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This set of Personality Development Multiple Choice Questions & Answers (MCQs) focuses on Personality Development Set 7

Q1 | Self- report inventories are ______ test, while projective tests are more ____
  • vague; clear
  • subjective; objective
  • objective; subjective
  • difficult; easy
Q2 | A model proposed by Albert Bandura that explains human functioning andpersonality as caused by the interaction of behavioural, cognitive and environmentalfactors
  • reciprocal determinism
  • self-efficacy
  • trait theory
  • sublimination
Q3 | The Neo-Freudians include
  • hans eyesenck, karen horney, albert bandura
  • carl rogers, sigmund freud, alfred adler
  • carl jung, karen horney, alfred adler
  • alfred adler, albert bandura
Q4 | A relatively stable, enduring predisposition to consistently behave in a certain way
  • trait
  • surface trait
  • self- concept
  • actualizing tendency
Q5 | The ______ is the set of perceptions and beliefs that you have about yourself,including your nature, your personal qualities and your typical behaviour.
  • actualizing tendency
  • conditional positive regard
  • self- concept
  • unconditional positive regard
Q6 | If you were to kick the dog after a hard day at office, you would be using
  • displacement
  • projection
  • reaction formation
  • rationalization
Q7 | Allport's idea that the traits around which someone organizes their life are called_____ traits.
  • cardinal
  • secondary
  • central
  • source
Q8 | Both the terms 'emotion' and 'motivation' came from the same Latin root
  • movement
  • move
  • moment
  • movere
Q9 | People from differewnt cultures can recognize which facial expressions?
  • fear
  • anger
  • disgust
  • all of these
Q10 | Relatively high levels of physiological arousal would most likely interfere witheffectively
  • enjoying a television football game
  • solving a crossword puzzle
  • washing dishes
  • riding a bicycle
Q11 | The author of the Hierarchical theory of motivation is
  • o.h. mowrer
  • mcclelland
  • j.w. atkinson
  • a.h. maslow
Q12 | Social needs activate the organism to
  • provide for physiological deficits
  • seek pleasure
  • avoid pain
  • gain status and recognition
Q13 | Gregariousness is a/ an
  • social motive
  • biological motive
  • psychological motive
  • personal motive
Q14 | Individual's life goal is
  • social motive
  • biological motive
  • personal motive
  • an instinct
Q15 | The brain site most likely involved in fear is
  • midbrain
  • left hemisphere
  • right hemisphere
  • amygdala
Q16 | Which theory holds that we are afraid because we run or are angry because westrike?
  • attribution
  • james-lange
  • cannon-bard
  • cognitive
Q17 | Motivation can be understood as an interaction between
  • approach and avoidance gradient
  • wactor and valence
  • life space and approach gradient
  • arousal and effort
Q18 | As motivation is closely related to effort, the emotion is related to
  • happiness
  • instinct
  • displacement behaviour
  • conflict
Q19 | According to Walter Cannon,
  • animals without a sympathetic nervous system can still experience emotion
  • animals without an amygdala cannot experience emotion
  • emotion can never be experienced until the body has time to react
  • the parasympathetic nervous system is responsible for the feeling of emotions
Q20 | The relative strength of the drives of hunger, thirst and sex have been studiedexperimentally in the white rat by
  • learning method
  • obstruction method
  • activity wheel
  • the choice and preference method
Q21 | Maslow viewed that motivated behaviour is
  • need related
  • a vector
  • a valence
  • an approach gradient
Q22 | All the following emotions are universal except
  • hopefulness
  • surprise
  • happiness
  • contempt
Q23 | According to William James High credibility, high word of mouth and news valueare the features of_________.
  • public relations.
  • publicity.
  • advertising.
  • promotion.
Q24 | __________is a defamation in a tangible medium like print, internet or broadcast.
  • slander.
  • libel.
  • propaganda.
  • publicity.
Q25 | _________is the measure of commitment in customer preferences, based ondegree of satisfaction.
  • customer equity.
  • brand identity.
  • customer loyalty.
  • brand essence.