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Question 21

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Professor Benvolio's personality course emphasizes the importance of Gordon Allport's contributions to the field of psychology. Professor Benvolio would be most likely to agree that:

A) people fail to understand the power of culture on behavior, and so they attribute another person's mysterious actions to the individual's personality rather than cultural norms.
B) repression occurs when a person's own unacceptable or threatening feelings are repressed and then attributed to someone else.
C) the price of free will is often anxiety and despair, which is why many people try to escape from freedom into narrow certainties.
D) most individuals have five to ten central traits that reflect a characteristic way of behaving, dealing

E) B) and C)
F) A) and B)

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After twelve years of attending the same schools, Holly and Amy chose to attend colleges in different states. Holly remembered Amy as a shy but friendly girl who rarely took risks, and so Holly was surprised when her friend sent an e-mail describing the thrill of skydiving. Holly's surprise occurred because Amy's behaviors don't match the ________________ that Holly had observed in high school.

A) peak experiences
B) personality traits
C) archetypes
D) defense mechanisms

E) B) and C)
F) None of the above

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In a study mentioned in the textbook, Chinese and American pairs of players had to play a communication game that required each partner to be able to take the other's perspective. Eye-gaze measures showed that the Chinese players were almost always able to take their partner's perspective, whereas the American players often completely failed at this task.

According to Abraham Maslow, the most important aspects of personality are:

The process of reciprocal determinism helps explain the influence of the nonshared environment on personality.

Which of the following are not among the Big Five personality factors?

Research on aggressiveness has shown that:

The personality theorist who described the importance of having peak experiences was:

According to the object-relations school, men develop more rigid boundaries between themselves and other people.

According to Sigmund Freud, the aspect of personality that is partly conscious, but mostly unconscious, is the:

Most of the cornerstone assumptions in psychoanalytic theory have not been supported scientifically.

Which of the following theories of personality would be most likely to emphasize the freedom of individuals to choose to act in particular ways?

Behavioral geneticists are finding that within a group of people, about _______________ of the variation in personality traits such as happiness is attributable to genetic differences.

Raymond B. Cattell advanced the study of personality by applying a statistical method called case-study analysis.

Mark is angry when the teacher blames him for misbehaving when it actually was the child behind him who had been acting up. As he leaves after school, he shoves another boy who gets in his way. Freud would say that Mark is unconsciously using the defense mechanism of:

In psychoanalysis, the part of the personality that represents reason, good sense, and rational self-control is called:

Gordon Allport was one of the most influential psychologists in personality theory.

According to Carl Rogers, a man who loves his wife only when she is looking her best is giving her _______________ positive regard.

_______________, according to many clinical psychologists, is an important trait that is not included among the Big Five.

Asked about a recently published study showing that little girls do not have penis envy, a psychodynamic theorist immediately says that the little girls are all in denial and do not want to admit to the feelings that they have. This response is an example of: