Which of the Following Approaches to Personality Explains Depression by How

question 49

Multiple Choice

Which of the following approaches to personality explains depression by how situations are interpreted through the most highly accessible thoughts?

• A) Psychoanalytic approach
• B) Behavioral/social learning approach
• C) Trait approach
• D) Cognitive approach

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Definitions:

Psychodynamic Theory

A psychological perspective that emphasizes unconscious psychological processes (e.g., wishes, fears, and desires) and contends that childhood experiences are crucial in shaping adult personality.

Oedipus Complex

A psychoanalytic concept describing a child's feelings of desire for the opposite-sex parent and jealousy towards the same-sex parent.

Electra Complex

A Freudian concept involving a girl's psychosexual competition with her mother for possession of her father, seen as a counterpart to the Oedipus complex in boys.

Analytical Psychology

The study of the personal and collective unconscious developed by Carl Jung.