Psychology 1B
Mrs. Peterson-Guada
Quiz 1 Study Guide: Chapters 10 & 11
Chapter 10: Personality
1) What is personality? What is a personality theory?
2) What are the three different levels of awareness according to Freud?
3) What are the three main aspects to Freud’s personality structure? Be familiar with the pleasure principle and reality principle as well.
4) What are the major ego defense mechanisms Freud outlines? Why do they form and how do they play themselves out. (Exclude the defense mechanism “undoing”). What do all defense mechanism have in common?
5) What is Jung’s collective unconscious? How does this differ from the personal unconscious Freud discusses? What are archetypes? What is the shadow? What are anima and animus?
6) According to Karen Horney’s personality theory, what three personality orientations arise out of the basic anxiety that exists in all humans? Also, be familiar with Karen Horney’s idea of womb envy and how it contrasts with Freud’s idea of penis envy.
7) What is a trait? What are surface traits? Give examples. What are source traits? Give examples.
8) What are the five basic source traits to the five-factor model of personality or the “Big Five”?
Chapter 11: Social Psychology
1) What is social influence?
2) Be familiar with Solomon Asch’s work.
3) What is normative social influence and informative social influence?
4) How does culture affect conformity?
5) What is obedience?
6) Be familiar with Stanley Milgim’s Obedience to Authority Experiment.
7) What were some of the forces that influenced the subjects to continue obeying the experimenter’s orders.
8) What are conditions that undermine obedience?
9) What is altruism and prosocial behavior?
10) What are the factors that increase the likelihood of bystanders helping?
11) What are factors that decrease the likelihood of bystanders helping?
12) What is the bystander effect?
13) What is the diffusion of responsibility?