Personality Review

5. A readiness to perceive oneself favorably.
6. View personality with a focus on the potential for healthy personal growth.
7. Overestimating others’ noticing and evaluating our appearance, performance, and blunders.
8. A test developed by testing a pool of items and then selecting those that discriminate between groups.
10. Represents internalized ideals and provides standards for judgment.
13. The largely conscious, “executive” part of personality.
15. According to Freud, a boy’s sexual desires toward his mother and feelings of jealousy and hatred for the rival father.
18. A questionnaire on which people respond to items designed to gauge a wide range of feelings and behaviors; used to assess selected personality traits.
19. A set of 10 inkblots, designed by Hermann Rorschach; seeks to identify people’s inner feelings by analyzing their interpretations of the blots.
20. According to Rogers, an attitude of total acceptance toward another person.

1. In personality theory, this perspective focuses on the effects of learning on our personality development.
2. A projective test in which people express their inner feelings and interests through the stories they make up about ambiguous scenes.
3. Views behavior as influenced by the interaction between people’s traits and their social context.
4. The interacting influences of behavior, internal cognition, and environment.
9. A personality test, such as the Rorschach, that provides ambiguous stimuli designed to trigger projection of one’s inner dynamics.
11. Tactics that reduce or redirect anxiety by distorting reality.
12. Modern-day approaches that view personality with a focus on the unconscious and the importance of childhood experiences.
14. A theory of death-related anxiety.
16. A reservoir of unconscious psychic energy.
17. Stage that children pass through, during which the id’s pleasure - seeking energies focus on distinct pleasure-sensitive areas.