AP Psychology Homework
Personality (Part II)

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  1. According to Rogers, an attitude of total acceptance toward another person. ____________________________ ________________________ ____________________

  2. A projective test in which people express their inner feelings and interests through the stories they make up about ambiguous scenes. __________________________ _________________________ test or ___________

  3. The perspective, led by Abraham Maslow and Carl Rogers that emphasizes the growth potential of healthy people. ______________________________ perspective.

  4. Carl Jung’s Concept of a shared, inherited reservoir of memory traces from our species’ history. ___________________________ _________________________________

  5. The id operates on this principle, demanding immediate gratification. _____________________________ principle.

  6. The scientific study of optimal human functioning. It aims to discover and promote conditions that enable individuals and communities to thrive. __________________________ psychology

  7. The defense mechanism by which people channel their unacceptable impulses into socially approved activities. ____________________________________

  8. The psychological perspective spearheaded by Sigmund Freud. ___________________________________ theory.

  9. 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. _____________________________ ___________________________

  10. The ego operates on this principle, satisfying the id’s desires in ways that will realistically bring pleasure rather than pain. ____________________________ principle.

  11. According to Freud, a lingering focus of pleasure-seeking energies (libido) at an earlier psychosexual stage, where conflicts were unresolved. ____________________________

  12. A test (such as the MMPI) developed by testing a pool of items (questions) and then selecting those that discriminate between groups. ______________________________ ____________________________ test.

  13. The basic defense mechanism that banishes anxiety-provoking thoughts, feelings, and memories from consciousness. ___________________________________

  14. The perception that chance or outside forces beyond one’s control determine one’s fate. ___________________________ _______________________ _____ ____________________

  15. A method of exploring the unconscious in which the person relaxes and says whatever comes to mind. _____________________ _____________________________

  16. In psychoanalytic theory, the ego’s protective methods of reducing anxiety by unconsciously distorting them. _____________________________ _________________________

  17. The largely conscious "executive" portion of the personality that mediates between the demands of the id, superego, and reality. __________________

  18. The perception that one controls one’s own fate. ___________________________ ______________________ _________ ____________________
 


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