Personality Set 1 MCQs

Q1 | Which strategy IMPROVES the reliability of a research design?

make the test shorter

standardize all circumstances under which the test is administered, including instructions.

delete all items from the test that do not correlate with the other items.

b and c only

Q2 | Which of the statements below are FALSE?

Since Personality psychology has competing viewpoints, it is considered a paradigm.

Science judges the truth of statements based on the empirical methoD:)

Personality encompasses diverse qualities of individuals (E:)g., biology, social influences, childhood experiences, etC:))

Science demands that hypotheses be discarded if they are not confirmed by observation.

Q3 | Which range best targets the number of "Central Traits" that have been identified?

08-May

5-200

17,000-18,000

19,000-20,000

Q4 | Which of the following examples is most likely to have a negative correlation?

Number of hours spent studying and test scores

Amount of violent television viewed and number of aggressive acts committed

How many times the subject smiles per day and their unhappiness level

Weight and height

Q5 | he Ancient Greeks hypothesized that there were 4 different personality characteristics. The fourcharacteristics are

irritability, optimism, pessimism, calmness

calmness, depression, pessimism, irritability

depression, irritability, pessimism, optimism

irritability, depression, optimism, calmness

Q6 | Sheldon proposed three different types of traits. The traits that would best describe a footballplayer would be:

mesomorph

endomorph

ectomorph

actinomorphy

Q7 | Which of the following would be an example of a correlational strategy of academic research?

testing a hypothesis with an experimental group

having a group fill out questionnaires

using the scientific method

a clinician diagnosing his/her patient

Q8 | If you had a correlation of positive one, the related items would be:

completely unrelated

moderately correlated

very highly correlated

identical

Q9 | In analyzing data, measurements are sometimes categorical, for example "smiles" or "frowns". Thistype of measurement is called

qualitative measurement

quantitative measurement

reliability

validity

Q10 | If you say that a movie is really good and you like it you would also assume that your best friendwould like it. What implicit personality theory is this?

stereotype

perceived similarity

Halo effect

observer bias

Q11 | From the Big Five personality dimensions, behaviours such as speaking fluently, displayingambition, and exhibiting a high degree of intelligence is

Agreeableness

Openness

Extraversion

Conscientiousness

Q12 | Psychologists seek to understand Robs personality through his thoughts, beliefs and their impacton his behavior in certain situations. This is known as the

trait approach

humanistic approach

cognitive approach

psychoanalytic approach

Q13 | Devins personality is researched through 3 factors: extraversion, neuroticism and psychoticism.This personality trait model is called

Eysencks Trait Model

Myers-Briggs Type Indicator

Smith Model

Cattells Sixteen factor Model

Q14 | What type of personality focuses on how people adapt to everyday life and intervenes to improvethe lives of individuals through therapy?

Academic psychology

Clinical Psychology

Practical Psychology

Applied Psychology

Q15 | Which of the following would be a phenomenological approach to the study of personality?

emphasize subjects feelings

emphasize subjects thoughts

emphasize the meaning that people ascribe to events, not simply the objective events themselves

All of the above

Q16 | What is the trait approach to personality?

Assumes that people are motivated by unconscious emotional conflicts

Assumes that each individual has stable personality characteristics

Assumes that peoples thoughts and beliefs are central to personality

Assumes that people have an innate tendency to become self-actualized

Q17 | William Sheldon suggested that body build was associated with personality traits. Which one bestdescribes a person whos sensitive and intellectual?

conservative

neurotic

endomorph

ectomorph

Q18 | Natali . What is the difference between nomothetic and idiographic approaches to personality?

nomothetic approaches seek to find generalized laws of behaviour that help us classify people in terms of their similarities, while idiographic approaches seek to find what makes people unique

nomothetic approaches view only the differences between people, while ideographic approaches seek to find similarities

ideographic approaches try to categorize people, while nomothetic approaches don’t

None of them

Q19 | D What is one of the main assumptions of the trait approach to personality?

traits are not very stable across the lifespan and are therefore weak predictors of personality

traits stay relatively stable across the lifespan

traits change drastically around the age of 6 years, which has to be taken into account when predicting personality

None of them

Q20 | Which of the following is NOT given as a criticism of the Type A/B personality theory?

most of the research on Type A personality is purely correlational

there is a lack of cross-cultural research

the questionnaires that claim to measure Type A personality have poor internal reliability scores

None of them

Q21 | What is meant by ‘interactionism’ in personality psychology?

the view that the interaction between people shapes their personalities

the view that there is reciprocal interaction between personality, situations and the environment

the view that children should interact with other children as much as possible to shape a personality that will benefit them in their later lives

None of them

Q22 | There are ———- trait dimensions did Cattell propose?

2

3

16

117

Q23 | Which of the following are the aim of behavioural genetics is to learn about:

the possibility of eradicating behavioural problems in children

the ability of animals to learn the language

the extent to which geneticists can modify people’s behaviour

the genetic and environmental influences on human behaviour

Q24 | Which of the following characteristics describe someone who, according to Maslow, is selfactualized?

creativity

confidence

Spontaneity

all of the above

Q25 | Which of the following is not a defence mechanism?

ingratiation

regression

projection

Sublimation