WSC Personality Quiz

Personality is thought to be ________.

• short term and easily changed

• a pattern of short-term characteristics

• unstable and short term

• long term, stable and not easily changed

The long-standing traits and patterns that propel individuals to consistently think, feel, and behave in specific ways are known as ________.

• psychodynamic

• temperament

• humors

• personality

________ is credited with the first comprehensive theory of personality.

• Hippocrates

• Gall

• Wundt

• Freud

The id operates on the ________ principle.

• reality

• pleasure

• instant gratification

• guilt

The ego defense mechanism in which a person who is confronted with anxiety returns to a more immature behavioral stage is called ________.

• repression

• regression

• reaction formation

• rationalization

The universal bank of ideas, images, and concepts that have been passed down through the generations from our ancestors refers to ________.

• archetypes

• intuition

• collective unconscious

• personality types

Your level of confidence in your own abilities is known as ________.

• self-efficacy

• self-concept

• self-control

• self-esteem

Jane believes that she got a bad grade on her psychology paper because her professor doesn’t like her. Jane most likely has an _______ locus of control.

• internal

• external

• intrinsic

• extrinsic

Self-concept refers to ________.

• our level of confidence in our own abilities

• all of our thoughts and feelings about ourselves

• the belief that we control our own outcomes

• the belief that our outcomes are outside of our control

The way a person reacts to the world, starting when they are very young, including the person’s activity level is known as ________.

• traits

• temperament

• heritability

• personality