Emotion, and Personality Quiz Questions
with complete answers
id - ✔✔In Freudian psychoanalytical theory the ____ is an innate biological
instinct that operates on the pleasure principle.
Conscience
Ego
Id
Superego
Ego - ✔✔Which of the following did Freud consider to be the "executor" or
"regulator of personality?"
superego
ego
id
consciousness
Erogenous - ✔✔Which of the following is not one of Freud's proposed
psychosexual stages?
Erogenous
Anal
Phallic
Oral
Oral - ✔✔Freud proposed a natural progression through five developmental
psychosexual stages. Stagnation of development during which phase could
result in pica, a disorder characterized by the compusion to chew on
non-nutritional substances such as chalk or metal?
,Oral
Genital
Latency
Anal
Phallic
Self-Reliance - ✔✔Which of the following is not one of the big five
personality traits?
Openness
Conscientiousness
Self-Reliance
Neuroticism
Extraversion
Tactile - ✔✔Which of the following is not one of Sigmund Freud's stages of
psychosexual development?
Possible Answers:
Latent
Tactile
Phallic
Oral
Genital
The concept was based on the idea that it was better to be a man -
✔✔Freud was an influential albeit controversial figure of psychoanalysis. He
came up with the idea of the ego, superego, and the id and explored how
repressed sexual desires could potentially influence neurosis. Lacking enough
empirical research to support his claims, many of his ideas have been
strongly criticized and disproven.
,Which statement is a feminist criticism of the Freudian concept of penis
envy?
Possible Answers:
- The concept was based on the idea that it was better to be a man
- Freud's sexist attitudes were embodied in his work
- Freud lacked the scientific research necessary to support his conjectures
- Freud was far too focused on women's resentment as an influence on their
behavior
Ego - ✔✔According to Freud, which part of the mind operates on the reality
principle?
Possible Answers:
personality
superego
id
ego
unconscious
Muscular and Mature-looking, adventurous, dominant, courageous -
✔✔According to the Somatotype theory of personality, which of the
following descriptions would most likely describe a mesomorph?
Possible Answers:
- Muscular and mature-looking, adventurous, dominant, courageous
- Round-shaped, adventurous, dominant, courageous
- Muscular and mature-looking, self-conscious, private, anxious
- Thin and young-looking, self-conscious, private, anxious
- Round-shaped, tolerant, sociable, food-loving
, Incongruence - ✔✔In Carl Rogers' humanistic theory of personality, which
term describes the separation between one's self-concept and their reality?
Possible Answers:
Split self
Dissociation
Incongruence
Possible selves
Daniel Goleman - ✔✔The concept of Emotional Intelligence (or EQ) was
first proposed by __________.
Possible Answers:
Gordon Allport
Sigmund Freud
Howard Gardner
Sandra Starr
Daniel Goleman
His theory that personality developed across a person whole life - ✔✔Which
of the following features differentiates Erik Erikson's theory of personality
from other theories?
Possible Answers:
- His model considers the role of culture in personality development.
- His model considers the role of unconscious conflicts and desires.
- His theory that personality developed across a person's whole life.
- His theory for gender differences in personality.
That each person is psychologically unique and possesses as least one trait
that no one else does - ✔✔What is the idiographic view of personalities?