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This set of Personality Development Multiple Choice Questions & Answers (MCQs) focuses on Personality Development Set 6

Q1 | In the normal distribution curve of intelligence test scores, the mean IQ score isset at
  • 110
  • 100
  • 90
  • what most people score
Q2 | In relation to the development of intelligence, the results of twin studies indicatethat
  • genetic factors are more important than environmental factors
  • environmental factors are more important than genetic factors
  • neither genetic nor environmental factors are important
  • both genetic and environmental factors are important
Q3 | If it is demonstrated that an intelligence test discriminates against certain ethnicgroups, then it can be said that the test
  • is reliable
  • has used standardisation sample
  • is valid
  • has culture bias
Q4 | If an intelligence test measures consistently what it is supposed to be measuringeach time it is used, then it is said that the test is
  • based on normal distribution
  • standardised
  • valid
  • reliable
Q5 | Weschler's intelligence tests were designed to test
  • verbal intelligence
  • non-verbal intelligence
  • crystallized and fluid intelligence
  • verbal and non-verbal intelligence
Q6 | Which of the following is not of Gardner's multiple intelligences?
  • spatial
  • linguistic
  • musical
  • creative
Q7 | What do the initials IQ stand for?
  • investment in education quotient
  • intellect quotient
  • intelligence question
  • intelligence quotient
Q8 | According to Spearman, what does 'g' stand for?
  • general knowledge
  • group intelligence
  • green\s intelligence criteria
  • general intelligence
Q9 | Which are the main components of Speaman's two factor theory of intelligence?
  • visual ability
  • spatial ability
  • specific intelligence and general intelligence
  • emotional abilities and cognitive abilities
Q10 | Approximately how many trait words for personality are there in the Englishlanguage?
  • 18000
  • 1000
  • 10000
  • 500
Q11 | When analyzing a past president to describe his personality by coding letters orspeeches he has written, you are using a process called
  • big five
  • content analysis
  • personality assumptions
  • cognitive approach
Q12 | Ancient Greeks hypothesized that there were four different personalitycharacteristic. they are
  • irritability, optimism, pessimism, calmness
  • calmness, depression, pessimism, irritability
  • depression, irritability, pessimism, optimism
  • irritability, depression, optimism, calmness
Q13 | In the Big Five personality dimensions, behaviours such as speaking fluently,displaying ambition, and exhibiting a high degree of intelligence is
  • agreeableness
  • openness
  • extraversion
  • conscientiousness
Q14 | Psychologists seek to understand Rob's personality through his thoughts, beliefsand their impact on his behaviour in certain situations. This is known as
  • trait approach
  • humanistic approach
  • cognitive approach
  • psychoanalytic approach
Q15 | Personality trait model that researches three factors: extraversion, neuroticism andpsychoticism, is called
  • eyesenck\s trait model
  • myers-briggs type indication
  • cattell\s 16 pf
  • big five
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 people\s thoughts and beliefs are central to personality
  • assumes that people are motivated by conflicts originating in childhood
Q17 | According to William Sheldon's theory of Personality, which one best describes aperson who is sensitive and intellectual?
  • conservative
  • endomorph
  • mesomorph
  • ectomorph
Q18 | Eyesenck originally developed ___, a highly researched factor theory ofpersonality.
  • interpersonal trait model
  • sixteen factor model
  • three factor model
  • big five
Q19 | The id, ego and superego can be best characterized as
  • part of neocortex
  • located in the occipital lobe
  • systems that make up personality
  • none of the above
Q20 | The attribution of one's own unacceptable urges or qualities to others
  • regression
  • repression
  • projection
  • denial
Q21 | Albert Bandura was a proponent of which perspective of personality?
  • psychoanalytic
  • social cognitive
  • behaviourist
  • humanistic
Q22 | People who rate high on the personality trait of ____ tend to be upbeat, optimisticand sociable.
  • introversion
  • neuroticism
  • extraversion
  • agreeableness
Q23 | A trait of personality that identifies extraversion, neuroticism, agreeableness,conscientiousness and openness to experience as the fundamental building blocks ofpersonailty is
  • five factor model
  • 16 personality factors
  • surface trait model
  • source trait model
Q24 | Personality characteristics or attributes that can easily be inferred from observablebehaviour are
  • traits
  • source traits
  • surface traits
  • self-concepts
Q25 | Proponents of trait theory include
  • karen horney, albert bandura
  • raymond cattell, hans eyesenck
  • alfred adler, raymond cattell
  • hans eyesenck, albert bandura