| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Personality is thought to be ________. | long term, stable and not easily changed short term and easily changed a pattern of short-term characteristics unstable and short term |
| The long-standing traits and patterns that propel individuals to consistently think, feel, and behave in specific ways are known as ________. | personality psychodynamic temperament humors |
| ________ is credited with the first comprehensive theory of personality. | Freud Hippocrates Gall Wundt |
| An early science that tried to correlate personality with measurements of parts of a person’s skull is known as ________. | phrenology psychology physiology personality psychology |
| The id operates on the ________ principle. | pleasure reality instant gratification guilt |
| The ego defense mechanism in which a person who is confronted with anxiety returns to a more immature behavioral stage is called ________. | regression repression reaction formation rationalization |
| The Oedipus complex occurs in the ________ stage of psychosexual development. | phallic oral anal latency |
| The universal bank of ideas, images, and concepts that have been passed down through the generations from our ancestors refers to ________. | collective unconscious archetypes intuition personality types |
| Self-regulation is also known as ________. | internal locus of control self-efficacy will power external locus of control |
| Your level of confidence in your own abilities is known as ________. | self-efficacy self-concept self-control self-esteem |
| Jane believes that she got a bad grade on her psychology paper because her professor doesn’t like her. Jane most likely has an _______ locus of control. | external internal intrinsic extrinsic |
| Self-concept refers to ________. | all of our thoughts and feelings about ourselves our level of confidence in our own abilities the belief that we control our own outcomes the belief that our outcomes are outside of our control |
| The idea that people’s ideas about themselves should match their actions is called ________. | congruence confluence conscious conscientiousness |
| The way a person reacts to the world, starting when they are very young, including the person’s activity level is known as ________. | temperament traits heritability personality |
| 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 difficult baby an easy baby a slow to warm up baby a colicky baby |
| According to the findings of the Minnesota Study of Twins Reared Apart, identical twins, whether raised together or apart have ________ personalities. | very similar slightly different very different slightly similar |
| Temperament refers to ________. | inborn, genetically based personality differences characteristic ways of behaving conscientiousness, agreeableness, neuroticism, openness, and extroversion degree of introversion-extroversion |
| According to the Eysencks’ theory, people who score high on neuroticism tend to be ________. | anxious calm stable outgoing |
| The United States is considered a(n) ________ culture. | individualist collectivistic traditional nontraditional |
| The concept that people choose to move to places that are compatible with their personalities and needs is known as ________. | selective migration personal oriented personality socially oriented personality individualism |
| Which of the following is NOT a projective test? | Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI) Rorschach Inkblot Test Thematic Apperception Test (TAT) Rotter Incomplete Sentence Blank (RISB) |
| A personality assessment in which a person responds to ambiguous stimuli, revealing unconscious feelings, impulses, and desires ________. | projective test self-report inventory Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI) Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) |
| Which personality assessment employs a series of true/false questions? | Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI) Thematic Apperception Test (TAT) Rotter Incomplete Sentence Blank (RISB) Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) |
Your questions are stored by us to improve Elon.io
The content of this course has been taken from the free Psychology textbook by Openstax
