Mid-Semester Test - Social and Personality Psychology

What four components interact to form Freud's biopsychosocial theory?

According to Freud, what is the basis of our mind?

What does psychodynamics refer to and why is it important?

What can we understand by the idea of 'The Human Animal'?

What is often misunderstood about Freud's terminology?

Describe the complexities of the unconscious.

What are the three components of Freud's Structural Model of Personality (1923)?

How does Freud postulate that the superego develops?

What was Freud's explanation for anxiety?

What are the common characteristics of danger situations?

What is the importance of the ego?

How does Freud's approach relate to the development of personality?

What are some defence mechanisms, as outlined by Freud?

What is the purpose of defence mechanisms?

What are some of Freud's positive contributions to the field of psychology?

What are some criticisms of Freud's theories?

What does Freud suggest as the most desirable state for the mind?

What were the four key assumptions upon which John Watson's radical behaviourism was based?

What was the conclusion of Watson's work with Little Albert?

Evaluate Watson's work.

How did B.F. Skinner's work differ to Watson's form of behaviourism?

What is Thorndike's Law of Effect and how did Skinner utilise it?

Differentiate between the different types of reinforcement.

What is Premack's Principle?

What characterised Bandura's learning theory approach?

What are the three components making up the triad of Reciprocal Determinism?

How are these regulated?

What is self-efficacy and how is it developed?

What is human agency and what are its main features?

What effect does self-efficacy have on performance, motivation, emotions and mental health?

What is the usefulness of self-enhancing biases? How does this differ from a depressed person's outlook?

Evaluate Bandura's theory.

What are the four steps of modelling/observational learning?

What is vicarious reinforcement? What did Bandura emphasise about reinforcement?

What are the developmental phases of self-efficacy?

What typifies Bandura's approach?

What is the third force in psychology? What does it entail?

Explain Carl Rogers' Actualising Tendency.

In Roger's opinion, how does negative socialisation cause human problems?

What is the underlying cause of psychopathology, according to Rogers?

What is unconditional positive regard?

What are the characteristics of a full-functioning person?

Evaluate Rogers' Theory.

What was Maslow's basis for rejecting the scientific method?

Explain the three categories of Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs.

How did Maslow's explanation of antisocial behaviour differ from Rogers'?

What element of Maslow's theory is similar to social cognitive theory?

What was Maslow's opinion on 'normality'?

What motivates a need for self-actualisation?

What characterises a self-actualised person?

Evaluate Maslow's Theory.

What is the influence of Humanistic Psychology overall?

Differentiate between a type and a trait.

Outline Eysenck's approach.

What are the three personality dimensions Eysenck proposes?

What are Eysenck's four personality types?

What does Eysenck postulate as the basis of personality?

What is the function of ARAS system?

What biological component affects the neuroticism and normality dimension?

What was George Kelly's personal construct theory?

Explain the Experience Cycle.

What is the purpose of our personal constructs?

What is the Fundamental Postulate? How does this explain the Placebo Effect?

What are the seven corollaries?

What does Kelly say indicates and leads to psychopathology?

What form of therapy does this lend itself to?

What are some irrational thought patterns?

Describe Darwin's Theory of Natural Selection.

How does an evolutionary viewpoint inform psychology?

What is modularity of mind?

What are the characteristics of an evolved personality?

What are some points of Buss' Mating Strategy Hypothesis?

What does Evolutionary Theory contribute to the nature vs. nurture debate?

How does evolutionary theory explain psychopathology?

What are some critcisms of evolutionary theory?

What are some issues with interpretation of case studies?

Which theories fall under the free-will category, and which under that of determinism? What do these terms mean?

Which theories lean towards nature and which towards nurture? What is an interactionism?