Quiz 1 (30 Questions)

Question 1

Your personality can be:

Answer 1

1.Rigid and inflexible.
2.Based on traits and behaviour.
3.Constantly changing.

Question 2

Personality can be summed up by which of the following phrases?

Answer 2

Personality is how we perceive ourselves and also how others perceive us.

Question 3

Social networking sites, such as Facebook, can:

Answer 3

1.Help a person pretend they are someone else.
2.Increase an idealised self-image.
3.Be as accurate as face-to-face interactions in determining personality.

Question 4

Children who are exposed to vastly different environments:

Answer 4

Have vastly different personalities.

Question 5

Girls and boys are still reared according to:

Answer 5

Traditional stereotypes.

Question 6

The father of modern psychology was:

Answer 6

Wilhelm Wundt.

Question 7

According to Freud, childhood sexual fantasies are always:

Answer 7

The cause of adult neurosis.

Question 8

According to Freud, what are the two primary types of instincts?

Answer 8

Life and death.

Question 9

The ___________ is the root of psychic energy.

Answer 9

Libido.

Question 10

Freud believed that ________ and _________ are compelling parts of human nature.

Answer 10

Sex/Aggression.

Question 11

Jung’s view of personality differs from Freud’s in that Jung:

Answer 11

Placed an even greater emphasis on the unconscious.

Question 12

Jung’s early life:

Answer 12

Was insecure, and he escaped into dreams and fantasies.

Question 13

Jung saw libido as:

Answer 13

A broader and more generalised form of psychic energy.

Question 13

Jung broke from Freud’s concepts because:

Answer 13

He decided to follow his own ideas and viewpoints on personality.

Question 14

For Jung, the total personality is composed of the:

Answer 14

Ego, the personal unconscious, and the collective unconscious.

Question 15

Which of the following best describes Jung’s beliefs on introversion and extraversion?

Answer 15

A person typically has a dominant attitude towards introversion or extraversion.

Question 15

The rational functions are:

Answer 15

Thinking and Feeling.

Question 16

Jung believed that complexes grew out of:

Answer 16

1.Ancestral experiences.
2.Adult experiences.
3.Childhood experiences.

Question 16

The collective unconscious includes the past experiences of:

Answer 16

Human experiences and the history of our species.

Question 17

Out of our universal human experience, we all share certain recurring themes called:

Answer 17

Archetypes

Question 17

Adler placed greater emphasis on:

Answer 17

1.The uniqueness of the individual.
2.Minimizing sex than Freud.
3.The consciousness.

Question 18

All motivation to strive and succeed comes from:

Answer 18

Attempts to compensate for inferiorities.

Question 19

A first-born may react to the dethronement caused by the arrival of the second-born by:

Answer 19

1.Becoming insecure and hostile.
2.Hating the new baby.
3.Developing a behaviour problem.

Question 19

Adler’s explanation of the force that holds society together is his concept of

Answer 19

Social interest.

Question 20

The child most likely to develop at a remarkably fast rate is the:

Answer 20

Youngest child.

Question 21

Adler’s image of human nature is:

Answer 21

Optimistic.

Question 22

In attempting to assess the gates of mental life, Adler used the technique(s) of:

Answer 22

1.Dream analysis.
2.Birth order.
3.Early recollections.

Question 22

Research has been conducted on Adler’s ideas about:

Answer 22

1.Social interest.
2.Birth order.
3.Dreams.

Question 22

First-borns tend to be ____ than later-borns.

Answer 22

1.More dependent on other people
2.Higher in IQ
3.More obedient

Question 23

All of the following are criticisms of Adler’s system:

Answer 23

1.Adler was unsystematic in his thinking.
2.It relies too much on commonsense observations.
3.It is overly simple.