Chapter 12
1. Define the construct of personality in terms of consistency and distinctiveness.
2. Explain what is meant by a personality trait and describe proposed systems for organizing traits.
3. List and describe the three components into which Freud divided the personality and indicate how these are distributed across three levels of awareness.
4. Explain the preeminence of sexual and aggressive conflicts in Freud's theory and describe the operation of defense mechanisms.
5. Outline Freud's psychosexual stages of development and their theorized relations to adult personality.
6. Summarize the revisions of Freud's theory proposed by Jung and Adler.
7. Summarize the strengths and weaknesses of the psychodynamic approach to personality.
8. Discuss how Skinner's principles of operant conditioning can be applied to the structure and development of personality.
9. Describe Bandura's social-learning theory and compare it to Skinner's viewpoint.
10. Identify Mischel's major contribution to personality theory and indicate why his ideas have generated so much controversy.
11. Summarize the strengths and weaknesses of the behavioral approach to personality.
12. Explain how humanism was a reaction against both the behavioral and psychodynamic approaches and discuss the assumptions of the humanistic view.
13. Identify the single structural construct in Rogers's person-centered theory and summarize his view of personality development.
14. Explain what Maslow meant by self-actualization and summarize his findings on the characteristics of self-actualizing people.
15. Summarize the strengths and weaknesses of the humanistic approach to personality.
16. Describe Sheldon's and Eysenck's biological theories of personality.
17. Summarize the Featured Study on personality similarity in twins and other research on heredity of personality.
18. Summarize the strengths and weaknesses of the biological approach to personality.
19. Discuss the meaning and significance of locus of control.
20. Discuss the meaning of sensation seeking and identify the characteristics of high sensation seekers.
21. Explain what is meant by self-monitoring and discuss the effects of self-monitoring on interpersonal relationships.
22. Summarize research on culture and personality.
23. Explain how the chapter highlighted three of the text's unifying themes.
24. Outline the four principal uses of personality tests.
25. Describe the MMPI, 16 PF, or NEO Personality Inventory and summarize the strengths and weaknesses of self-report inventories.
26. Describe the projective hypothesis and summarize the strengths and weaknesses of projective tests.
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