Question: How can parents help their children achieve high congruence?

a. forcing them to be independent

b. giving them unconditional love

c. not allowing them to use their defense mechanisms

d. pointing out their mistakes

Answer: b. giving them unconditional love

Question: Which of the following is not something the theories of Carl Rogers and Abraham Maslow have in common?

a. Both theories are humanistic.

b. Both theories focus on individual choices.

c. Both theories focus on the personality formed in infancy.

d. Both theories reject biological determinism.

Answer: c. Both theories focus on the personality formed in infancy

Question: In Albert Bandura’s social-cognitive theory, behavior refers to ________.

a. actions that are not internally motivated

b. anything an individual does that can be punished or rewarded

c. reactions that are externally motivated

d. specific actions that result in reactions

Answer: b. anything an individual does that can be punished or rewarded

Question: Which of the following theorists is not neo-Freudian?

Correct!

a. Albert Bandura

b. Carl Jung

c. Erik Erikson

d. Karen Horney

Answer: a. Albert Bandura

Question: Hans and Sybil Eysenck viewed people as having two specific personality dimensions: ________.

a. extroversion/introversion; neuroticism/stability

b. extroversion/stability; introversion/neuroticism

c. phlegmatic/choleric; sanguine/melancholic

d. phlegmatic/melancholic; choleric/sanguine

Answer: a. extroversion/introversion; neuroticism/stability

Question: Who developed the first comprehensive theory of personality?

a. Hippocrates

b. Immanuel Kant

c. Sigmund Freud

d. Wilhelm Wundt

Answer: c. Sigmund Freud

Question: During which period are sexual feelings dormant as children focus on other pursuits, such as school, friendships, hobbies, and sports?

a. anal

b. genital

c. latency

d. phallic

Answer: c. latency

Question:

Answer: a. The word “interactivity” should be changed to the word “reactivity.”

Question: Asa is buying a gift for his mother, an overbearing woman who is difficult to please. When a clerk asks him who he is shopping for he replies, “my smother” instead of “my mother.” What does this exemplify?

a. archetype

b. collective unconscious

c. Freudian slip

d. repressed memory

Answer: c. Freudian slip

Question: Immanuel Kant used the terms persistent, steadfast, and calm to describe a ________ person.

a. choleric

b. melancholic

c. phlegmatic

d. sanguine

Answer: c. phlegmatic