A. physical gratification
B. existential anxiety
C. striving for superiority
D. the need for power
Related Mcqs:
- Alfred Adler stressed what in his personality theory?
A. the environment
B. collective unconscious
C. conflict
D. striving for superiority - Adler is to individual psychology as Jung is to:
A. collective psychology
B. existential psychology
C. depth psychology
D. analytical psychology - From the perspective of the life-span psychologist, life stages are important because:
A. they represent the outcome of major biological changes
B. they present a set of developmental tasks to be mastered
C. they provide insight into the values and aspirations of particular cultures
D. their beginning and end a perfectly correlated with chronological age - The last stage in Erikson’s theory of psychosocial development where in a person reflects on their life is ______________?
A. productivity vs stagnation
B. integrity vs despair
C. competence vs inferiority
D. pride vs regret - An elderly person who can look back on life with satisfaction and reminisce with a sense of completion has attained Erikson’s stage of ________________?
A. generativity
B. intimacy
C. isolation
D. integrity - A person who has an extreme lack of self – confidence and who allows others to run his or her life is said to have a(n)________personality.
A. dependent
B. narcissistic
C. paranoid
D. antisocial - Education broadly interpreted at_______and continues throughout a person’s life span:
A. Birth
B. Home
C. childhood
D. Youth age - _______refers to a learned negative attitude toward a person based on their person’s membership in a particular group.
A. Normative justice
B. Prejudice
C. Discrimination
D. The Asch effect - A tone-deaf person would probably not be able to tell two musical notes apart unless they were very different. We could say that this person has a relatively large:
A. just noticeable difference
B. relative threshold
C. absolute threshold
D. detection threshold - Chomsky suggested that a person’s unique experiences with a language are most likely to influence the________of that person’s spoken sentences.
A. surface structure
B. linguistic determinism
C. functional fixedness
D. belief perseverance
