Class 11 Psychology Chapter 10 Personality Quiz 16 (60 MCQs)

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1. Base or central part of something.
2. Reaction formation
3. Which concept refers to the extent to which research findings can be applied to settings outside the study?
4. An INTROVERT is ..... ?
5. What is the method of testing that involves telling a story about a picture?
6. Freud identified many defense mechanisms, including regression (coping with anxiety by retreating to an earlier developmental stage) and projection (disguising threatening impulses by attributing them to others). All defense mechanisms distort or disguise reality and all are .....
7. Defense mechanisms operate consciously and are used deliberately.
8. One difference between Karen Horney and Sigmund Freud is that Horney emphasized the role of ..... , whereas Freud emphasized the role of .....
9. The id operates on
10. How many dimensions does the Big Five model propose for defining personality?
11. Lizzie refuses to eat her eggs. Their mom sends them to school without eating breakfast.
12. In which defense mechanism do you try and explain the reasoning to justify your actions. Ex:You were late to class because Mr. Emering stopped me in the hallway.
13. Peer groups influence socialization by:
14. A 3-year old child who has been toilet-trained starts wetting the bed after the birth of a sibling. This child uses the defense mechanism of:
15. Fill in the blank:Agreeing to a request from someone with no authority over you is known as .....
16. Which of the following traits is NOT part of the Big Five Personality Model?
17. What is an example of a basic physiological need (according to Maslow)?
18. In order to assess a client's personal growth, Carl Rogers measured the correspondence between ..... and .....
19. A therapists asks a client to describe how they think about close family/friends
20. Which of the following statements is true regarding the developmental psychology of personality?
21. According to McCrae and Costa, Openness to Experience includes which characteristic?
22. Malfunctioning of a scuba diving oxygen tank is an example of what level?
23. Attitude is defined as ..... + emotion.
24. Speaking of Nisbett & Cohen, which best reflects their research design?
25. Which of the following could help boost someone's self-esteem?
26. You decide to set up a dating service based on the Big Five principles of personality. You measure people for their personality types. Which of the following personality types would you think would be the best match?
27. Why is personality considered stable?
28. The psychologist who proposed two personality dimensions:introversion-extroversion and stability-instability
29. The defense mechanism that involves switching an unacceptable impulse into its opposite
30. Fill in the blank:The study that showed people are likely to follow orders that conflict with their morals under authority pressure is called the .....
31. Which of the following is NOT listed as a concept related to how one conceives of oneself?
32. Trait theorists are more concerned with ..... personality than ..... it.
33. How many brain receptors does dopamine touch?
34. What is the term for the statistical method used to identify and group personality traits?
35. Which neurotransmitter is associated with both effects and specific traits in biochemistry?
36. Theory of emotion that suggests physical arousal and emotional experience arise simultaneously.
37. Cross-cultural universality refers to the assumption that
38. A test that yields consistent results is:
39. The modern view of temperament asserts that it .....
40. The principle that governs the operation of the unconscious mind
41. The ..... classifies people according to Carl Jung's personality types
42. Which study design is characterized by observing subjects without manipulating variables?
43. What are the false beliefs experienced by people with schizophrenia called?
44. Humanistic psychology has been most closely associated with an emphasis on the importance of:
45. Level of the mind where thoughts, feeling, memories, and other information are kept that are not easy to bring to consciousness.
46. Which statement best captures why we study personality scientifically?
47. What did Carl Jung call the shared, inherited reservoir of memory traces from our species' history?
48. If people who score high on extraversion also score high on measures of self-esteem, extraversion and self-esteem are
49. Obedience to authority would most likely occur between a:
50. Research has shown that individuals who are made to feel insecure are subsequently
51. Alexis is very organized. She rarely shows up late to meetings and is very reliable.
52. According to Alfred Adler, overcompensation may be found in those who
53. What is the central route in persuasion techniques based on?
54. The people who thought social forces had more to do with our personality than the unconscious did were the:
55. A person who appreciates material things and hardly has idealistic views
56. Ted is friendly and is perceived by others as warm and considerate. He loves to tell jokes at parties. Ted probably obtains high scores on ..... and ..... of the Big Five traits?
57. Having the person and self coincide.
58. What does neuroticism indicate?
59. Who is recognized as the founder of modern personality psychology?
60. Which hardy characteristic is described? "Hardy individuals have a sense of purpose in life. They do not go through the motions but tackle tasks head on, as though they want to rather than have to."