Personality assessment

The following traits belong to which researchers?

openness, conscientiousness, extroversion, agreeableness, and neuroticism

• McCrae & Costa

• Myers Briggs

• Cantell

• Seligman

Answer explanation

Remember the acronym:

OCEAN - openness, conscientiousness, extroversion, agreeableness, and neuroticism

"The ego's protective methods of reducing anxiety by unconsciously distorting reality"

Which of the following is true for the above statement?

• Ego

• Defense Mechanisms

• Psychodynamic

• Superego

Answer explanation

Defense mechanisms are used when coping with threats and defending oneself against the dangers of the threats that may pose to him/her. In another word, defense mechanisms are used to reduce anxiety,

When we overestimate how much other people share our beliefs and behaviors, we are engaging in ___________________

• free association

• Ignorance of one incompetence phenomenon

• inferiority complex

• false consensus effect

____________________ refers to a branch of psychology that studies personality and its variation among individuals.

• Humanistic Psychology

• Positive Psychology

• Behaviorist Psychology

• Individual Psychology

________________ refers to the interacting influences between personality and environmental factors

• Self-serving Bias

• Self actualization

• Reciprocal Determinism

• Self-actualization

Learned helplessness is term coined by

• Maslow

• Seligman

• Lazarus

• Skinner

Psychodynamic and unconsciousness are terms by

• Myers Briggs

• Freud

• Costa & McCrae

• Rogers

Who you WANT to be refer to ___________________

• ideal self

• actual self

• common self

• alter ego self

Collective unconsciousness and archetypes are terms related to _________________

• Adler

• Freud

• Horney

• Jung

Unconsciousness and inferiority complex are terms related to ____________________________

• Freud

• Horney

• Adler

• Jung