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This set of Personality Development Multiple Choice Questions & Answers (MCQs) focuses on Personality Development Set 3

Q1 | People with different body types have different personalities has been:
  • supported by research
  • discredited
  • shown to be accurate for thin people but not overweight people
  • shown to be accurate for women but not for men
Q2 | Which of the following is not a defence mechanism?
  • projection
  • regression
  • ingratiation
  • sublimation
Q3 | Rohan is self-disciplined, focused on achievement and keen to do his duty.He would beexpected to score highly on:
  • neuroticism
  • agreeableness
  • extraversion
  • conscientiousness
Q4 | ________ are the basic biological units that transmit characteristics from onegeneration to the next:
  • genes
  • neurons
  • glia
  • instincts
Q5 | Which of the following would NOT be useful to a behavioural geneticist?
  • family studies
  • case studies
  • adoption studies
  • twin studies
Q6 | Thinking oneself very different is…..
  • superego
  • self motivation
  • pleasure
  • reality,
Q7 | Lana is friendly, always willing to help others and compassionate. Wewould expect Lana to score highly on:
  • extraversion
  • agreeableness
  • neuroticism
  • openness to experience
Q8 | A syllogism is a form of
  • inductive reasoning
  • illogical reasoning
  • independent reasoning
  • deductive reasoning
Q9 | Most people categorize most rapidly at the _____ level of hierarchy
  • hyperordinate
  • superordinate
  • subordinate
  • basic
Q10 | Humans think using
  • emotions and feelings
  • emotions and images
  • mental images and concept
  • feelings and concept
Q11 | Which of the following is the smallest unit within a language system?
  • sentence
  • grapheme
  • morpheme
  • phoneme
Q12 | What is the nature of the relationship between language and thought according tothe strong version of linguistic relativity hypothesis?
  • there is two directional interaction between language and thought
  • language interacts with thought
  • thought is required for language
  • language determines thought
Q13 | What is the nature of the relationship between language and thought according tothe weak version of linguistic relativity hypothesis?
  • there is two directional interaction between language and thought
  • language only interacts with thought
  • there is two directional interaction between language and thought
  • language determines thought
Q14 | Damage to which area of brain can impair general planning ability according toOwen?
  • hippocampus
  • cerebellum
  • prefrontal cortex
  • hypothalamus
Q15 | Reasoning involving moving from specific facts to a conclusion is also known as
  • conditional reasoning
  • ill-defined problem
  • deductive reasoning
  • inductive reasoning
Q16 | All of the following represent components of natural language use except
  • syntax
  • pragmatics
  • mnemonics
  • semantics
Q17 | When related sentences are put together to make a sensible message, this is referredto as
  • context
  • semantics
  • pragmatics
  • discourse
Q18 | The common term used to describe all types of language loss is
  • dyslexia
  • aphasia
  • dysphasia
  • lexphasia
Q19 | Which of the following is an example of people's reliance on the representativenessheuristics to make decisions or judgements?
  • people report that they did more than 50% of the work in domestic situations
  • people tend top overestimate car accidents
  • people are more likely to attribute a case of heartburn to spicy food than bland food
  • people tend to underestimate death from diabetes
Q20 | All of the following qualities describe reasoning by intuition except
  • occurs automatically
  • fast analysis of information
  • strong feeling of conviction
  • logical analysis
Q21 | The temporary inability to retrieve a word that is well known to us is referred to as
  • recency effect
  • tip-of-the-tongue phenomenon
  • wernicke\s aphasia
  • broca\s aphasia
Q22 | Availability heuristic is not
  • influenced by imagination
  • influenced by information stored in memory
  • subject to hindsight bias
  • influenced by the underlying possibilities
Q23 | Chomsky proposed that children learn a language
  • because they possess learnt words
  • because they possess an innate language acquisition device
  • language and thought are separate and independent processess
  • one\s thought determines the nature of one\s language
Q24 | The term cognition includes
  • thinking, problem solving, reasoning and dreaming
  • classical and instrumental conditioning
  • attention and perception
  • use of memory systems
Q25 | A student taking multiple choice test by reading the stem of each item, generatingthe correct response closest to the answer is using
  • vicarious problem solving
  • semantics
  • heuristics
  • ideal solution