This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Cbse > Class 11 > Arts Humanities > Psychology > Class 11 Psychology Chapter 10 Personality – Quiz 2 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Class 11 Psychology Chapter 10 Personality Quiz 2 (60 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. His Social Learning Theory also included a Bo Bo Doll Experiment A) Sigmund Freud. B) Abrahanm Maslow. C) Albert Bandura. D) Alfred Adler. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Albert Bandura. 2. Locus of control A) Julian Rotter. B) Alfred Adler. C) Abraham Maslow. D) John Watson. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Julian Rotter. 3. Psychologists have found it difficult to define personality because A) Any definition of personality needs to be sufficiently comprehensive to include a multitude of concepts. B) The idea of studying human personality is a rather new concept in psychology. C) Personality has a common sense definition that psychologists find hard to falsify. D) Psychologists are not smart enough to determine the boundaries of human personality. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Any definition of personality needs to be sufficiently comprehensive to include a multitude of concepts. 4. The scope of personality includes studying: A) Cognitive styles. B) Social behavior. C) Emotional patterns. D) All of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) All of the above. 5. The ..... layer of consciousness contains all the drives, urges, or instincts that are outside awareness but nonetheless motivate most of one's speech, thoughts, feelings, or actions. A) Subconscious. B) Unconscious. C) Preconscious. D) Conscious. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Unconscious. 6. What is the primary purpose of the Rorschach Inkblot test in psychological assessments? A) To assess intelligence. B) To describe what participants see in inkblots. C) To evaluate artistic skills. D) To test memory recall. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) To describe what participants see in inkblots. 7. Believed that culture is the driver in the formation of personality, not anatomy; and, emphasized a child's need for love and security A) Sigmund Freud. B) Karen Horney. C) Alfred Adler. D) Karl Jung. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Karen Horney. 8. Which approach to personality would be most likely to emphasize free will and personal growth? A) Humanism. B) Psychoanalysis. C) Trait theory. D) Behaviorism. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Humanism. 9. A reserved, withdrawn person who is preoccupied with his or her inner thoughts and feelings A) Introvert. B) Personality. C) Unconscious. D) Id. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Introvert. 10. What is the difference between introverts and extroverts? A) Introverts tend to be more emotional, while extroverts tend to be more rational. B) Introverts tend to be more aggressive, while extroverts tend to be more passive. C) Introverts tend to be more intelligent, while extroverts tend to be more social. D) Introverts tend to be inward-focused, while extroverts tend to be outward-focused. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Introverts tend to be inward-focused, while extroverts tend to be outward-focused. 11. In which paradigm is the concept of self more focused on individuals rather than the discipline of psychology? A) Positive. B) Constructivist. C) Behaviorist. D) Postpositivist. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Positive. 12. What is the frustration-aggression principle? A) Aggression is a result of genetic influences. B) Aggression is a learned behavior. C) Frustration creates anger, which can generate aggression. D) Aggression is influenced by social scripts. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Frustration creates anger, which can generate aggression. 13. What is the consensus among researchers regarding the nature vs. nurture debate as per the passage? A) Nature is more important than nurture. B) Nurture is more important than nature. C) Both nature and nurture are integral to personality development. D) Neither nature nor nurture significantly influence personality. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Both nature and nurture are integral to personality development. 14. What is the term for the tendency to compare ourselves to others to evaluate our own abilities and opinions? A) Social Comparison. B) Relative Deprivation. C) Self-Serving Bias. D) Cognitive Dissonance. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Social Comparison. 15. Which theory states that emotions result from the perception of bodily arousal? A) Schachter-Singer Theory of Emotion. B) Cognitive Appraisal Theory. C) Cannon-Bard Theory of Emotion. D) James-Lange Theory of Emotion. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) James-Lange Theory of Emotion. 16. Kobasa (1979) states that psychological hardiness acts as a ..... (or protection) against the negative effects of stress. A) Buffon. B) Button. C) Buffer. D) Baffle. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Buffer. 17. When you by a car because it is really reliable, well built, and you have complete a lot of research about the vehicle. A) Central Route of Persuasion. B) Peripheral route of persuasion. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Central Route of Persuasion. 18. Who used psychoanalysis, dream analysis and hypnosis to help patients explore their unconscious? A) Karen Horney. B) Carl Jung. C) Erik Erikson. D) Sigmund Freud. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Sigmund Freud. 19. Which of the following is a common method for estimating heritability? A) Interviews. B) Experimental design. C) Twin and adoption studies. D) Longitudinal self-reports. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Twin and adoption studies. 20. Which perspective focuses on reinforcement and punishment in shaping personality? A) Biological. B) Cognitive. C) Behavioral. D) Humanistic. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Behavioral. 21. The following traits belong to which researchers?openness, conscientiousness, extroversion, agreeableness, and neuroticism A) Cantell. B) Seligman. C) McCrae & Costa. D) Myers Briggs. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) McCrae & Costa. 22. Helping others without benefit to oneself A) Halo effect. B) Superordinate. C) Culture. D) Altruism. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Altruism. 23. "Reciprocal Determinism" is a social-cognitve term most closely associated with A) Abraham Maslow. B) Sigmund Freud. C) Albert Bandura. D) Gordon Allport. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Albert Bandura. 24. This situation is a good example of which defense mechanism? "Stomping your feet and slamming your bedroom door after you and your parents get into a fight." A) Reaction Formation. B) Denial. C) Compensation. D) Regression. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Regression. 25. Believing that others are experiencing the same feelings that you are experiencing is an example of which defense mechanism? A) Projection. B) Compensation. C) Displacement. D) Reaction formation. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Projection. 26. Hidden true animalistic wants and desires; operates on pleasure principles A) ID. B) EGO. C) SUPEREGO. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) ID. 27. The use of reinforcers to influence people to perform socially desirable behaviors A) Social Learning/Socialization. B) Humanistic. C) Observation Learning. D) Behaviorism. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Behaviorism. 28. The most important criterion for generating a testable theory is A) Its comprehensiveness. B) Its compatibility with other theories. C) Its precision of prediction. D) The generalisability of its predictions. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Its precision of prediction. 29. This explains who a person actually is, their personality. A) Situation. B) Disposition. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Disposition. 30. Who is known for their theory involving collective unconscious and archetypes? A) Sigmund Freud. B) Carl Jung. C) Karen Horney. D) Erik Erikson. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Carl Jung. 31. Which of the two dimensions of personality have the Eysencks emphasized? A) Extraversion-introversion and emotional stability-instability. B) Internal-external locus of control and extraversion-introversion. C) Internal-external locus of control and emotional stability-instability. D) Melancholic-phlegmatic and choleric-sanguine. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Extraversion-introversion and emotional stability-instability. 32. In Milgram's study on obedience, the two-thirds of the subjects ..... A) Refused to shock the learner even once. B) Complied with the experiment until the learner started crying out in pain. C) Continued with the experiment until the learner began begging for it to stop. D) Continued all the way to 450 volts. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Continued all the way to 450 volts. 33. Carl Rogers emphasized the importance of ..... in regards to healthy personality development. A) Unconditional positive regard. B) The collective unconscious. C) The primary care giver. D) Reciprocal determinism. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Unconditional positive regard. 34. A student wants an assessment that is scientifically derived, widely available, and uses a series of questions to indicate dominant traits. Which option best fits these criteria? A) Humanistic therapy sessions. B) Psychoanalytic dream analysis. C) Personality inventories used in trait assessments. D) Projective tests. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Personality inventories used in trait assessments. 35. What is the main purpose of twin studies in behavioral genetics? A) To understand the effects of environmental factors. B) To determine the proportion of shared DNA between twins. C) To study the neural bases of personality. D) To analyze the effects of biochemistry on behavior. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) To determine the proportion of shared DNA between twins. 36. Creative, funny, moody are examples of ..... A) Personality traits. B) Physical traits. C) Character traits. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Personality traits. 37. Aidan is in the process of trying to become like his father. He has unconscious sexual feelings for his mother, but he is able to ward off his guilt by identifying with his father rather than showing the jealousy he feels toward him. According to Sigmund Freud, Aidan is in the ..... psychosexual stage of development. A) Oral. B) Anal. C) Phallic. D) Latency. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Phallic. 38. A projective test consisting of a set of ambiguous pictures A) TAT test. B) Rorschach. C) Factor analysis. D) MMPI. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) TAT test. 39. Trait theorists believe: A) Only intelligence matters. B) Environment only matters. C) Traits are unmeasurable. D) Traits are quantifiable. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Traits are quantifiable. 40. A ..... is a relatively stable personality tendency that guides one's thoughts and actions across various conditions. A) Cluster. B) Dimension. C) Behavioral constant. D) Trait. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Trait. 41. A person who is very sad or hopeless A) Thoughtful. B) Easy-going. C) Considerate. D) Gloomy. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Gloomy. 42. People who assume that their own actions and decisions directly affect the consequences they experience are said to have a ..... locus of control, whereas people who assume that their lives are more controlled by powerful others, luck, or fate are said to have a ..... locus of control. A) External; Internal. B) Internal; External. C) Introvert; Extrovert. D) Extrovert; Introvert. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Internal; External. 43. What effect does getting married have on personality, according to studies? A) Increases emotional stability. B) Decreases conscientiousness. C) Decreases openness to experience. D) Increases extraversion. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Increases emotional stability. 44. Which psychologist published the Three-Factor Theory of personality? A) Floyd Allport. B) Gordon Allport. C) Raymond Cattel. D) Hans Eysenck. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Hans Eysenck. 45. Which neo-Freudian theorist emphasized the influence of the collective unconscious in personality development? A) Jung. B) Maslow. C) Horney. D) Adler. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Jung. 46. Which of the following is NOT one of the Big Five personality traits? A) Determination. B) Neuroticism. C) Openness. D) Extraversion. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Determination. 47. What is self-esteem? A) The capacity to alter one's responses. B) The belief in one's ability to perform tasks. C) The extent to which an individual likes, values, and accepts the self. D) The explicit knowledge of personal characteristics. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The extent to which an individual likes, values, and accepts the self. 48. Defense Mechanism:Refusing to accept the reality of something that makes you anxious. A) Rationalization. B) Denial. C) Projection. D) Repression. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Denial. 49. The best personality inventory for assessing mental illness symptoms as well as traits. A) Rorschach. B) Myers-Briggs. C) MMPI. D) TAT. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) MMPI. 50. What is the central theme of the video regarding personality psychology? A) It only focuses on negative traits. B) It is irrelevant in modern society. C) It helps to predict future behavior. D) It is a purely theoretical field. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) It helps to predict future behavior. 51. Unknowingly placing an unpleasant memory or thought in the unconscious so that we are not anxious about them; the primary defense mechanism A) Repression. B) Displacement. C) Regression. D) Sublimation. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Repression. 52. Most basic needs-food, water, shelter, sleep, air ..... A) Social needs. B) Psychological needs. C) Self-actualization needs. D) Physiological needs. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Physiological needs. 53. What need was Maslow expressing when he said that "what a man can be, he must be" ? A) The need for unconditioned love. B) The need to achieve. C) The need for superiority. D) The need to self-actualize. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) The need to self-actualize. 54. According to cognitive dissonance theory, human beings are motivated to A) Reduced tensions produced by inconsistent thoughts. B) Satisfy basic needs such as hunger before proceeding to higher needs such as self-actualization. C) Respond to an inborn need to pass their genes to the next generation. D) Maintain an optimal level of arousal. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Reduced tensions produced by inconsistent thoughts. 55. Neuroticism reflects: A) Stability. B) Emotional instability and anxiety. C) Assertiveness. D) Friendliness. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Emotional instability and anxiety. 56. A highly conscientious person is usually: A) Disorganized and carefree. B) Impulsive. C) Responsible and reliable. D) Reserved and shy. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Responsible and reliable. 57. Part of the personality that is in touch with reality A) Ego. B) Leggomaheggo. C) Id. D) Super Ego. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Ego. 58. Beliefs people have across cultures are called: A) Superego. B) Unconditional Positive Regard. C) Universal Archetypes. D) Inferiority Complex. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Universal Archetypes. 59. What did Neo-Freudian Keren Horney believe was the foundation of personality development? A) Helplessness and isolation. B) Differences between males and females. C) Cultural variables and social expectations. D) The collective unconscious. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Helplessness and isolation. 60. Personality psychology primarily studies ..... A) How intelligence affects behavior. B) The short-term causes of emotion. C) Ow people's thoughts vary during the day. D) Enduring patterns of thoughts, feelings, and behaviors. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Enduring patterns of thoughts, feelings, and behaviors. ← PreviousNext →Related QuizzesArts Humanities QuizzesClass 11 QuizzesClass 11 Psychology Chapter 10 Personality Quiz 1Class 11 Psychology Chapter 10 Personality Quiz 3Class 11 Psychology Chapter 10 Personality Quiz 4Class 11 Psychology Chapter 10 Personality Quiz 5Class 11 Psychology Chapter 10 Personality Quiz 6Class 11 Psychology Chapter 10 Personality Quiz 7Class 11 Psychology Chapter 10 Personality Quiz 8Class 11 Psychology Chapter 10 Personality Quiz 9 🏠 Back to Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books