Measuring Personality | Crash Course Quiz

According to Hippocrates, what determines personality?

• Balance of phlegm, blood, and yellow and black bile

• The alignment of stars at birth

• The balance of five elements: earth, wind, water, metal, and fire

• The balance of three mind-body principles called doshas

What does traditional Chinese medicine believe our personalities depend on?

• The balance of four humors

• The balance of five elements: earth, wind, water, metal, and fire

• Our birth order in the family

• The balance of three doshas

What did Sigmund Freud think our personalities depended on?

• The battle of urges between the Id, Ego, and Super-Ego

• The balance of five elements

• The balance of four humors

• Our level of self-actualization

What are the Big Five personality traits according to modern trait researchers?

• Openness, Conscientiousness, Extraversion, Agreeableness, Neuroticism

• Intelligence, Attractiveness, Wealth, Creativity, Athleticism

• Blood, Phlegm, Yellow Bile, Black Bile

• Humor, Empathy, Courage, Patience, Determination

Who proposed the social cognitive perspective on personality?

• Abraham Maslow

• Gordon Allport

• Alfred Bandura

• Carl Jung

What concept did Alfred Bandura introduce to describe the interaction between traits and social context?

• Cognitive dissonance

• Reciprocal determinism

• Trait flexibility

• Social mimicry

What does an internal locus of control imply?

• Belief in fate and destiny

• Indifference towards one's ability to influence events

• Perception that one controls their own environment

• Feeling that external forces control one's life

Which personality test is known for its use of inkblots?

• Myers-Briggs Type Indicator

• Thematic Apperception Test

• Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory

• Rorschach Inkblot Test

What does the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory primarily aim to identify?

• Your Hogwarts house

• Emotional disorders

• Your dominant humor according to ancient Greek medicine

• Your Big Five personality traits

What is the main focus of humanistic theorists in measuring personality?

• The balance of one's bodily humors

• The difference between one's actual self and ideal self

• The accuracy of one's responses to inkblot tests

• One's level of extraversion or introversion