Personality Study Guide
If you don’t pass this test… was it your fault or the situation?
You’ll get an A if you know this stuff… there are other things on the test but here are the bare bones need-to-know things. Your best bet,
read the book, read Psychlopedia, watch the videos, come to the review sessions. If a SHEET, TEST or VIDEO is listed beside the term you
should review the sheet that came with that and remember the video be able to explain what we did in class.
Be able to recognize examples of each of the following
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Sigmund Freud: Freudian Psychoanalysis
 The iceberg metaphor
 Conscious/Unconscious: The ego is conflicted between the impulses of the Id
and the values of the superego.
 Memories of bad experiences are made unconscious by repression
 Libido, Penis Envy, Oedipus Complex,
 Identification
 Ego Defense Mechanisms
 Look at the wall of drawings we did in class, know them all.
 Psychic Determinism
o Projective tests: What do they do?
 Rorschach Inkblot
 Thematic Apperception Test
o Neo-Freudian Psychologists
 Personal & Collective unconscious, what is the difference?
 Carl Jung
 Collective Unconscious …Archetypes.
 Opposing types
 Karen Horney
 Neurotic Needs
 Alfred Adler
 Inferiority complex & Compensation
Humanistic & Trait Theorists
o Gordon Allport: Traits, how cardinal traits are different
o Abraham Maslow
 Hierarchy of Needs
 Self-Actualizing Personalities
o Carl Rogers:
 Fully functioning persons
 Conditional vs. Unconditional regard
What is a big difference between the Humanistic psychologists and the Psychodynamic?
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Positive Psychology
Social-Cognitive theories
o Albert Bandura
 Observational Learning (aka social learning theory)
 Reciprocal Determinism
o Julian Rotter
 Locus of control
Personality Testing
o Validity & reliability
o Myers-Briggs: Opposing types
o MMPI-2
Big 5 personality Traits: OCEAN: Openness, Conscientiousness, Extraversion, Agreeableness, Neuroticism
Person – Situation Controversy & the Fundamental Attribution Error