Deck 13: A: Theories of Personality

Question 1

When one thinks of "value judgment" in relation to personality,one is thinking about ____________.

A)soul
B)character
C)temperament
D)conscience

Answer 1

character

Question 2

Freud's refusal to believe his patients who said they were sexually molested as children is an example of _________.

A)the horn effect
B)unconscious motives
C)interviewer bias
D)the halo effect

Answer 2

interviewer bias

Question 3

You are about to undergo delicate brain surgery that requires great skill on the part of the surgeon.As the surgical team wheels you into the operating room,you hope the surgeon has a high level of _____.

A)ego
B)extraversion
C)self-efficacy
D)superego

Answer 3

self-efficacy

Question 4

One of the dangers of taking online personality tests is ____________.

A)they are all invalid
B)there is a small normative group
C)there are too few of them
D)there is no face-to-face contact to help put the results in perspective

Question 5

Adoption studies focusing on the heritability of traits have _____________.

A)disputed the findings of twin studies
B)been attacked for ethical reasons
C)confirmed what twin studies have shown
D)shown that twin studies have methods that need to be reexamined

Question 6

What is Freud's term for the primitive,biological side of personality?

A)id
B)ego
C)superego
D)preconscious

Question 7

What do Abraham Maslow's and Carl Rogers's theories have in common?

A)They are both stage theories.
B)They focus on unconscious motivation.
C)They believe that each human being is free to choose his or her own destiny.
D)They both fit in the learning/cognitive perspective.

Question 8

Jung believed that there were two levels to the unconscious mind,the personal and the ________.

A)collective
B)animus
C)anima
D)preconscious

Question 9

What did Raymond Cattell call the underlying traits that direct surface traits?

A)source traits
B)secondary traits
C)background traits
D)subordinate traits

Question 10

Probably the biggest problem with personality assessments by behaviorists is the _____.

A)observer effect
B)subject bias
C)experimenter bias
D)test bias