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Psychology - Fill-in-the-Blanks - Personality

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Personality refers to the unique and relatively consistent patterns of thoughts, feelings, and behaviors that define how a person interacts with the world. It shapes an individual’s distinctive way of responding to situations and influences their relationships, motivations, and emotional experiences.

The unique and relatively stable ways in which people think, feel, and behave is known as ____________.

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Definition

The unique and relatively stable ways in which people think, feel, and behave is known as ____________.

personality

The value judgements of a person’s moral and ethical behaviour are known as ____________.

character

The enduring characteristics with which each person is born are known as their ____________.

temperament

The level of the mind in which information is available but not currently conscious is called the ____________.

preconscious

The ____________ mind is the level of the mind that is aware of immediate surroundings and perceptions.

conscious

The ____________ is the level of the min din which thoughts, feelings, memories, and other information are kept that are not easily or voluntarily brought into consciousness.

unconscious

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TermDefinition

The unique and relatively stable ways in which people think, feel, and behave is known as ____________.

personality

The value judgements of a person’s moral and ethical behaviour are known as ____________.

character

The enduring characteristics with which each person is born are known as their ____________.

temperament

The level of the mind in which information is available but not currently conscious is called the ____________.

preconscious

The ____________ mind is the level of the mind that is aware of immediate surroundings and perceptions.

conscious

The ____________ is the level of the min din which thoughts, feelings, memories, and other information are kept that are not easily or voluntarily brought into consciousness.

unconscious

The ____________ is the part of the personality present at birth and completely unconscious.

id

The ____________ is the part of the personality that develops out of a need to deal with reality, mostly conscious, rational and logical.

ego

The ____________ is the part of the personality that acts as a moral centre.

supergo

A ____________ is a disorder in which the person does not fully resolve the conflict in a particular psychosexual stage, resulting in personality traits and behaviour associated with that earlier stage.

fixation

According to Freud, this is the first stage, occuring in the first ear of life, in which the mouth is the erogenous zone and weaning is the primary conflict. It is called the ____________ ____________.

Oral stage

According to Freud, the second stage of personality development, occuring from about 1 to 3 years of age, in wihc the anus is the erogenous zone adn toilet training is the source of conflict is called the ____________ ____________.

anal stage

The third Freudian stage, occuring from about 3 to 6 years of age, in which the child discovers sexual feelins is know as the ____________ ____________.

phallic stage

The fourth Freudian stage, occuring during the school years in which the sexual feelings of the child are repressed while the child develops in other ways is known as the ____________ ____________.

latency stage

The final stage of personality development according to Freud is known as the ____________ ____________, and sexual feelings reawaken with appropriate targets.

Genital stage

____________ were followers of Freudian who developed their own competing theories of psychoanalysis.

Neo-Freudians

____________ developed a theory of collective unconscious.

Jung

Jung’s name for the unconscious mind as described by Freud is called the ____________ ____________.

personal unconscious

The ____________ ____________ is Jung’s name for the memroesi shared by all members of the human species.

collective unconscious

Jung’s collective, universal memories were called ____________.

archetypes

____________ developed a theory based on social rather than sexual relationships, covering the entire lifespan.

Erikson

____________ proposed feelings of inferiority as the driving force behind personality and developed birth-order theory.

Adler

____________ developed a theory based on basic anxiety and rejected the ceontop of penis envy.

Horney

According to behaviourists, ____________ are sets of well-learned responses that have become automatic.

Habits

is the individual's perception of how effective a behaviour will be in any particular circumstance.

Self-efficacy

The is the "third force" in psychology that focuses on those aspects of personality that make people uniquely human, such as subjective feelings and freedom of choice.

Humanistic perspective

The striving to fullfill one's innate capacities and capabilities is called .

Self-actualization

is positive regard that is given without conditions or strings attached.

Unconditional positive regard

A is a person who is in touch with and trusting of the deepest, innermost urgers and feelings.

Fully functional person

are theories that endeavor to describe the characteristics that make up human personality in an effort to predict future behaviour.

Trait theories

Aspects of personality that can easily be seen by other people in the outward actions of a person are called .

surface traits

The model of personality traits that describes five basic trait dimensions is called the .

five-factor model

is a field of study of the relationship between heredity and personality.

Behaviour genetics

The is a method of personality assessment in which the professional asks questions of the client and allows the client to answer, either in a structured or unstructued fashion.

interview

The is the tendency of an interviewer to allow positive characteristics of a client to influence the assessments of the client's behaviour and statements.

halo effect

are personality assessments that present ambiguous visual stimuli to the client and ask the cleint to respond with whatever comes to mind.

projective tests

A is a paper-and-pencil or computerized test that consists of statements that require a speific, standardized response from the person taking the test.

Personality inventory