BUSS

Question 1

Which of following theorist laid the foundation for the modern theory of evolution?

a. Sigmund Freud
b. Charles Darwin
c. Hans Eysenck
d. Carl Rogers

Answer 1

b

Question 2

Which one of the following is not one of the types of selection focused on by evolutionary theorists?

a. artificial selection
b. natural selection
c. seminal selection
d. sexual selection

Answer 2

c

Question 3

The evolutionary process of natural and sexual selection and chance results in ____ distinct outcomes.

a. two
b. five
c. six
d. three

Answer 3

d

Question 4

Who were the first thinkers to argue for an evolutionary perspective of psychological thought and behavior?

a. Freud and Jung
b. Darwin and Spencer
c. Aristotle and Plato
d. Tooby and Cosmides

Answer 4

b

Question 5

The essence of Buss’s theory of personality revolves around adaptive problems and their_____________.

a. fundamental attribution errors
b. solutions or mechanisms
c. functional dynamics
d. fundamental situational errors

Answer 5

b

Question 6

The term ___________ refers to the process of evolution by natural selection has produced solutions to the two basic problems of life keyed on by Darwin and Buss.

a. mechanisms
b. artificial selection
c. surgency
d. natural selection

Answer 6

a

Question 7

___________ mechanisms are internal and specific cognitive, motivational, and personality systems that solve specific survival and reproduction problems.

a. Survival
b. Adaptive
c. Physical
d. Psychological

Answer 7

d

Question 8

In Buss’s theory there are ____ specific main classes of mechanisms.

a. five
b. four
c. three
d. two

Answer 8

d

Question 9

Psychological mechanisms relevant to personality can be grouped into _______ main categories.

a. three
b. two
c. four
d. five

Answer 9

a

Question 10

Psychological mechanisms relevant to personality can be grouped into all the following categories, except:

a. goals/drives/motives.
b. nature/nurture.
c. emotions.
d. traits.

Answer 10

b

Question 11

Two goals and motives that act as evolved mechanisms are -

a. survival-ability and dominance.
b. power and intimacy.
c. politics and economics.
d. belongingness and social-ability.

Answer 11

b

Question 12

Buss (1991) starts with the assumption that motivation, emotion, and personality are adaptive in that they solve problems of _______________.

a. survival and reproduction
b. introversion and extroversion.
c. psychoticism and neuroticism.
d. narcissism and frotteurism

Answer 12

a

Question 13

Buss argues that the five main dimensions of personality (Big Five) can be best thought of as a way of summarizing the ____________.

a. human dynamic
b. strategies of personhood
c. social landscape
d. need of belongingness

Answer 13

c

Question 14

Buss argues for essentially the same five personality dimensions (Big Five) but with slightly different terminology. Which is not one of Buss’s categories?

a. surgency/extraversion/dominance
b. conscientiousness
c. agreeableness
d. neuroticism/psychoticism

Answer 14

d

Question 15

__________ involves the disposition to experience positive emotional states and to engage in one’s environment and to be sociable and self-confident.

a. Agreeableness
b. Conscientiousness
c. Surgency
d. Openness

Answer 15

c

Question 16

A second dimension of personality, ______________, is marked by a person’s willingness and capacity to cooperate and help the group on the one hand or to be hostile and aggressive on the other.

a. conscientiousness
b. openness/intellect.
c. emotional stability
d. agreeableness/hostility

Answer 16

d

Question 17

The third adaptive personality system revolves around response to danger and threat and is referred to as ____________.

a. emotional stability/neuroticism
b. agreeableness/hostility
c. conscientiousness
d. surgency

Answer 17

a

Question 18

The fourth adaptive personality system revolves around one’s capacity and commitment to work and is the core characteristic of _______________.

a. conscientiousness
b. emotional stability
c. agreeableness
d. openness

Answer 18

a

Question 19

The fifth adaptive personality system is the evolved strategy of ____________ involves one’s propensity for innovation and ability to solve problems.

a. agreeableness
b. conscientiousness
c. openness
d. emotional stability

Answer 19

c

Question 20

Which statement is most true for the evolutionary theory of personality as it relates as a guide for practitioners in psychology:

a. The theory is more abstract and pure than concrete and applied.
b. The theory is more concrete and applied than abstract and pure.
c. The theory is more abstract and concrete than pure and applied.
d. The theory is more pure and concrete than abstract and applied.

Answer 20

a