Personality Practice Problems Flashcards
The Big Five personality factors are:
Openness to experience, conscientiousness, extraversion, agreeableness, neuroticism
Robert McCrae and Paul Costa are associated with the _____ of personality.
five-factor model
Betty is preparing for her job interview. She has collected a list of questions that are most likely asked in a job interview. She plans her answers carefully. Then she practices answering those questions by asking her brother to role-play the interviewer. Betty is playing a proactive role in her career plans. Betty is showing ______.
internal locus of control
Professor X believes that anxiety is caused by not being able to understand and predict future events. Professor X would agree with ________ approach to personality.
Kelly’s
______ believed that personality is shaped by a person’s perception of responsibility for events in the person’s life.
Rotter
______ asserted that personality is based in a person’s personal construct of the
world.
Kelly
People ____ in self-monitoring tend to exhibit ____ levels of behavioral consistency.
high; low
low; high
In what ways do strong situations affect personality differently than weak situations?
Strong situations mask personality expression
As a college student, Pearl worried constantly about dating, friendships, and her grades. In her 40s, she now worries about her health, her finances, and her children. This change in the focus of her worrying is called ______
characteristic adaptation
As a child, Yi was an introvert, preferring quiet toys, books, and playing by himself. Now as an adult, Isaac has a solitary office job and enjoys quiet walks in the woods. The fact that he is still an
introvert as an adult is called _____.
basic tendency
According to research findings, which personality trait should increase as you age?
emotional stability
According to research findings, which personality trait should decrease as you age?
extraversion
What do interactionist theories say about personality?
Behavior is determined jointly by situations and personality traits
Fill in blanks 1 to 4 with these words: extraversion, introversion, neuroticism, stability
1 = extraversion
2 = introversion
3 = neuroticism
4 = stability
Which quadrant (I to IV) represents high psychoticism?
quadrant I
Which quadrant (I to IV) represents low psychoticism?
quadrant III
What does psychoticism mean in this model?
constraint/self-control
Which factor in the Big Five has the closest meaning to the word “psychoticism” in this model?
conscientiousness
What is the name of this model?
Eysenck’s Biological Trait Theory
During a conversation with a friend, Alan starts to get angry, but this is an emotion that he considers
inappropriate and childish. As a result, instead of noticing his own anger, he unknowingly starts to
believe that his friend is becoming angry and excited, even though she is doing no such thing. This
example best demonstrates which defense mechanism?
Projection
The district attorney never stops his campaign to rid the city of pornography. He gets extremely
agitated when speaking against the evils of “adult” magazines and he quotes scripture endlessly to
back up his tirades. However, he kept in secret many pornographic movies and magazines. How
would Freud most likely explain the underlying cause of his protest against pornography?
Reaction formation
People who are high in ____ adjust their behavior to what is called for by the situation
self-monitoring
According to Sigmund Freud, ____ is the fuel that drives mind and body. This fuel follows the law of
energy conservation, and it presses for direct and indirect release.
psychic energy
The ____ is the reservoir of the fuel described in the previous question.
The id
“You have to be a size 6 to be attractive” is an example of ______.
condition of worth
____ refers to the basic acceptance and support of a person regardless of what the person says or
does, especially in the context of client-centered therapy.
Unconditional positive regard
The three therapeutic conditions for a client-centered therapy are _____, _____, _____.
empathetic understanding, unconditional positive regard, genuine acceptance
_____ is a statistical tool that identifies clusters of correlated behaviors.
Factor analysis
“Id” is to “ego” as “____ principle” is to “____ principle”.
pleasure, reality
