Question 1

Which of the following was developed in order to measure the Big Five dimensions?

Accepted Answer

A)  California Psychologicalventory 
B)  NEO Personalityventory 
C)  Thematic Apperception Test 
D)  Minnesota Multiphasic Personalityventory

Question 2

What term did Cattell use for the traits that underlie the surface traits, that make up the most basic personality structure, and that cause behaviour?

Accepted Answer

A)  Cardinal traits 
B)  Central traits 
C)  Common traits 
D)  Source traits

Question 3

Describe trait theories of personality?

Accepted Answer

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Question 4

Gordon Allport identified two main categories of traits; they were

Accepted Answer

A)  combining and golden. 
B)  unique and separate. 
C)  group and personal. 
D)  common anddividual

Question 5

According to Freud, what kind of influence do fixations at the psychosexual stages have on the development of personality?

Accepted Answer

A)  Some 
B)  Major 
C)  None 
D)  Little

Question 6

In the psychoanalytic system of the personality, where are the untamed passions and biological urges held?

Accepted Answer

A)  Superego 
B)  Conscious 
C)  Ego 
D)  Id

Question 7

Forgetting a traumatic childhood experience would be an example of

Accepted Answer

A)  displacement. 
B)  sublimation. 
C)  rationalization. 
D)  repression

Question 8

The definition of the term personality includes which aspect?

Accepted Answer

A)  Idiosyncratic features which cannot be measured 
B)  Unique patterns of behaving 
C)  Unique features for which measurement devices exist 
D)  Unique patterns of thinking

Question 9

What personality test consists of ambiguous black-and-white drawings of human figures in various situations, which the subject is asked to describe?

Accepted Answer

A)  Minnesota Multiphasic Personalityventory 
B)  Thematic Apperception Test 
C)  Rorschachkblot Test 
D)  California Psychologicalventory

Question 10

Which of the following terms did Jung use to refer to the store of images and ideas that we inherit from our ancestors and share with all human beings?

Accepted Answer

A)  Collective unconscious 
B)  Primal representation 
C)  Psychic structure 
D)  Racial memory

Question 11

Compare and contrast a person with an external locus of control and a person with an internal locus of control. Explain what is meant by both an internal and an external locus of control. Describe how people with an internal locus of control and those with an external locus would react if they heard hurricane warnings for their city.

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Question 12

Freud believed that the few people who reach the genital stage of psychosexual development without having fixations at earlier stages, can achieve the state of psychological health that he equated with the ability to

Accepted Answer

A)  remain at the genital stage. 
B)  love and work 
C)  love and party. 
D)  work and play.

Question 13

Which of the following statements is not true of defence mechanisms?

Accepted Answer

A)  They help defend the ego against anxiety. 
B)  To be effective, they must operate on an unconscious level. 
C)  Theyvolve a distortion the way we perceive reality. 
D)  Their usedicates abnormal behaviour

Question 14

The superego is like a very strong ego and is devoted to controlling id impulses.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 15

Dr. Paget is doing an assessment of a client. She is asking a series of questions, based on the responses of the person she is interviewing. Which personality assessment technique is she using?

Accepted Answer

A)  Observational method 
B)  Structuredterview 
C)  Unstructuredterview 
D)  A projective test

Question 16

The best way to study the relative contribution of heredity and environment is to compare

Accepted Answer

A)  identical twins reared together and apart 
B)  adopted children to their adoptive and biological parents. 
C)  identical and fraternal twins. 
D)  fraternal twins reared together and apart.

Question 17

Freud claimed that the hostility of little boys toward their fathers results in

Accepted Answer

A)  compulsive orderliness. 
B)  displaced aggression. 
C)  castration anxiety 
D)  feelings ofsecurity.

Question 18

The defence mechanism in which the energy from an unacceptable impulse is redirected into a socially desirable form is called

Accepted Answer

A)  rationalization. 
B)  projection. 
C)  reaction formation. 
D)  sublimation

Question 19

In the five-factor theory, the dimension that contrasts sociable, outgoing and active traits with withdrawn, passive and quiet traits is called

Accepted Answer

A)  openness to experience. 
B)  neuroticism. 
C)  conscientiousness. 
D)  extraversion

Question 20

Compare and contrast Allport and Cattell on their classification of traits.

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Exam 11: Personality Theory and Assessment