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People who demonstrate a high need for affiliation are motivated to spend time with others.
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Reason
People with a high need for affiliation have a strong desire to have an impact on others and evoke strong emotional responses in them.
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The superego in Freud’s structural model of personality develops after the ego and the id.
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Reason
The superego is usually in direct conflict with the id.
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Theory is an important contributor to the evidence-base of the scientific investigation of personality.
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Reason
Theory is used to generate hypotheses for scientific testing.
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The trait approach clearly describes how personality leads to behaviour
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Reason
Traits are descriptive.
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Trait theories propose that people differ in how much of a given characteristic they have.
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Reason
Trait theories are based on the concept that important personality constructs are fundamentally dimensional in nature.
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People high in the extraversion trait seek the company of others.
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Reason
Hans Eysenck proposed that extraverted people sought the company of others because they experience a higher level of baseline cortical arousal than introverted people.
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A public health campaign warning of the dangers of smoking is more likely to be effective for someone with a highly sensitive Behavioural Inhibition System.
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Reason
The Behavioural Inhibition System is more sensitive to threats than rewards.
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A good personality theory is one that is parsimonious.
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Reason
Parsimony refers to how comprehensive a theory is in explaining a given construct.
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Object relations theories are so called because they focus on the ways in which we relate to both human and non-human objects in the environment.
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Reason
An object is any human or non-human object in the environment to which one can become attached.
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Adler described the process of personality development as one that is underpinned by a fundamental motivation to progress from a state of inferiority to one of superiority.
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Reason
Adler believed that ego development, and thus personality development, involved a subjective feeling of increasing competence in dealing with the social world.
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Needs are internal directional forces that drive behaviour.
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Reason
Needs are reflective of an unsatisfactory internal state.
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Freud’s structural model of personality includes the superego, which acts as a conscience for the person.
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Reason
The superego balances the basic needs of the id and the ego.
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In object relations theories, the 'object' refers to:
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intrinsic goals.
the ego.
a person.
lifelong patterns. |
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Many neoanalytic theories emphasised:
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that there is no merit to traditional Freudian ideas.
the importance of the superego.
sexual functioning.
the important of the ego. |
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| the important of the ego. |
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According to Mahler, a child will experience _________ when the movement away from symbiosis occurs too quickly.
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insecure attachment
basic anxiety
separation anxiety
separation–individuation |
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People with ambivalent attachment report that falling in love:
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is almost impossible.
takes a lot of work.
is easy and can happen 'at first sight'.
is a waste of time. |
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| is easy and can happen 'at first sight'. |
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Unlike Freud, Erikson believed that personality development:
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proceeds in an orderly sequence of stages that everyone experiences.
continues to evolve throughout life.
is divided into the id, ego and superego.
None of these options. |
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| continues to evolve throughout life. |
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Psychosocial therapists attribute behavioural problems to difficulties in:
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resolving id–superego conflicts.
the development of a conscience.
relationships.
learning. |
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