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There were three friends. Maybe you've heard of them! Harry was rational, logical, and cunning. Hermione was rule-oriented, moral, and always ethical. Ron was pleasure seeking, found it hard to delay gratification, and usually just did what he wanted. According to Freud, Hermione was mostly ________.


A) id
B) ego
C) superego
D) libido

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Cattell's research and use of factor analysis essentially scaled down many, many different ways of describing aspects of personality into ________ source traits.


A) 16
B) 10
C) 5
D) 2

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Which of the following is the most criticized and least empirically supported of Freud's ideas?


A) superego
B) ego
C) latency period
D) Oedipus and Electra complexes

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Which name is most closely associated with the concept of a trait-situation interaction?


A) Mischel
B) Cattell
C) Horn
D) Costa

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In Sigmund Freud's theory, the ________ operates according to the pleasure principle.


A) id
B) ego
C) thanatos
D) superego

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Identifying with one's opposite-sex parent occurs in which psychosexual stage?


A) oral
B) anal
C) phallic
D) genital

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When Freud referred to the sexual drive of babies and young children, to what was he really referring?


A) the fact that sexual orientation is established from birth
B) the fact that children focus on their bodies to give them physical pleasure
C) the fact that children need to be taught about sexual morality from a very early age
D) the fact that children have genitals that distinguish them as male or female from birth

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Which term was given to psychoanalysts who broke away from strict interpretation of Freud's theory and developed theories of their own that were based upon Freud's work?


A) retro-Freudians
B) nouveau-Freudians
C) neo-Freudians
D) anti-Freudians

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For Freud, material that we are not currently aware of but that can be easily recalled is in the ________ mind.


A) unconscious
B) preconscious
C) collective unconscious
D) conscious

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A baseball player's son is quite talented; he has received lots of awards over the years. When he gets up to bat, he expects to get a hit, and when he is in the field, he expects to make every catch. According to Bandura, what characteristic does this young man seem to have?


A) self-regard
B) self-centeredness
C) self-efficacy
D) self-actualization

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Which aspect of the mind held the greatest fascination for Freud?


A) the preconscious mind
B) the conscious area
C) suppressions
D) the unconscious

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Which of the following is NOT one of the four basic types of tools used by psychologists to measure personality?


A) personal interview
B) objective tests
C) projective tests
D) aptitude tests

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Tony has devised a test in which people look at clouds and talk about what they see. What type of test would psychologists call this?


A) dynamic
B) projective
C) objective
D) predictive

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According to Freud, the reality principle is ________.


A) the way in which the ego tries to delay satisfying the id's desires until it can do so safely and successfully
B) the way in which the id tries to obtain gratification and avoid pain
C) the way in which the ego ideal establishes standards of what one would like to be
D) the way in which young children instinctively seek self-actualization

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The pleasure principle is to the reality principle as the ________ is to the ________.


A) ego; id
B) id; ego
C) ego; superego
D) id; superego

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Carl Rogers believed that people question themselves and experience negative effects on their self-concept when they receive ________.


A) conditional esteem
B) unconditional esteem
C) conditional positive regard
D) unconditional positive regard

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When Candace ordered a hot fudge sundae and a diet soda, she told herself that the calories from the ice cream really were not a big deal because the diet soda sort of balanced it all out. Which of Freud's defense mechanisms is motivating Candace?


A) repression
B) rationalization
C) sublimation
D) projection

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Which of the following is LEAST likely to be associated with a collectivist culture?


A) duty
B) order
C) respect for elders
D) equality

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Trait theories are less concerned with ________ and more concerned with ________.


A) changing personality; predicting personality
B) describing personality; explaining personality development
C) predicting personality; changing personality
D) predicting behavior; changing personality

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Jill is an 8-year-old girl who is having a birthday party. According to Freud, since Jill is in the latency period, whom would you expect to be at her party?


A) mostly girls
B) mostly boys
C) mostly male parents who look like her father
D) mostly parents

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