1. Personality Vocab Jeopardy Game BY: Rachel Baumgartner

2. Psychoanalytic Perspective Humanistic Perspective Trait Perspective Social-Cognitive Perspective 100 500 400 300 200 500 400 300 200 100 500 400 300 200 100 500 400 300 200 100

3. Define psychoanalysis? Answer

4. Freud’s theory of personality that attributes thoughts and actions to unconscious motives and conflicts; the techniques used in treating psychological disorders by seeking to expose and interpret unconscious tensions.

5. Define the psychosexual stages. Answer

6. The childhood stages of development: 1. oral (0-18 months)-pleasure centers on the mouth-sucking, biting, chewing\ 2. Anal (18-36 months)- pleasure focuses on bowel and bladder elimination; coping with demands for control. 3. Phallic (3-6 years)- pleasure zone is the genitals; coping with incestuous sexual feelings. 4. Latency (6 to puberty)- dormant sexual feelings 5. Genital (puberty on)- maturation of sexual interests

7. What are some examples of defense mechanisms? Answer

8. 1. Repression 2. Regression 3. Reaction Formation 4. Projection 5. Rationalization 6. Displacment

9. Define the thematic Apperception Test (TAT). Answer

10. A projective test in which people express their inner feelings and interests through the stories they make up about ambiguous scenes.

11. Define the Rorschach Inkblot test. Answer

12. The most widely used projective test, a set of 10 inkblots, designed by Herman Rorschach; seeks to identify people’s inner feeling by analyzing their interpretations of the blots.

13. Define self- actualization. Answer

14. According to Maslow, the ultimate psychological need that arises after basic physical and psychological needs are met and self-esteem is achieved; the motivation to fulfill one’s potential.

15. Define unconditional positive regard. Answer

16. According to Rogers, an attitude of total acceptance toward another person.

17. Define self-concept. Answer

18. All our thoughts and feelings about ourselves, in answer to the question, “Who am I”?

19. What is Maslow’s perspective? Answer

20. He proposed that we are motivated by a hierarchy of needs. If our physiological needs are met, we become concerned with personal safety: if we achieve a sense of security, we then seek to love, to be loved, and to love ourselves; with our love needs satisfied, we seek self- esteem.

21. What is Rogers perspective? Answer

22. He agreed with Maslow unless thwarted by an environment that inhibits growth, each of us is like an acorn, primed for growth and fulfilment. Rogers believed that a growth-promoting climate required three-conditions-genuineness, acceptance, and empathy.

23. Define a trait. Answer

24. A characteristic pattern of behavior or a disposition to feel and act, as assessed by self-report inventories and peer reports.

25. Define a personality inventory. Answer

26. A questionnaire (often with true-false or agree-disagree items) on which people respond to items designed to gauge a wide range of feelings and behaviors; used to assess selected personality traits.

27. Define the Minnesota Personality Inventory (MMPI). Anwser

28. The most widely researched and clinically used of all personality tests. Originally developed to identify emotional disorders (still considered its most appropriate use), this test is now used for many other screening purposes.

29. Define the empirically derived test. Answer

30. A test (such as the MMPI) developed by testing a pool of items and them selecting those that discriminate between groups.

31. What are the “Big Five” personality factors? Answer

32. 1. Conscientiousness 2. Agreeableness 3. Neuroticism 4. Openness 5. Extraversion

33. Define social-cognitive perspective. Answer

34. Views behavior as influenced by the interaction between persons (and their thinking) and their social context.

35. Define reciprocal determinism. Answer

36. The interacting influences between personality and environmental factors.

37. Define personal control. Answer

38. Our sense of controlling our environment rather than feeling helpless.

39. Define external locus of control. Answer

40. The perception that chance or outside forces beyond one’s personal control determine one’s fate.

41. Define internal locus of control. Answer

42. The perception that one controls one’s own fate.