Personality And Personal Growth Set 2

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This set of Personality and Personal Growth Multiple Choice Questions & Answers (MCQs) focuses on Personality And Personal Growth Set 2

Q1 | The dimensions of individual differences in tendencies to show consistent patterns ofthoughts, feelings, and actions are called as ...........
  • personality
  • emotional stability
  • behaviour
  • trait
Answer: trait
Q2 | The VIA classification system of six virtues include all the following except ..........
  • curiosity
  • wisdom
  • justice
  • temperance
Answer: curiosity
Q3 | .......... has been conceptualized as an expert knowledge system associated with anadvanced stage of cognitive and personality development.
  • wisdom
  • transcendence
  • curiosity
  • intelligence
Answer: wisdom
Q4 | The aesthetics facet belongs to which one of the big five personality trait?
  • conscientiousness
  • neuroticism
  • extraversion
  • openness to experience
Answer: openness to experience
Q5 | A global expectation that the future will bring a bounty of good things and scarcity ofbad things is ..........
  • hope
  • dispositional optimism
  • learned optimism
  • positive illusion
Answer: dispositional optimism
Q6 | Which one of the following is not a dimension of big five personality?
  • psychoticism
  • neuroticism
  • emotional stability
  • agreeableness
Answer: psychoticism
Q7 | The virtue which represents our capacity for sympathy, empathy, compassion andlove in our relationship with others.
  • temperance
  • transcendence
  • humanity
  • justice
Answer: humanity
Q8 | .......... is thankfulness to a deity or to the universe for specific things or for theexperience of existence.
  • personal gratitude
  • transpersonal gratitude
  • dispositional gratitude
  • spirituality
Answer: transpersonal gratitude
Q9 | Seligman and Peterson have conceptualized optimism as ............
  • a personality trait
  • positive illusion
  • an explanatory style
  • a character strength
Answer: an explanatory style
Q10 | The opposite end of the agreeableness continuum is ............
  • antagonism
  • deliberateness
  • sociability
  • emotional unstability
Answer: antagonism
Q11 | Each virtue is defined by a set of .......... strengths that represent the ingredients,expressions and potential means of developing the virtue.
  • behavioural
  • character
  • personality
  • emotional
Answer: character
Q12 | ............. is the capacity to accurately recognize the psychological states of self andothers, and manage our own psychological states and social situations effectively.
  • wisdom
  • iq
  • social intelligence
  • self-awareness
Answer: social intelligence
Q13 | The ability to understand feelings in the self and others, and to use these feelings asinformational guides for thinking and action
  • empathy
  • sympathy
  • emotional intelligence
  • self-awareness
Answer: emotional intelligence
Q14 | ............ involves not acknowledging the existence or meaning of threatening orstressful events in the external world.
  • repression
  • projection
  • displacement
  • denial
Answer: denial
Q15 | ............ refers to people’s level of discipline, self-control and organization
  • competence
  • agreeableness
  • conscientiousness
  • self-efficacy
Answer: conscientiousness
Q16 | The virtue that provide the strength to control excesses and restrain impulses whichmay harm the self and others.
  • temperance
  • transcendence
  • justice
  • wisdom
Answer: temperance
Q17 | An individual’s capacity to produce novel and useful ideas.
  • intelligence
  • wisdom
  • creativity
  • curiosity
Answer: creativity
Q18 | Teamwork belongs to the virtue of ..............
  • justice
  • humanity
  • temperance
  • leadership
Answer: justice
Q19 | .............. involves registering, attending to, and deciphering emotional messages asthey are expressed in facial expressions, voice tone, or cultural artefacts.
  • emotional competence
  • emotional perception
  • emotional understanding
  • emotional facilitation
Answer: emotional perception
Q20 | ‘People who experience flow in daily life tend to very happy’. This proposalconstitute which type of happiness theory?
  • process/activity theories
  • need/goal satisfaction theories
  • genetic theories of happiness
  • personality predisposition theories
Answer: process/activity theories
Q21 | An organized set of beliefs that allows to anticipate situations in which negative information is likely to be received about the self and then to develop strategies fordealing with these is ....................
  • positive illusion
  • negative illusion
  • positive self-schema
  • negative self-schema
Answer: negative self-schema
Q22 | The book ‘Denial of death’ was written by
  • earnest becker
  • freud
  • aron beck
  • seligman
Answer: earnest becker
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