Personality Development Set 3
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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