WorksheetsPSY255 - Chpts 7-8
Total questions: 35
Worksheet time: 18mins
Name
Class
Date
1.
Which of the following assumptions underlies the trait approach to personality?
a)
A. Each person belongs in one and only one personality category.
b)
B. We can place a person somewhere along a continuum of behaviors.
c)
C. People in one personality category are distinctly different from people in other categories.
d)
D. Personality can change as a function of the situation the person is in.
2.
The trait approach views personality traits as relatively stable.
a)
True
b)
False
3.
The trait approach takes a _______ perspective.
a)
absolute
b)
relative
c)
situational
d)
individual
4.
Trait theory is most useful as:
a)
A framework for measuring personality in research
b)
A means of helping people through therapy
c)
A comprehensive theory of human behavior
d)
A means of understanding personality formation
5.
Who started the trait perspective?
a)
Gordon Allport
b)
Raymond Catell
c)
Carl Jung
d)
Henry Murray
6.
According to Allport, what are the few, but important traits that characterize people.
a)
Cardinal
b)
Central
c)
Peripheral
d)
Secondary
7.
Niccolo Machiavelli's Machiavellianism is an example of a:
a)
Cardinal Trait
b)
Central Trait
c)
Secondary Trait
d)
Primary Trait
8.
Studying people as "groups" or "types" is to use the ______ approach.
a)
trait
b)
nomothetic
c)
idiographic
d)
morphogenic
9.
Gordon Allport preferred the ____ approach.
a)
nomothetic
b)
idiographic
c)
psychoanalytic
d)
individualistic
10.
To study the combination of trait processes that form the unique personality of a particular individual is to use the:
a)
nomothetic approach
b)
idiographic approach
c)
individualistic approach
d)
trait approach
11.
Henry Murray construct what well-known projective test?
a)
MMPI
b)
Myers Briggs
c)
Rorschach
d)
TAT
12.
Trait theorists, in general, believe that personality traits are _______ _______.
a)
entirely stable
b)
normally distributed
c)
perfectly predictable
d)
mostly useless
13.
Murray believed that _____ were the basic elements that determined personality.
a)
traits
b)
needs
c)
desires
d)
drives
14.
The need for personal achievement and accomplishment describes the need for _________.
a)
power
b)
information
c)
affection
d)
ambition
15.
The need for _____ results in a personality that seeks human connection.
a)
power
b)
information
c)
affection
d)
ambition
16.
People who are motivated to understand how and why things work could be described as being high in need for _______.
a)
power
b)
ambition
c)
material
d)
information
17.
Murray said that the ______ is the situational trigger or stimulus that causes a need to become evident or manifest.
a)
press
b)
push
c)
context
d)
pull
18.
What is the mathematical process that is used to determine the major underlying components that describe the communal variance of data?
a)
Calculus
b)
Factor Analysis
c)
Regression Analysis
d)
Analysis of Variance
19.
Which theorist began the use of factor analysis to the assessment of personality dimensionality?
a)
Allport
b)
Murray
c)
Cattell
d)
Costa
20.
What is the most widely used personality assessment in research?
a)
MMPI
b)
Myers Briggs
c)
16 PF
d)
Big 5
21.
Who developed the Big 5?
a)
Cattell
b)
Murray
c)
Fiske
d)
Costa & McCrae
22.
The 16 PF and the Big 5 were developed from the same data using factor analysis.
a)
True
b)
False
23.
Cattell used three types of data in factor analysis: _______, ________, and _______.
a)
Life, Experimental, Questionnaire
b)
Life, Test, and Questionnaire
c)
Diary, Experimental, Survey
d)
Qualitative, Quantitative, Mixed
24.
Personality assessments often include means by which fakers and liars can be identified.
a)
True
b)
False
25.
The _____ is one of the most widely used clinical personality measures.
a)
Big 5
b)
TAT
c)
Myers Briggs
d)
MMPI
26.
When people answer surveys in particular ways in an attempt to come across in a certain way, this is called:
a)
Lying
b)
Faking
c)
Response Bias
d)
Tricksy Hobbitses
27.
Trait differences in personality account for approximately __ percent of the variance when averaged across studies.
a)
5
b)
10
c)
30
d)
50
28.
Many trait theorists argue that the way ______ is/are measured causes the importance of traits to be underestimated in studies.
a)
personality
b)
variance
c)
behavior
d)
traits
29.
People high in need for achievement tend to take ______ risks.
a)
no
b)
minimal
c)
moderate
d)
extreme
30.
The three dimensions of attribution are:
a)
Stability, Locus, Controllability
b)
Fixity, Location, Control
c)
Stability, Centrality, Controllability
d)
Valence, Standard, Domain
31.
The goal orientation that leads to the most desirable outcomes in personality research is:
a)
performance-approach
b)
performance-avoidance
c)
mastery-approach
d)
mastery-avoidance
32.
If parents provide appropriate encouragement and permit initiative are likely to raise a child high in:
a)
social anxiety
b)
need for achievement
c)
hostility
d)
external locus of control
33.
Someone who blames the difficulty of the test for their failure on it is using a(n) ________ attributional style.
a)
external, uncontrollable
b)
internal, uncontrollable
c)
external, controllable
d)
internal, controllable
34.
Personality is a predictive factor in early death.
a)
True
b)
False
35.
The dimensions of emotion when studied from a trait perspective are:
a)
stability, locus, controllability
b)
valence, style, standard
c)
affectivity, intensity, expressiveness
d)
orientation, strength, manifestation
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