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This set of Personality Development Multiple Choice Questions & Answers (MCQs) focuses on Personality Development Set 2

Q1 | What aspect(s) of personality are believed to have evolved in humans?
  • overeating
  • quick response to danger
  • aggression in men
  • all of the above
Q2 | People high in the trait of ________ are more easily conditioned with emotional stimuli.
  • neuroticism
  • extraversion
  • psychoticism
  • agreeableness
Q3 | The research strategy for assessing personality stability that studies two or more groups assumed to be at different stages of development is
  • stratification
  • cross-sectional
  • binominal
  • longitudinal
Q4 | _________ vs. _________ achieved a high .75 on the heritability of Cattell?s 16 PF.
  • relaxed vs. tense
  • conservative vs. liberal
  • concrete vs. abstract
  • sober vs. enthusiastic
Q5 | Which of the following is NOT one of the Erikson?s stages of psychosocial development?
  • industry vs. inferiority
  • intimacy vs. isolation
  • trust vs. mistrust
  • life vs. death
Q6 | A baby being measured for attachment using Ainsworth?s Strange-situation procedure appears to be extremely clinging and attached to the mother?s side when she comes back into the room. This baby would be classified as
  • secure
  • anxious
  • happy
  • avoidant
Q7 | Generativity is best described as
  • part of erikson?s later adulthood stage
  • a desire to help others
  • the ability to make general observations
  • both a and b
Q8 | Ainsworth?s three types of attachment in an infant?s "strange situation" are
  • secure, avoidant, anxious
  • secure, avoidant, achievement
  • generativity, avoidant, achievement
  • secure, active, anxious
Q9 | The part of personality development where one seems to have no evidence of exploration and also does not have a clear identity is
  • identity diffusion
  • identity foreclosure
  • moratorium
  • identity achievement
Q10 | According to James Marcia?s identity statuses, which of the following is NOT an identity status?
  • identity foreclosure
  • identity association
  • moratorium
  • identity diffusion
Q11 | George is in preschool. His teachers notice that he is hyper?likes to jump around a lot and cannot sit still during nap time. George is probably
  • high in sociability
  • anxious attached child
  • introvert
  • high in activity level
Q12 | Dennis always wanted to be a doctor. His parents pushed him in biology and chemistry. When he applied for college, he declared his major as pre-medical and only took classes that would help him to get into Medical School. According to the identity status paradigm, Dennis is in which stage?
  • identity foreclosure
  • moratorium
  • identity diffusion
  • identity lease
Q13 | An identity that results in an individual exploring different options before making a decision is said to be
  • identity diffusion
  • identity foreclosure
  • moratorium
  • negative identity
Q14 | The idea that you can assess someone’s personality by studying their face iscalled:
  • phrenology
  • physiology
  • somatology
  • physiognomy
Q15 | Humanistic psychologists explained
  • human traits
  • humanity
  • sociology
  • can’t say
Q16 | Extraverts have ________ participation
  • mental
  • social
  • physical
  • none of these
Q17 | traits could be organized into three levels:
  • primary, secondary, tertiary
  • cognitive, emotional, physiological
  • id, ego, superego
  • cardinal, central, secondary
Q18 | Which of the following is NOT one of the Big Five traits?
  • sense of humour
  • openness to experience
  • conscientiousness
  • extraversion
Q19 | The ________ approach to understanding human behaviour.
  • palliative
  • psychodynamic
  • patronymic
  • psychedelic
Q20 | The influence of parents on the personality of their children is:
  • non-existent
  • weakest in early childhood
  • strongest in early childhood
  • consistent across the lifespan
Q21 | A good command over a ……..is need of speech
  • practice
  • language
  • gestures
  • activity
Q22 | Few…. traits can not changed.
  • new
  • inborn
  • adopted
  • natural
Q23 | Which of the following characteristics describe someone who, according toMaslow, is self-actualized?
  • creativity
  • confidence
  • spontaneity
  • all of the above
Q24 | One can express through…….
  • oral
  • writtien
  • gesture
  • all the above
Q25 | Psychometric tests claim give information about:
  • career interest
  • intellectual attainment
  • unconscious passion
  • all the above