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In Judith Harris's account of peer influence on personality, this concept prompts the developing child to compete with others in order to establish his or her unique identity and contributions.

A) status system
B) socialization system
C) gene-environment system
D) conformity system

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Question 32

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This is currently the most widely accepted trait model of personality.

A) five-factor model
B) two-factor model
C) Eysenck-Cattel model
D) OCEAN model

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According to Freud, this is the only part of the mind that exists at the beginning of human life.

According to the ___________model developed by Walter Mischel and Yuichi Shoda, each person possesses stable patterns of interaction between traits and situations

Personality is most commonly described in terms of a set of traits. Describe what traits are, and compare the two-factor theory with the Big Five model of personality

For many people, goals, values, beliefs, social roles, and plans may change considerably over the life span. This aspect of personality has been termed

The "Big Five" personality dimensions that make up the five-factor model can be expressed in this acronym.

Although young children clearly do become possessive of their parents, no evidence has been found to substantiate the universal existence of an Oedipus complex as Freud described i

All of the following are qualities of personality, EXCEPT:

Which of the following best illustrates what a participant must do when administered the Rorschach test?

To say that one's personality is organized means that

Each psychosexual stage highlights a specific part of the child's body that is particularly sensitive to pleasurable stimulation. Collectively they are referred to as

Statements that describe Americans as rude, arrogant, and self-centered, or that describe Canadians as friendly and hospitable, are called _________stereotype

Carl Rogers used this term to mean that those around a child during his or her formative years must truly listen and hear the child, without passing judgment.

Tests such as the MMPI-2 are referred to as "objective" because they are

Critics charge that the standards for scoring the Rorschach are not valid and may cause psychologically normal people to appear to have serious psychological disturbances

The term grand theory has been applied to a few old theories of personality, like Sigmund Freud's theory, because those theories

According to this theory, self-esteem acts as a psychological buffer against the pervasive general anxiety all human beings feel when faced with the knowledge of their own inevitable death

Freud used this term to refer to the part of the mind that was totally out of the range of a person's awareness.

This perspective on personality, pioneered by Gordon Allport, was the starting point for the first attempts to build truly empirical, research-based theories of personality.