FREE PSYCHOLOGY AND STUDY GAMES ABOUT CHAPTER

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FREE PSYCHOLOGY AND STUDY GAMES ABOUT CHAPTER

13 GEN PSYCH EXAM QUESTIONS

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-Guarantee passing score -103 Questions and Answers -format set of multiple-choice -Expert-Verified Explanation Question 1: psychological defense mechanism in which a person invents acceptable excuses for unacceptable behavior.

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Rationalization Question 2: level of the mind in which thoughts, feelings, memories, and other information are kept that are not easily or voluntarily brought into consciousness.

• Can be revealed in dreams and Freudian slips of the tongue.

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Unconscious mind Question 3: a field of study of the relationship between heredity and personality.

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Behavior genetics Question 4: unconscious distortions of a person's perception of reality that reduce stress and anxiety.

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Psychological defense mechanisms

Question 5: method of personality assessment in which the professional asks questions of the client and allows the client to answer, either in a structured or unstructured fashion.

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Interview Question 6: learning theory that includes cognitive processes such as anticipating, judging, memory, and imitation of models.

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Social cognitive view Question 7: Freud's term for both the theory of personality and the therapy based on it.

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Psychoanalysis

Question 8: Current research has found support for

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• Defense mechanisms
• Concept of an unconscious mind that can influence conscious behavior

Question 9: Personality Tests and Internet

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? There are numerous personality tests available on the Internet.? Not all equal in quality, reliability, or validity.? Lack of professional interpretation of the results of such tests.Question 10: paper and pencil or computerized test that consists of statements that require a specific, standardized response from the person taking the test.

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Personality inventory

Question 11: the enduring characteristics with which each person is born.

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Temperament

Question 12: assessment in which a numerical value is assigned to specific behavior that is listed in the scale.

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Rating scale

Question 13: designed to detect abnormal personality.

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MMPI-2

Question 14: Although separated shortly after birth and reunited at age 39, they exhibited many similarities in personality and personal habits.

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Edward Lewis, otherwise known as the "Jim" twins.Question 15: the emotional style of a person that may range from easygoing, friendly, and likeable to grumpy, crabby, and unpleasant.

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Agreeableness Question 16: concepts and impressions that are only valid within a particular person's perception and may be influenced by biases, prejudice, and personal experiences. This is a problem with projective tests.

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Subjective Question 17: anxiety created when a child is born into the bigger and more powerful world of older children and adults.

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Basic anxiety Question 18: a person fixated in the anal stage who is neat, fussy, stingy, and stubborn.

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Anal retentive personality

Question 19: Cross-cultural research has found support for the five- factor model of personality traits in a number of different cultures.

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Future research will explore the degree to which child-rearing practices and heredity may influence the five personality factors.Question 20: the instinctual energy that may come into conflict with the demands of a society's standards for behavior.

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Libido Question 21: individual's perception of how effective a behavior will be in any particular circumstance (NOT the same as self-esteem).

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Self-efficacy

Question 22: one's perception of actual characteristics, traits, and abilities.

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Real self

Question 23: people who are outgoing and sociable.

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Extraverts Question 24: situation occurring in the phallic stage in which a child develops a sexual attraction to the opposite-sex parent and jealousy of the same-sex parent.

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Oedipus complex

Question 25: one's perception of whom one should be or would like to be.

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Ideal self