Exam 7: Using Personality Traits to Understand Behavior

What are the essential traits according to Hans Eysenck?

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

Sally is seriously depressed at age 18. Research using the Q-sort suggests that as a child, Sally probably would have been described as ________.

Stage actors tend to score low on the self-monitoring scale.

Which trait is linked to reduced creativity in group problem-solving tasks?

The lower your score is on measures of psychological health and well-being, the ________.

People who adjust their behavior to best fit the situation are called ________, and people whose behavior is guided by their personality are called ________.

Which dimension of personality assessed by the Narcissistic Personality Inventory appears to be the one most responsible for obnoxious and arrogant behavior?

A researcher using factor analysis to identify basic traits is likely to favor the ________ approach.

What are essential traits according to Jack Block?

What is another name for ego resiliency?

The rank-order stability of personality is highest in which of the following periods of development?

Andy is concerned about whether younger adults are much happier than older adults. Andy studies what kind of personality stability?

According to recent research about personality and energy drink preferences, those high in self-monitoring would likely prefer which brand of energy drink in a consumer taste test study?

Which essential trait theorist developed a model with the strongest ties to psychoanalytic ideas?

Hospitalized mental patients tend to get low scores on the self-monitoring scale.

How were the Big Five discovered? Define and describe each of the Big Five trait domains. What essential questions about strangers do these dimensions address?

Which trait is associated with positive first impressions but more negative impressions in longer-term relationships?

Which of the Big Five traits appears to have the most inconsistency in terms of cross-cultural replication?

Integrity tests are often used by employers in personnel selection.