Blog

Hamid was filling out a job application and was required to disclose his home address, social security number, and email address. According to Freud, this kind of general information in our memory that can be easily recalled is stored in the __________ mind.

What is Freud’s term for the primitive side of personality that is motivated primarily by biological drives?

Esme and Chloe are having a conversation about men. “You know,” Chloe says, “I think my husband tries to annoy me! Even though he tries to do what I ask, I think that subconsciously he really enjoys ticking me off to see the reactions he’ll get. Freud must have been right!” Esme, who has just studied personality psychology in school, corrects Chloe by saying which of the following?

Which of the following is an example of subjective discomfort?

Edward is admitted to a mental institution because he hears voices talking to him that no one else can hear, and he sees demons attacking him, though no one else can see anything near him. Edward’s symptoms are known as __________.

Hollis has made a career of stealing older people’s retirement money by taking advantage of their trust and selling them phony retirement investments. Hollis explains that he has done nothing wrong-if these people were not so greedy, they would not be so eager to invest in his phony schemes. In his mind, his victims got exactly what they deserved. Hollis’s behavior and attitude are typical of someone with __________ personality disorder.

Personality trait theorist Raymond Cattell used the statistical technique called __________.

Keiko has a tendency to disregard the compliments that people give her about her work, and she fails to realize her own skills and talents. Beck would say that Keiko engages in __________.

According to Freud, material that we are not currently aware of but that can be easily recalled is in the __________ mind.

Some drugs that combat depression work by __________.