Ch. 11

Question 1

Personality is thought to be _____.

A. Short term and easily changed

B. A pattern of short-term characteristics

C. Unstable and short term

D. Long term, stable, and not easily changed

Answer 1

D. Long term, stable and not easily changed

Question 2

The long-standing traits and patterns that propel individuals to consistently think, feel, and behave in specific ways are known as _______.

A. Psychodynamic

B. Temperament

C. Humors

D. Personality

Answer 2

D. Personality

Question 3

______ is credited with the first comprehensive theory of personality.

A. Hippocrates

B. Gall

C. Wundt

D. Freud

Answer 3

D. Freud

Question 4

An early science that tried to correlate personality with measurements of parts of a person’s skull is known as _____.

A. Phrenology

B. Psychology

C. Physiology

D. Personality Psychology

Answer 4

A. Phrenology

Question 5

The id operates on the _____ principle.

A. Reality

B. Pleasure

C. Instant gratification

D. Guilt

Answer 5

B. Pleasure

Question 6

The ego defense mechanism in which a person who is confronted with anxiety returns to a more immature behavioral stage is called _____.

A. Repression

B. Regression

C. Reaction formation

D. Rationalization

Answer 6

B. Regression

Question 7

The Oedipus complex occurs in the ______ stage of psychosexual development.

A. Oral

B. Anal

C. Phallic

D. Latency

Answer 7

C. Phallic

Question 8

The universal bank of ideas, images, and concepts that have been passed down through the generations from our ancestors refers to _______.

A. Archetypes

B. Intuition

C. Collective unconscious

D. Personality types

Answer 8

C. Collective unconscious

Question 9

Self-regulation is also known as ______.

A. Self-efficacy

B. Will power

C. Internal locus of control

D. External locus of control

Answer 9

B. Will power

Question 10

Your level of confidence in your own abilities is known as ______.

A. Self-efficacy

B. Self-concept

C. Self-control

D. Self-esteem

Answer 10

A. Self-efficacy

Question 11

Jane believes that she got a bad grade of her psychology paper because her professor doesn’t;t like her. Jane most likely has an ______ locus of control.

A. Internal

B. External

C. Intrinsic

D. Extrinsic

Answer 11

B. External

Question 12

Self-concept refers to _______.

A. Our level of confidence in our own abilities

B. All of our thoughts and feelings about ourselves

C. The belief that we control our own outcomes

D. The belief that our outcomes are outside of our control

Answer 12

B. All of our thoughts and feelings about ourselves

Question 13

The idea that people’s ideas about themselves should match their actions is called _______.

A. Confluence

B. Conscious

C. Conscientiousness

D. Congruence

Answer 13

D. Congruence

Question 14

The way a person reacts to the world, starting when they are very young, including the person’s activity level is known as _______.

A. Traits

B. Temperament

C. Heritability

D. Personality

Answer 14

B. Temperament

Question 15

Brianna is 18 months old. She cries frequently, is hard to soothe, and wakes frequently during the night. According to Thomas and Chess, she would be considered ________.

A. An easy baby

B. A difficult baby

C. A slow to warm up baby

D. A colicky baby

Answer 15

B. A difficult baby

Question 16

According to the finding of the Minnesota Study of Twins Reared Apart, identical twins, whether raised together or apart have _______ personalities.

A. Slightly different

B. Very different

C. Slightly similar

D. Very similar

Answer 16

D. Very similar

Question 17

Temperament refers to _______.

A. Inborn, genetically based personality differences

B. Characteristic ways of behaving

C. Conscientiousness, agreeableness, neuroticism, openness, and extroversion

D. Degree of introversion-extroversion

Answer 17

A. Inborn, genetically based personality differences

Question 18

According to the Eysenck’s theory, people who score high on neuroticism tend to be _______.

A. Calm

B. Stable

C. Outgoing

D. Anxious

Answer 18

D. Anxious

Question 19

The United States is considered a ______ culture.

A. Collectivistic

B. Individualist

C. Traditional

D. Nontraditional

Answer 19

B. Individualist

Question 20

The concept that people choose to move to places that are compatible with their personalities and needs is known as ________.

A. Selective migration

B. Personal oriented personality

C. Socially oriented personality

D. Individualism

Answer 20

A. Selective migration

Question 21

Which of the following is NOT a projective test?

A. Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI)

B. Rorschach Inkblot Test

C. Thematic Apperception Test (TAT)

D. Rotter Incomplete Sentence Bank (RISB)

Answer 21

A. Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI)

Question 22

A personality assessment in which a person responds to ambiguous stimuli, revealing unconscious feelings, impulses, and desires ______.

A. Self-report inventory

B. Projective test

C. Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI)

D. Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI)

Answer 22

B. Projective test

Question 23

Which personality assessment employs a series of true/false questions?

A. Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI)

B. Thematic Apperception Test (TAT)

C. Rotter Incomplete Sentence Blank (RISB)

D. Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI)

Answer 23

A. Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI)