Personality Psychology: The Traits That Follow You Through Life
What personality is, where it comes from, how it is measured, and how much people really change from youth to old age.
Personality Psychology · 50 questions
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1. In Freud's model of the mind, which part of personality operates on the 'reality principle', balancing urges against the real world?
- The ego
- The superego
- The id
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Answer: The ego
The id seeks immediate pleasure, the superego holds moral ideals, and the ego mediates, finding realistic ways to meet needs.
2. Freud believed an adult who is extremely orderly, stubborn and stingy had become fixated at which psychosexual stage?
- The anal stage
- The oral stage
- The phallic stage
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Answer: The anal stage
Freud linked these traits to conflicts over toilet training; today the theory is seen as historically important but poorly supported.
3. Someone who secretly resents a sibling behaves in an exaggeratedly sweet way toward them. Which defense mechanism is this?
- Reaction formation
- Sublimation
- Simple denial
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Answer: Reaction formation
Reaction formation turns an unacceptable feeling into its opposite, often in an overdone form that hints at the hidden impulse.
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