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jasdeep_brar · **on:** Jun 21, 2018

Allport believed that emotionally healthy adults were:

a. no longer victimized by what happened to them in their early years.
b. guided primarily by unconscious forces of the superego.
c. those in whom the personality is undifferentiated from childhood experiences.
d. those who avoid self-objectification.

Question 2

Allport suggested all of the following as criteria for a mature, emotionally healthy personality except:

a. a resilient id.
c. self-objectification.
b. the extension of the sense of self.
d. a unifying philosophy of life.

katara · **Reply #1 on:** Jun 21, 2018

Answer to Question 1

ANS: A
FEEDBACK: Allport described six criteria for normal, mature, emotionally healthy adult personalities. By meeting these six criteria, adults can be described as emotionally healthy and functionally autonomous, independent of childhood motives. As a result, they cope with the present and plan for the future without being victimized by what happened to them in their early years.

Answer to Question 2

ANS: A
FEEDBACK: Allport described six criteria for normal, mature, emotionally healthy adult personalities. They include the following: (1) mature adults extend their sense of self to people and activities beyond the self, (2) mature adults have a sense of humor and self-objectification, and (3) mature adults subscribe to a unifying philosophy of life.