Semi-final Examination in Theories of Personality (PSY106)

Abraham Maslow sought to gain a deep understanding of particular individuals, he developed his attention to psychologically healthy people. His main interest was in

• Self-actualization

• Self-realization

• Self-efficacy

• Self-reliance

Maslow differed from other humanistic psychologists because he

• based his theory primarily on factor-analytic studies.

• devoted his attention to psychologically healthy people.

• produced objectively testable scientific hypotheses.

• did not see needs as primary determinants of personality.

Carl Rogers believed that when people feel they are not themselves as they often do, it is because they sense

• incongruence between their self-concept and their actual thoughts or behavior.

• incongruence between their own ideal self and that most respected by their culture.

• conflict between the anima and animus.

• conflict between the phenomenological self and the actualizing self.

Carl Rogers believed if a child received feeling of total love and acceptance, he/she would be able to self-actualize and become his/her ideal self. The "feeling of total love and acceptance" is an example of

• conditions of worth

• unconditional positive regard

• actualizing tendency

• self-worth

He claimed that all people are unique because has a different combination of traits.

• Gordon Allport

• Hans Eysenck

• David Buss

• Erik Erickson

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NGSS.HS-LS3-2

Based on Allport's theory, ______________ are traits that are so much a part who the person is, you can define person by the trait.

• Cardinal traits

• Central traits

• Secondary traits

• Primary traits

Bree was known as a student to be very conservative in her ways of talking and dressing up and reserved in dealing with people. Right after graduating from college, she was given a chance to work in an advertising company given her high level of intelligence and creativity. Not long after, she had a chance to be assigned overseas and had a chance to meet and work with known personalities in the advertising world. Five years after, she attended their college reunion and was observed different from her old self now seen smart and outspoken. The interpersonal traits that have changed over the years can be called

• Cardinal traits

• Central traits

• Secondary traits

• Primary traits

Following Bree's changes, she remained modest and conservative in her manner of dressing and act in spite of the exposure to the modern world. Her conservative ways in said to be her

• Cardinal traits

• Central traits

• Secondary traits

• Primary Traits

The Five-Factor Model began as an attempt to identify basic personality traits as revealed by factor analysis. It was investigated by

• Rotter and Mischel

• McCrae and Costa

• Eysenck and Cattell

• Freud and Jung

Raymond Cattell who is a trait theorist applied a technique called ________________ to the questionnaire data they collected.

• factor analysis

• free association

• projective testing

• pseudopsychological assessment