Personality Set 1
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This set of Organisational Behaviour Multiple Choice Questions & Answers (MCQs) focuses on Personality Set 1
Q1 | Which strategy IMPROVES the reliability of a research design?
- make the test shorter
- standardize all circumstances under which the test is administered, including instructions.
- delete all items from the test that do not correlate with the other items.
- b and c only
Q2 | Which of the statements below are FALSE?
- Since Personality psychology has competing viewpoints, it is considered a paradigm.
- Science judges the truth of statements based on the empirical methoD:)
- Personality encompasses diverse qualities of individuals (E:)g., biology, social influences, childhood experiences, etC:))
- Science demands that hypotheses be discarded if they are not confirmed by observation.
Q3 | Which range best targets the number of "Central Traits" that have been identified?
- 08-May
- 5-200
- 17,000-18,000
- 19,000-20,000
Q4 | Which of the following examples is most likely to have a negative correlation?
- Number of hours spent studying and test scores
- Amount of violent television viewed and number of aggressive acts committed
- How many times the subject smiles per day and their unhappiness level
- Weight and height
Q5 | he Ancient Greeks hypothesized that there were 4 different personality characteristics. The fourcharacteristics are
- irritability, optimism, pessimism, calmness
- calmness, depression, pessimism, irritability
- depression, irritability, pessimism, optimism
- irritability, depression, optimism, calmness
Q6 | Sheldon proposed three different types of traits. The traits that would best describe a footballplayer would be:
- mesomorph
- endomorph
- ectomorph
- actinomorphy
Q7 | Which of the following would be an example of a correlational strategy of academic research?
- testing a hypothesis with an experimental group
- having a group fill out questionnaires
- using the scientific method
- a clinician diagnosing his/her patient
Q8 | If you had a correlation of positive one, the related items would be:
- completely unrelated
- moderately correlated
- very highly correlated
- identical
Q9 | In analyzing data, measurements are sometimes categorical, for example "smiles" or "frowns". Thistype of measurement is called
- qualitative measurement
- quantitative measurement
- reliability
- validity
Q10 | If you say that a movie is really good and you like it you would also assume that your best friendwould like it. What implicit personality theory is this?
- stereotype
- perceived similarity
- Halo effect
- observer bias
Q11 | From the Big Five personality dimensions, behaviours such as speaking fluently, displayingambition, and exhibiting a high degree of intelligence is
- Agreeableness
- Openness
- Extraversion
- Conscientiousness
Q12 | Psychologists seek to understand Robs personality through his thoughts, beliefs and their impacton his behavior in certain situations. This is known as the
- trait approach
- humanistic approach
- cognitive approach
- psychoanalytic approach
Q13 | Devins personality is researched through 3 factors: extraversion, neuroticism and psychoticism.This personality trait model is called
- Eysencks Trait Model
- Myers-Briggs Type Indicator
- Smith Model
- Cattells Sixteen factor Model
Q14 | What type of personality focuses on how people adapt to everyday life and intervenes to improvethe lives of individuals through therapy?
- Academic psychology
- Clinical Psychology
- Practical Psychology
- Applied Psychology
Q15 | Which of the following would be a phenomenological approach to the study of personality?
- emphasize subjects feelings
- emphasize subjects thoughts
- emphasize the meaning that people ascribe to events, not simply the objective events themselves
- All of the above
Q16 | What is the trait approach to personality?
- Assumes that people are motivated by unconscious emotional conflicts
- Assumes that each individual has stable personality characteristics
- Assumes that peoples thoughts and beliefs are central to personality
- Assumes that people have an innate tendency to become self-actualized
Q17 | William Sheldon suggested that body build was associated with personality traits. Which one bestdescribes a person whos sensitive and intellectual?
- conservative
- neurotic
- endomorph
- ectomorph
Q18 | Natali . What is the difference between nomothetic and idiographic approaches to personality?
- nomothetic approaches seek to find generalized laws of behaviour that help us classify people in terms of their similarities, while idiographic approaches seek to find what makes people unique
- nomothetic approaches view only the differences between people, while ideographic approaches seek to find similarities
- ideographic approaches try to categorize people, while nomothetic approaches don’t
- None of them
Q19 | D What is one of the main assumptions of the trait approach to personality?
- traits are not very stable across the lifespan and are therefore weak predictors of personality
- traits stay relatively stable across the lifespan
- traits change drastically around the age of 6 years, which has to be taken into account when predicting personality
- None of them
Q20 | Which of the following is NOT given as a criticism of the Type A/B personality theory?
- most of the research on Type A personality is purely correlational
- there is a lack of cross-cultural research
- the questionnaires that claim to measure Type A personality have poor internal reliability scores
- None of them
Q21 | What is meant by ‘interactionism’ in personality psychology?
- the view that the interaction between people shapes their personalities
- the view that there is reciprocal interaction between personality, situations and the environment
- the view that children should interact with other children as much as possible to shape a personality that will benefit them in their later lives
- None of them
Q22 | There are ———- trait dimensions did Cattell propose?
- 2
- 3
- 16
- 117
Q23 | Which of the following are the aim of behavioural genetics is to learn about:
- the possibility of eradicating behavioural problems in children
- the ability of animals to learn the language
- the extent to which geneticists can modify people’s behaviour
- the genetic and environmental influences on human behaviour
Q24 | Which of the following characteristics describe someone who, according to Maslow, is selfactualized?
- creativity
- confidence
- Spontaneity
- all of the above
Q25 | Which of the following is not a defence mechanism?
- ingratiation
- regression
- projection
- Sublimation