Mid-Term: Quiz 6

Question 1

According to the text, major life events such as leaving the parental home, starting a career, and beginning a family are associated with increases in which personality trait?

Answer 1

Conscientiousness

Question 2

The study of mean-level changes in personality across the life span suggests which of the following?

Answer 2

Mean-level changes in personality traits occur across the life span.

Question 3

According to the text, what is the first thing you should do if you want to increase your self-control?

Answer 3

Set realistic goals for yourself that are compatible with your personal values

Question 4

What does the Feminine Social Clock (FSC) propose?

Answer 4

A woman should start a family by her mid- to late 20s

Question 5

What is rank-order consistency of personality?

Answer 5

The idea that people tend to maintain the ways in which they are different from other people of the same age

Question 6

What is the central conclusion behind the cumulative continuity principle?

Answer 6

Individual differences in personality become more consistent as individuals age.

Question 7

A study that administers a questionnaire to many people across a wide range of ages is an example of a

Answer 7

Cross-sectional Study

Question 8

Which of the following traits seems to show the strongest and most noticeable mean-level increase from ages 20 to 30?

Answer 8

Conscientiousness

Question 9

Andy is concerned about whether younger adults are much happier than older adults. Andy studies what kind of personality development?

Answer 9

Mean-Level

Question 10

The process by which different people respond differently to certain situations is called the

Answer 10

reactive person-environment transaction.

Question 11

The rank-order stability of personality is highest in which of the following periods of development?

Answer 11

Adulthood

Question 12

People become better equipped to deal with the demands of life, and they acquire experience and skill. This statement best reflects which principle of personality development?

Answer 12

Maturity

Question 13

Sammy is concerned about whether relatively extraverted adolescents become relatively extraverted adults. Sammy studies what kind of personality stability?

Answer 13

Rank-Order

Question 14

A(n) __________ story includes an event that seemed terrible at the time but turns out for the best in the end.

Answer 14

Redemptive

Question 15

According to the text, the paradox that is central to the study of personality development is that people ____________ throughout their lives yet fundamental traits remain constant.

Answer 15

Change

Question 16

Research has found that laterborns are more __________ than firstborns.

Answer 16

Open-minded

Question 17

Which of the follow is NOT a goal typically associated with an individual in his or her 20s or 30s?

Answer 17

Appreciating the position aspects of one’s life

Question 18

According to Hudson and Roberts (2014), which trait do most people wish to change in themselves?

Answer 18

Neuroticism

Question 19

Which of the following principles of personality development aligns with the idea that people seek to develop a stable sense of who they are and then strive to act consistently with this self-view?

Answer 19

Identity Development Principle

Question 20

According to Dan McAdams, what is the first step in the development of one’s narrative identity?

Answer 20

Seeing oneself as an actor