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The occurrence of so-called copycat crimes where someone hijacks an airliner after seeing a movie about a hijacking provides anecdotal evidence for


A) Bandura's social cognitive theory.
B) Skinner's operant conditioning theory.
C) Freud's psychoanalytic theory.
D) Adler's individual psychology.

E) A) and C)
F) A) and B)

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Terror management theory proposes that self-esteem and faith in a cultural world view shield people from the anxiety associated with their mortality.

A) True
B) False

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The largely unconscious reactions used to protect a person from unpleasant emotions such as anxiety and guilt are


A) coping mechanisms.
B) defense mechanisms.
C) offense mechanisms.
D) id mechanisms.

E) A) and B)
F) None of the above

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According to Carl Rogers,people with highly ____________________ self-concepts are especially likely to be plagued by recurrent anxiety.

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The idea that ambiguous materials can serve as a blank screen onto which people impose their characteristic concerns,conflicts and desires is termed the


A) self-report hypothesis.
B) projective hypothesis.
C) self-revealing hypothesis.
D) objective hypothesis.

E) None of the above
F) C) and D)

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The concept of personality is used to explain the ____________________ in a person's behavior over time and the ____________________ among people reacting to the same situation.

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Dr.Hawkins believes that the big five personality traits stand out as important dimensions of personality because those traits have significant adaptive implication is largely determined by an individual's genetic makeup.Dr.Hawkins's views are similar to the view of personality put forward by


A) B. F. Skinner.
B) Walter Mischel.
C) Carl Jung.
D) David Buss.

E) A) and B)
F) B) and C)

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Which psychologist's theory of personality uses conditioning principles and inherited differences in physiological functioning to explain how heredity is linked to personality?


A) David Buss
B) Hans Eysenck
C) B. F. Skinner
D) Walter Mischel

E) C) and D)
F) A) and B)

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On first learning about the different theoretical perspectives on personality,many people like the views of the humanistic theorists best.Why do you think this is? Are these reasons sound,scientific criteria for evaluating a theoretical perspective on personality?

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Briefly describe the strengths and weaknesses of the behavioral approach to personality.

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Esteban has a job that pays well and he recently moved to a neighborhood where there is 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 Esteban is MOST likely motivated by


A) aesthetic needs.
B) belongingness and love needs.
C) esteem needs.
D) the need for self-actualization.

E) All of the above
F) B) and D)

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Freud believed that during the phallic stage,children develop erotically tinged desires for


A) the parent of the opposite sex.
B) the parent of the same sex.
C) playmates.
D) siblings.

E) All of the above
F) C) and D)

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Research suggests that highly narcissistic people have very stable and secure self-esteem.

A) True
B) False

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Four-year-old Sam has erotically tinged desires for his mother and also feels hostility toward his father.Freud would conclude that Sam is experiencing the


A) Oedipal complex.
B) phallic complex.
C) identification complex.
D) genital complex.

E) B) and C)
F) All of the above

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According to Hans Eysenck,____________________ involves being anxious,tense,moody,and low in self-esteem.

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The Oedipal complex,of such great importance in Freud's thinking,occurs during the ____________________ stage of psychosexual development.

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Five-year-old Samuel often tells his older sister: "I can't wait to grow up,so I can marry mommy." Samuel is most likely in the stage of personality development that Freud referred to as the


A) anal stage.
B) oral stage.
C) phallic stage.
D) latency stage.

E) B) and D)
F) C) and D)

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The fact that there are literally dozens of insightful theories of personality illustrates which of the following unifying themes of your textbook?


A) Psychology is empirical.
B) Psychology is theoretically diverse.
C) Psychology evolves in a sociohistorical context.
D) Our behavior is shaped by our cultural heritage.

E) All of the above
F) A) and B)

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____ is a statistical procedure used by researchers to identify closely related clusters of variables.


A) Chi-square
B) Factor analysis
C) Deviation analysis
D) Analysis of variance

E) B) and D)
F) None of the above

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According to the evolutionary approach to personality,humans have evolved special sensitivity to variations in the ability to cooperate and collaborate with others,which is closely associated with the Big Five personality trait of ____________________.

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