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101

Alfred Adler stressed what in his personality theory?

Option A: the environment

Option B: collective unconscious

Option C: conflict

Option D: striving for superiority

Correct Answer: striving for superiority ✔


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102

The humanistic perspective is to Maslow as the social-cognitive perspective is to:

Option A: Adler

Option B: Allport

Option C: Rogers

Option D: Bandura

Correct Answer: Bandura ✔


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103

Noma is optimistic, impulsive, excitable, and restless. In terms of the Eysenck’s’ basic personality dimensions, he would be classified as:

Option A: unstable-extraverted

Option B: manic-dependent

Option C: external-dependent

Option D: passive-aggressive

Correct Answer: unstable-extraverted ✔


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104

Searching for identity by fulfilling needs is basic to the theory of:

Option A: Freud

Option B: Allport

Option C: Fromm

Option D: Jung

Correct Answer: Fromm ✔


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105

The humanistic perspective emphasized the importance of:

Option A: the self-reference phenomenon

Option B: self-determination

Option C: free association

Option D: factor analysis

Correct Answer: self-determination ✔


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106

The trait of optimism is most closely related to a strong sense of:

Option A: Conditional positive regard

Option B: personal control

Option C: gender identity

Option D: reciprocal determinism

Correct Answer: personal control ✔


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107

Ehsan has a job that pays well, and he recently moved to a neighborhood where there is a little crime. Lately he finds that he is thinking seriously about finding the right person to settle down with, and raising a family. According to Maslow’s hierarchy of needs, at this point in time Ehsan is most likely motivated by:

Option A: belongingness and love needs

Option B: aesthetic needs

Option C: the need for self-actualization

Option D: esteem needs

Correct Answer: belongingness and love needs ✔


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108

Sania expects that diligent study will enable to earn good grades on her tests. Paula’s belief best illustrates:

Option A: the spotlight effect

Option B: an Electra complex

Option C: an internal locus of control

Option D: unconditional positive regard

Correct Answer: an internal locus of control ✔


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109

Saima often has temper tantrums and pouts when she can’t have her own away. She often behaves impulsively and becomes extremely impatient if she can’t have the things that she wants immediately. According to Freud’s view of the personality, Saima’s personality appears to be dominated by:

Option A: her id

Option B: her alter ego

Option C: her ego

Option D: reaction formation

Correct Answer: her id ✔


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110

Hammad sets extremely high standards for both himself and others. He tends to be rigid and inflexible and rarely allows himself to enjoy life. Freud would probably conclude that Hammad is dominated by:

Option A: his id

Option B: penis envy

Option C: his neuroticism

Option D: his superego

Correct Answer: his superego ✔


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111

If you were to kick the dog after a hard day at the office, you would be using:

Option A: Displacement

Option B: Projection

Option C: Reaction Formation

Option D: Rationalization

Correct Answer: Displacement ✔


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112

Striving for fulfilment or being all that you can be characterizes:

Option A: Conditions of worth

Option B: Empathic understanding

Option C: Unconditional positive regard

Option D: Self-actualization

Correct Answer: Self-actualization ✔


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113

When the values in a culture emphasize putting group goals ahead of personal goals and defining one’s identity in terms of the groups one belongs to, the culture is said to be high in:

Option A: self-actualization

Option B: self-efficacy

Option C: collectivism

Option D: individualism

Correct Answer: collectivism ✔


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114

In which of the following cultures is an independent view of the self-most likely to be the norm?

Option A: China

Option B: Japan

Option C: Africa

Option D: United States

Correct Answer: United States ✔


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115

All of the following are parts of Freud’s structure of the personality EXCEPT the:

Option A: Id

Option B: Self

Option C: Superego

Option D: Ego

Correct Answer: Self ✔


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116

Freud named the complex after a mythical Greek figure who unknowingly killed his father and married his mother.

Option A: Narcissus

Option B: Ulysses

Option C: Electra

Option D: Oedipus

Correct Answer: Oedipus ✔


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