Deck 8: Section 3: Personality Theories and Assessment

Question 1

Which personality test uses True-False items and generates a profile of the test taker on 10 clinical scales?

A) MMPI-2
B) Rorschach Inkblot Test
C) TAT
D) All of these.

Answer 1

MMPI-2

Question 2

After losing a tennis match, which comment is a person MOST likely to make if self-serving bias is operating?

A) "I should have practiced more."
B) "I made too many unforced errors."
C) "My opponent had the advantage of playing on his home court."
D) "My mental concentration was lacking."

Answer 2

"My opponent had the advantage of playing on his home court."

Question 3

Which trait dimension is one of the "Big Five" personality dimensional labels?

A) aggressiveness
B) effectiveness
C) cheerfulness
D) openness

Answer 3

openness

Question 4

Imagine a patient who was just diagnosed with a serious illness. According to Julian Rotter, if the patient has a strong internal locus of control, what is the patient's MOST likely response to the situation?

A) "Whatever happens, it's in God's hands."
B) "I'll just do what the doctor says and trust his judgment."
C) "Whether I make it or not is just a matter of luck."
D) "I want to learn about this illness and work to fight it."

Question 5

Inferiority complex is to basic anxiety as _____ is to _____.

A) Adler; Horney
B) Horney; Adler
C) Jung; Horney
D) Horney; Jung

Question 6

Which theoretical approach uses factor analysis to determine the number of factors necessary to describe human personality?

A) the psychoanalytic approach
B) the trait approach
C) the humanistic approach
D) the social-cognitive approach

Question 7

In Maslow's hierarchy of needs, _____ needs are at the bottom of the hierarchy, and _____ needs are at the top.

A) physiological; self-actualization
B) self-actualization; physiological
C) safety; belonging and love
D) belonging and love; safety

Question 8

Which neo-Freudian theorist proposed "striving for superiority" as the primary motivation for personality development?

A) Carl Jung
B) Karen Horney
C) Alfred Adler
D) Erik Erikson

Question 9

"Self-efficacy" is the answer to which question?

A) What is the fullest realization of a person's potential?
B) What is a sense of one's effectiveness in dealing with a particular situation?
C) What is the perception that you control your own fate?
D) What is the tendency to make attributions so that one can view oneself favorably?

Question 10

A woman has unacceptable feelings of hatred toward her mother, but lavishes attention and love on her. Freud would say that this is an example of _____.

A) projection
B) reaction formation
C) displacement
D) sublimation

Question 11

In Rogers's self theory, which contributes greatly to one's self-actualization?

A) conditional positive regard
B) unconditional positive regard
C) an internal locus of control
D) an external locus of control

Question 12

According to Freud, the _____, the executive of the personality, is located _____.

A) ego; entirely in the conscious
B) ego; in all three levels of awareness
C) superego; entirely in the unconscious
D) superego; in all three levels of awareness

Question 13

Which one of Eysenck's three personality factors is NOT one of the "Big Five" factors?

A) openness
B) neuroticism
C) psychoticism
D) agreeableness

Question 14

Glenn's room looks like a tornado hit it. He is incredibly messy. His car is filled with old pizza boxes, last month's newspapers, and dirty laundry. According to Freud, Glenn is MOST likely fixated at the _____ stage.

A) phallic
B) oral
C) anal
D) genital

Question 15

According to social-cognitive personality theorists, which is LEAST likely to lead to depression?

A) low sense of self-esteem
B) self-serving bias
C) external locus of control
D) learned helplessness