PSY2012 – Despite continuous effort, personality may be expressed

27 Jun PSY2012 – Despite continuous effort, personality may be expressed

Question
Despite continuous effort, personality may be expressed via social behavior, at an unconscious level. This statement most resembles which personality perspective?

a)

Trait Perspective

b)

Humanistic Perspective

c)

Psychoanalytic Perspective

d)

Social Cognitive Perspective

Identify the functions of the ego, contributing to the expression of personality.

a)

Ensure individuals remain lawful and moral

b)

Permit selfish thoughts, necessary for developing a strong-willed personality

c)

Increase the expression of unconscious thoughts

d)

Maintain balance between the id and superego; utilize defense mechanisms to distort reality to cope with stress

According to the Humanistic Perspective…

a)

All individual’s strive to achieve self-actualization

b)

All individuals undergo an unconscious, dynamic battle between what is desired in life and what is possible to achieve in life

c)

An individual’s personality is governed by genetics and neurophysiology

d)

An individual’s personality is the interaction between expressed traits

Albert Bandura’s Triadic Reciprocal Determinism model of personality suggests…

a)

Personality is the step-wise achievement towards self-actualization

b)

Personality is the interaction between three traits: neuroticism, openness, and intelligence

c)

Personality is the interaction between personal, environmental and behavioral factors

d)

Personality is the interaction between the id, ego and superego

How may Bandura’s Social-Cognitive Perspective of personality better describe differences in how a person expresses their personality throughout their lifetime?

a)

Maturing thought processes influence how a person perceives and responds to their surroundings AND Prenatal teratogen exposure limiting cognitive maturation can impact personality

b)

None of the answers provided are correct

c)

Prenatal teratogen exposure limiting cognitive maturation can impact personality

d)

Maturing thought processes influence how a person perceives and responds to their surroundings

Extraversion, neuroticism (emotional stability), conscientiousness, and agreeableness can are associated with increased activity in specific brain structures, as measured by neuroimaging techniques. However, there is an overall increase in neural activity across the brain associated with openness. What do these results imply?

a)

Openness is not a personality trait

b)

Extraversion, neuroticism, conscientiousness and agreeableness are innate and openness is a learned trait

c)

Extraversion, neuroticism, conscientiousness and agreeableness contribute to the openness personality trait.

d)

Openness cannot be measured

Which of the following is not associated with increased risk of psychopathology?

a)

Incongruences in neural function

b)

Incongruences between the ideal and real self

c)

Incongruences with self-efficacy

d)

Incongruences in the superego’s ability to balance the id and ego