AP Psychology - Personality and Testing/Individual Differences

According to Freud, thoughts that are too unsettling for people to acknowledge are...

One has no memory of a high school boyfriend who broke up with her. Which defense mechanism?

Tests designed to assess what a person has learned are called _____ tests.

Who emphasized that slips of the tongue reveal the personality dynamics of psych. disorders?

Which of the following are the "Big Five" personality factors?

A bell-shaped curve that characterizes a large sample of intelligence test scores shows a

The Thematic Apperception Test requires people to respond to

The psychologist who disagreed with Spearman and identified 7 clusters of mental abilities was

In psychoanalytic theory, the part of the personality that wants for immediate gratification is

Higher intelligence scores are +pos correlated with the volume of ____ in specific brain areas

Learning from experience, solving problems, and using knowledge to adapt to a new situation is

Freud said that the remembered events in our dreams were a censored expression of the dreams...

Personality is best defined as an individual's...

Horney and Adler placed greater emphasis than Freud on the role of _____ in personality develop

Psychotherapists who ask you to speak whatever thoughts come to mind is using this technique...

According to Freud, the unconscious is...

A priest who attempts to overcome his hidden doubts with intense expressions of belief is...

Freud called his theory of personality and the associated treatment...

Frank refuses to believe that he is addicted to drugs despite overwhelming evidence...

A highly intelligent person frequently loses her temper and her best friends. She has low

For the original version of the Stanford-Binet, IQ was defined as...

A mentally disabled person who cannot read nor write is able to play complex musical selections

Freud referred to a focus of pleasure-seeking energies at an earlier psychosexual stage as

Which of the following is the best definition of the defense mechanism sublimation?

Feeling guilty about hurting someone would be attributed to this by Freud

a consistent tendency to be shy is best described as a(n)

Releasing unexpressed anger by kicking the family pet illustrates the defense mechanism of...

Repressing one's homosexual desires but believing all men are staring at you lustfully is...

The Big Five is the term currently used to refer to basic

which of the following is the correct order of Freud's psychosexual stages of development

Brain size is ____ correlated with intelligence, and speedy perception is ___ correlated too

Which of the following tests characteristically describes personality in flattering terms?

If a test is standardized, this means that

If a test yields consistent results every time it is used, it has a high degree of...

Which neo-Freudian theorist emphasized the influence of the collective unconscious.

The Oedipus complex is the term used by Freud to describe...

Carl Rogers referred to an attitude of total acceptance toward another person as

Freud's theory says that the ego disguises threatening impulses and reduces anxiety by means of

Expressing a dream in which you are chased by a dog, is telling the _____ content of your dream

By professional training, Sigmund Freud was a...

Trait theorists are more concerned with_____ personality than with ______ it.

Psychologists use ____ to assess individuals' aptitudes and compare them with those of others

Freud would suggest that a one year old who puts everything in her mouth is going in this stage

Scoring high on tests of mathematical aptitude and scoring high on other tests supports...

Tests that present ambiguous stimuli designed to uncover hidden personality dynamics are called

Retreating to behavior patterns characteristic of an earlier, more infantile stage is...

When you have feelings of love and disgust for someone, your ___ may enable you to express both

Emotional intelligence is a critical component of

The famous test introduced by Hermann Rorschach asks test-takers to respond to

The chron. age that best corresponds to a given level of intelligence test performance is...