Psychology Chapter on Personality Theories

H.J.Eysenck proposed that personality could be reduced into two broad ______.

One of the dimensions proposed by Eysenck is ______ vs. emotional stability.

People who score high on neuroticism tend to be ______, moody, touchy, restless and quickly lose control.

Another dimension proposed by Eysenck is extraversion vs. ______.

People who score high on extraversion tend to be active, ______, impulsive and thrill-seeking.

In a later work, Eysenck proposed a third dimension called ______ vs. Sociability.

A person who scores high on the psychoticism dimension tends to be hostile, egocentric, and ______.

The ______ approach to studying personality is highly popular.

Freud's theory explores the origins and effects of ______ conflicts and how individuals deal with them.

The conscious level encompasses the thoughts, feelings, and ______ that individuals are aware of.

The ______ level of consciousness contains mental activity that individuals may become aware of only if they pay close attention to it.

According to Freud, the ______ serves as a reservoir for instinctual drives and repressed thoughts and desires.

The ______ is driven by the pleasure principle, seeking immediate gratification and avoiding pain.

Freud believed that much of a person's instinctual energy is ______ in nature.

The ______ is unconcerned with moral values or the well-being of others.

The ______ of psychoanalysis is to bring repressed unconscious material to conscious awareness, promoting self-awareness and integration.

The way we perceive ourselves and the ideas we hold about our competencies and attributes is also called ______.

Self-esteem is an important aspect of our ______.

Some people have high ______, whereas others may have low self-esteem.

To assess self-esteem, we present a variety of statements to a person and ask her/him to indicate the extent to which those statements are ______ for her or him.

Children seem to have formed self-esteem at least in four areas: academic competence, social competence, physical/athletic competence, and physical ______.

Finding out an individual's self-concept is not ______.

A person may have a very positive view of her/his athletic bravery, but a negative view of her/his academic ______.

Our capacity to view ourselves in terms of stable dispositions permits us to combine separate self-evaluations into a general psychological image of ______.

Type - B personality can be understood as the absence of Type - A ______.

Individuals characterized by Type - C personality are prone to ______.

Type - D personality is characterized by proneness to ______.

Trait approaches seek to describe the basic components of ______.

A trait is considered a relatively enduring ______ or quality.

Gordon Allport is considered the pioneer of the ______ approach.

Traits are generally consistent across different ______.

Allport proposed that individuals possess a number of ______ that are dynamic in nature.

Children with high academic self-esteem perform better in schools than those with low ______ self-esteem.

Children with high social self-esteem are more liked by their ______ than those with low social self-esteem.

Studies have shown that warm and positive ______ helps in the development of high self-esteem among children.

A person who believes that they have the ability required by a particular situation demonstrates high ______.

The notion of self-efficacy is based on ______'s social learning theory.

People with a strong sense of self-efficacy feel less ______.

Self-regulation refers to our ability to organize and monitor our own ______.

This becomes possible through what is commonly known as ______.

Allport categorised traits into cardinal, central, and ______.

Cardinal traits are highly ______ dispositions.

Mahatma Gandhi's non-violence is an example of a ______ trait.

Cattell used ______ analysis to discover common personality structures.

Cattell identified ______ primary or source traits.

Central traits are less pervasive but still quite ______ dispositions.

Allport believed that a person's reaction to situations depends on their ______.

Cattell described source traits in terms of opposing ______.