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  1. The _____ approach to personality development emphasizes conscious awareness, beliefs, expectations and goals and how these factors relate to behavior and performance.

  2. Which perspective supports the idea that physiological processes influence personality? biological __________ _________ psychologists explore a person's ability to reason; to think about the past, present, and future; and to reflect on the self, while incorporating principles from behaviorism.

  3. Identify a true statement about Walter Mischel's view on personality. He believed that the human sexual drive was the main determinant of personality development. He stated that the experiences of a common past have made a deep, permanent impression on the human mind.

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    Personality is thought to be .
    short term and easily changed
    a pattern of short-term characteristics
    unstable and short term
    What makes a personal quality part of someone’s personality?
    How might the common expression “daddy’s girl” be rooted in the idea of the Electra complex?
    Describe the personality of someone who is fixated at the anal stage.
    Describe the difference between extroverts and introverts in terms of what is energizing to each.
    Discuss Horney’s perspective on Freud’s concept of penis envy.
    Compare the personalities of someone who has high self-efficacy to someone who has low self- efficacy.

    How would you describe your own personality? Do you think that friends and family would describe you in much the same way? Why or why not?

  4. a. the changing emphasis of sexual desire throughout childhoodb. the interaction and conflict among the id, ego, and superegoc. the personality characteristics that change throughout a person's lifed. the adult interest in sex and aggression as personality constructs.

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    According to psychoanalytic theory, what is the structure of personality, and what are the stages of personality development? How is the ego protected from disturbing unconscious desires? How did Freud’s followers revise his theory, and what are the limitations of psychoanalytic theory? 12.

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  7. The research literature provides a fairly clear picture about how personality changes across the lifespan, but vigorous debate continues about the degree to which stability and change in personality stems from intrinsic biological maturation, major life transitions and associated changes in social roles, or self-initiated desires to change ...