Applied Psychology - Personality

2 types of personality theories are

• Functional and Dysfunctional

• Strong and Weak

• Dispositional and Situational

• Trait and Characteristic

A Trait theory is an example of a

• Dispositional theory

• Situational theory

• A compromise Theory

• An empirical theory

the Earliest known Trait theory was propsed by

• Eysenck

• Allport

• Cattell

• Galon

Which was not one of the 4 Humours that determine temperament according to Gallon

• Black Bile

• Yellow Bile

• Green Bile

• Blood

Which was not a type of Trait proposed by Allport in his theory on personality

• Cardinal Traits

• Secondary Traits

• Primary Traits

• Central Traits

A single characteristic that determines the majority of a persons activity

• secondary Trait

• Single trait

• Central Trait

• Cardinal Trait

the first theorist to believe there are 2 main personality types - Extrovert and Introvert

• Eysenck

• Cattell

• Jung

• Allport

Believed that there were 2 basic categories of traits - Surface traits and Source traits

• Cattell

• Jung

• Eysenck

• Allport

Cattell devised a list of factors to describe personality characteristics. he called this

• 24 FT

• 34DD

• 12WTF

• 16PF

McCrea and Costa Developed a theory called

• the Big deal

• the big D

• the big 5

• the big 10