According to the psychoanalytic view, personality differences associated with gender are due to
A) girls and boys experiencing psychosexual stages of development differently.
B) girls having a stronger superego than boys.
C) boys needing to overcome many more stages than girls.
D) boys being expected to be aggressive and girls being expected to be subservient.
E) differences in the toilet training of boys versus girls.
Question 2A phobia is
A) an Oedipal complex where snake envy is king.
B) an excessive or incapacitating fear.
C) the third stage of psychosexual development.
D) a theory based on dream imagery.
Question 3An assessment instrument devised by George Kelly, the __________ allows the person's own understanding of personality to emerge through the process of ranking traits and making comparisons.
Fill in the blank(s) with correct word
Question 4According to Erikson, identity derives from
a. a melding of private and social self-conceptions.
b. a resolution of the Oedipal conflict.
c. the willingness to share the most personal aspects of oneself with others.
d. the opportunity to explore the environment.
Question 5When a person experiences enough events of a given type, they tend to form scripts.
Indicate whether the statement is true or false
Question 6Directional selection occurs when an intermediate value of some characteristic is more adaptive than the value at either end of the distribution.
Indicate whether the statement is true or false
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