Adler's theory?
Answer: The striving for success or superiority.
6. What is social interest according to Adler?
Answer: A feeling of oneness with humanity and the desire to contribute to societal
welfare.
Part 4: Jung's Analytical Psychology
7. What are archetypes in Jung's theory?
Answer: Universal symbols originating from the collective unconscious, such as the
persona, shadow, anima/animus, and the self.
8. What is individuation in Jung's theory?
Answer: The process of integrating various parts of the psyche to achieve self-
realization.
Part 5: Klein's Object Relations Theory
9. What is the focus of object relations theory?
Answer: Interpersonal relationships, especially the early mother-child bond.
10. What is the depressive position in Klein's theory?
Answer: The anxiety infants experience over losing their mother while simultaneously
wanting to harm her.
Part 6: Horney's Psychoanalytic Social Theory
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