Chapter 11 Quiz

What is personality?

• A person’s typical style of behaving, thinking, and feeling

• Choices people make in response to cultural norms

• Past events that have shaped a person’s current behavior

• Physiological predispositions that manifest themselves psychologically

Which of the following is NOT one of the Big Five personality factors?

• Conscientiousness

• Agreeableness

• Neuroticism

• Orderliness

What is the goal of personality tests?

• To help people understand themselves and be able to make better decisions

• to be able to win in arguments

• to get a better grade in school

• No goal, they are just for fun

What does having high self-efficacy mean for someone?

• Believe that they can achieve their goals

• Does not believe they have the ability to achieve their goals

• Social situation easily affects the way one thinks

• Social situation does not affects the way one thinks

Which of Freud’s systems of the mind would lead you to, if hungry, start grabbing food off people’s plate upon entering a restaurant?

• The id

• The ego

• The superego

• Repression

Compelling evidence for the importance of biological factors in personality is best seen in studies of

• Parenting styles

• Identical twins reared apart

• Brain damage

• Factor analysis

Projective techniques to assess personality involve

• Personal inventories

• Self-reporting

• Responses to ambiguous stimuli

• Actuarial methodolog