Exam 7: Using Personality Traits to Understand Behavior

Sally is a strong proponent of the lexical hypothesis. Where would she likely begin her search for the essential traits of personality?

Which trait is associated with attractiveness?

Sammy is concerned about whether relatively extraverted adolescents become relatively extraverted adults. Sammy studies what kind of personality stability?

The ________ approach to personality usually assumes that all people can be characterized by points on a continuous score of measurement; the ________ approach to personality suggests that people might differ in kind more than in degree.

According to Jack Block, ego ________ gets people into trouble, but ego ________ gets people out of trouble.

According to the text, which three personality types are the most replicable?

The Big Five are believed to be orthogonal factors of personality. What does orthogonal mean?

Cross-cultural research on the Big Five suggests that ________.

A researcher who tries to discover the most important or basic personality traits that exist is taking a ________ approach.

Describe the personality correlates of political orientation. How were these studies conducted? What are the major concerns that might arise when studying potential connections between personality and politics?

Which Big Five domain captures a tendency to experience positive emotions?

Ego control was related to increased delay of gratification in boys but not in girls.

Which of the following traits is largely independent of integrity tests?

According to Eysenck, the trait of psychoticism is a blend of aggressiveness, creativeness, and impulsiveness.

In order to alleviate the effects of bias in employment testing, employers might want to use ________ because they typically do not show racial or ethnic differences.

According to one survey of employers, seven out of the top eight qualities sought in new employees involved ________.

When compared to high self-monitors, people who score low in self-monitoring tend to ________.

Which of the following is NOT a dimension that would likely show differences between liberals and conservatives?

What is the difference between a trait approach and a typological approach to personality? What are some of the common personality types identified by researchers? What are the limitations to the typological approach? What are personality types useful for?

Research on ________ addresses important questions concerning the way that inner reality and the private self relate to external reality and the self as presented to others.