Psychology: A Self-Teaching Guide

What term refers exclusively to female homosexual behavior? a. Gender identity disorder b. Transsexualism c. Lesbianism d. XX-o ...

190 PSYCHOLOGY incest lesbianism limerence loss of libido male erectile disorder male orgasmic disorder masochism multiple orgas ...

13 Personality: Psychological Factors That Make You an Individual 191 PREVIEW QUIZ True or False TFOnly you have your particula ...

Objectives After completing this chapter, you will be able to define personality; describe several type-trait theories; explain ...

(a) A workable definition of personality is that it is the constellation of unique to the individual. (b) The is the conscious “ ...

ever, he is credited for being a fairly astute observer of human behavior. The four types, if not entirely accurate, do have som ...

reflecting, meditating, creative writing, remembering, composing music, day- dreaming, and spending time alone. These behaviors ...

A third bipolar trait is humble-assertive. A person manifesting the first extreme of the trait will tend to be passive, easily c ...

(a) According to Freud, what part of the personality is inborn and present at birth? (b) The ego helps the individual tolerate f ...

so. This can’t be happening.” Examples include refusing to believe that the car is out of gas, that one has a serious illness, o ...

Fantasytakes place when the ego imagines successes or accomplishments that are not presently obtainable in actual day-to-day liv ...

“Don’t. That’s not right.” Also, as already indicated, the ego defense mechanism called repression populates the unconscious dom ...

punishing, and tend to seek opportunities for others to be abusive to them. It is clear that in some cases identification with t ...

teers for hazardous duty in the Army. Using the defense mechanism of compensation, he is out to prove to himself and the world t ...

Learned Aspects of Personality: The Effects of Experience As already noted, Horney recognized the importance of learning in shap ...

abuse of alcohol and self-destructive tendencies are detailed in the biography Goodnight, Sweet Princeby his friend, the author ...

(b) The viewpoint recognizes that the individual can think, reflect, and decide. (c) Maslow asserted that human beings have a gr ...

that what the subject says he or she perceives the blots to be are in fact reflections of unconscious motives. The subject is “p ...

The Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI)is a self- reporting, paper-and-pencil test with a group of 550 statements ...

Hysteria.This scale measures a tendency to develop conversion disordersin which anxiety is converted into a physical symptom su ...