ALLPORT MC

Question 1

Allport’s personality theory is marked chiefly by its emphasis on

a. unconscious motivation.
b. personality types.
c. early childhood experiences.
d. uniqueness of the individual.

Answer 1

d

Question 2

This term best describes Allport’s approach to the study of personality.

a. eclectic
b. theoretical
c. trait and factor
d. behavioristic

Answer 2

a

Question 3

In his study of personality, Allport emphasized

a. cultural influences.
b. the normal healthy person.
c. group characteristics.
d. factor analytic techniques.

Answer 3

b

Question 4

According to Allport, people are motivated by

a. a variety of drives.
b. the need for self-actualization.
c. the need to reduce tension and seek pleasure.
d. the need for relatedness with others.

Answer 4

a

Question 5

Allport insisted that the basic units of personality are

a. common traits.
b. cardinal traits.
c. types.
d. personal dispositions.

Answer 5

d

Question 6

According to Allport, the psychologically mature person would

a. have a unifying philosophy of life.
b. lack a sense of humor.
c. be motivated mostly by unconscious needs.
d. none of these.
e. all of these.

Answer 6

a

Question 7

Allport recognized these two kinds of traits:

a. primary and secondary
b. source and surface
c. common and individual
d. proactive and reactive

Answer 7

c

Question 8

Personal dispositions

a. are also referred to as common traits.
b. make various stimuli functionally equal.
c. initiate and guide the behavior of individuals.
d. all of these.
e. none of these.

Answer 8

b

Question 9

cardinal dispositions

a. are found in everyone.
b. cannot be hidden.
c. are also called central personal dispositions.
d. are common traits.
e. have been extensively studied in the psychology literature.

Answer 9

b

Question 10

Secondary dispositions

a. cannot be hidden.
b. are not central to the person yet occur with some regularity.
c. are those 5 to 10 personal dispositions that characterize most people.
d. are common traits.
e. are too weak to initiate action.

Answer 10

b

Question 11

This term is LEAST descriptive of Allport’s approach to personality.

a. personal disposition
b. morphogenic
c. types
d. functional autono

Answer 11

c

Question 12

Stylistic traits

a. are intensely felt.
b. guide action.
c. are usually cardinal traits.
d. are common traits.

Answer 12

b

Question 13

The proprium is Allport’s term for

a. those behaviors and characteristics that people regard as central to their lives.
b. the conscious portion of the ego.
c. the unconscious portion of the ego.
d. those behaviors and characteristics that people regard as belonging to the periphery of their lives.

Answer 13

a

Question 14

According to Allport, people are motivated mostly by

a. unconscious forces originating in childhood.
b. the need for competence and superiority.
c. both the need to adjust and the need to grow.
d. both sex and aggression.

Answer 14

c

Question 15

When motives change to self-sustaining interests, Allport would say that they have become

a. extinct.
b. needs.
c. habituated.
d. functionally autonomous.
e. secondary drives.

Answer 15

d

Question 16

Which of these did Allport NOT recognize as a criterion for an adequate theory of motivation?

a. the contemporaneity of motives
b. the pluralistic nature of motives
c. a single master motive that unifies all behavior
d. the cognitive processes of planning and attention

Answer 16

c

Question 17

Propriate functional autonomy is Allport’s

a. master system of motivation.
b. concept of unconscious motivation.
c. explanation for pathological behaviors.
d. term for self-actualization.
e. concept of factor analysis.

Answer 17

a

Question 18

Allport assumed that people who attend church regularly may have

a. an extrinsic religious orientation.
b. an intrinsic religious orientation.
c. both of these.
d. neither of these.

Answer 18

c

Question 19

Allport’s theory of personality is basically

a. optimistic.
b. reactive.
c. causal.
d. trait-oriented.

Answer 19

a