This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Cbse > Class 11 > Arts Humanities > Psychology > Class 11 Psychology Chapter 10 Personality – Quiz 31 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Class 11 Psychology Chapter 10 Personality Quiz 31 (46 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. The trait theory researches and defines personality throught: A) The struggle between the ID & Superego. B) The perception and interpretation of ink images. C) Stable and lasting behavior patters. D) Aspects found only in the subconscious. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Stable and lasting behavior patters. 2. In the trait theory created by Hippocrates, how many "humors" did humans have? A) Two. B) Four. C) Five. D) Three. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Four. 3. According to Jung, this is the repository of universal memories. It helps explain why we see common themes in cultures across the world (ex:human origin stories, good v. evil, etc.) A) Identification. B) Pleasure principle. C) Projective test. D) Collective unconscious. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Collective unconscious. 4. The idea that behavior should be understood relative to one's culture. Fill in the blank: ..... A) Universalism. B) Cultural Assimilation. C) Ethnocentrism. D) Cultural Relativism. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Cultural Relativism. 5. According to Abraham Maslow, developing one's potential to its fullest extent results in ..... A) Safety. B) Self-actualization. C) Belongingness. D) Self-esteem. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Self-actualization. 6. Taking out one's anger on an object that is not the source of the anger A) Projection. B) Displacement. C) Repression. D) Reaction formation. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Displacement. 7. .) Abraham Maslow's theory focuses on a lifelong process of striving to realize one's potential that is known as: A) SUBLIMATION. B) SELF ACTUALIZATION. C) PSYCHIC DETERMINISM. D) HUMANISM. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) SELF ACTUALIZATION. 8. What is operant conditioning? A) Learning by watching others. B) Shaping behavior through administration of rewards and punishment. C) Associating eating with salivating. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Shaping behavior through administration of rewards and punishment. 9. His Birth Order Personality Theory Has been studied and used by many personality psychologists A) Albert Bandura. B) Sigmund Freud. C) Alfred Adler. D) Carl Rogers. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Alfred Adler. 10. Carl Rogers' view of personality structure centers on a single construct, and that is A) The self-concept. B) Ego. C) Personality traits. D) The environment. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The self-concept. 11. According to Freud, which part of the personality operates on the reality principle? A) Superego. B) Unconscious. C) Ego. D) Id. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Ego. 12. Mischel is most interested in most interested in the influence of A) Instincts. B) The situation. C) Unconscious forces. D) Personality traits. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The situation. 13. What is the main idea behind the Big Five personality traits model? A) Personality is unpredictable. B) Personality can be categorized into five dimensions. C) Personality is shaped by environment. D) Personality is determined by genetics. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Personality can be categorized into five dimensions. 14. ..... is love, affection, and respect with no string attached, but ..... is love, affection, respect, and warmth that depend, or seem to depend, on doing what those people want. A) Unconditional Positive Regard; Conditional Positive Regard. B) Conditional Positive Regard; Unconditional Positive Regard. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Unconditional Positive Regard; Conditional Positive Regard. 15. Which term do learning theorists use to describe learning behavior by watching others? A) Constant conditioning. B) Operant conditioning. C) Classical conditioning. D) Socialization. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Socialization. 16. What is the 6th trait added by the HEXACO Model? A) Emotionality. B) Openness. C) Agreeableness. D) Honesty-Humility. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Honesty-Humility. 17. Which temperament type is lively, cheerful, and extroverted but often forgetful? A) Melancholic. B) Sanguine. C) Phlegmatic. D) Choleric. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Sanguine. 18. Someone who is Practical, routine oriented, and conforming is low in what Big 5 category? A) Agreeableness. B) Openness. C) Neurotic. D) Extroversion. E) Conscientiousness. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Openness. 19. Which defense mechanism involves redirecting emotions to a substitute target? A) Projection. B) Displacement. C) Denial. D) Regression. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Displacement. 20. What is Dunbar's Number, which refers to the approximate number of meaningful social connections a person can maintain? A) ~150. B) ~50. C) ~1000. D) ~500. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) ~150. 21. According to Sigmund and Anna Freud, which of the following is true about psychological defense mechanisms? A) They operate on the "moralistic principle" and give us a sense of what we should and should not do. B) They deny and distort reality in some way. C) They motivate most of our speech, thoughts, feelings, or actions. D) They are compulsive feelings and behaviors. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) They deny and distort reality in some way. 22. In the context of an athlete's performance, what does 'idiosyncrasy' refer to? A) A general pattern of behavior in team sports. B) The unique combination of traits and behaviors that characterize an individual athlete. C) The study of sports teams and their cultures. D) The biological study of an athlete's brain. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The unique combination of traits and behaviors that characterize an individual athlete. 23. Bandura discussed this as the back and forth influences between traits, behaviors, and environment. A) Reciprocal determinism. B) Social-cognition. C) Terror management. D) Self-efficacy. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Reciprocal determinism. 24. What is the consequence of a defender consistently acting out of character on the field? A) Becoming more introverted. B) Neglecting self-care. C) Developing new playing styles. D) Losing key matches in their career. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Neglecting self-care. 25. Jimmy has constantly heard that he is not a good student, after a while starts to act how people percieve him. This recent behavioral change supports the A) Groupthink. B) Social influence. C) Group polarization. D) Self-fufilling prophecy. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Self-fufilling prophecy. 26. A defense mechanism which uses self-deception to justify unacceptable behavior. Ex. When you are not invited to a party you say "I didn't want to go to that party anyway. Everyone there is lame" A) Denial. B) Repression. C) Rationalization. D) Displacement. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Rationalization. 27. Projective techniques are unlike other types of test-data because A) Everyone receives the same instructions. B) They reveal responses that indicate personality. C) They use a standard testing situation. D) Responses are usually interpreted. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) They use a standard testing situation. 28. If a student has High Extraversion (E) and Low Neuroticism (N), which temperament are they most likely to have? A) Melancholic. B) Phlegmatic. C) Choleric. D) Sanguine. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Sanguine. 29. Lourdes is planning her dream wedding. Her mother is criticizing her every decision. When her mother makes a comment about her weight while in the dressing room of a bridal shop. Lourdes thinks, '' Why can't you just shut your mouth?!" Instead of becoming upset, Lourdes makes an off-hand joke about her weight. This is an example of A) Projection. B) Denial. C) Rationalization. D) Repression. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Repression. 30. This personality type tries to meet the desires of the id in a way that is socially acceptable in the world. It is said to operate on the reality principle A) Selfie. B) Superego. C) Id. D) Ego. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Ego. 31. Many of Ms. Buck's Psych students did poorly on the last test. Due to fundamental attribution error, Ms. Buck might conclude that the class did poorly because ..... A) Not enough time was given for the students to test. B) Students were distracted by Homecoming activities. C) This year's students are lazier than last year's students. D) The test was unfair. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) This year's students are lazier than last year's students. 32. Someone with a high score in Extroversion would be described as A) Quiet, reserved, withdrawn. B) Outgoing, warm, sociable. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Outgoing, warm, sociable. 33. The personality test Teresa is taking involves her describing random patterns of dots. What type of test is she taking? A) An empirically derived test. B) The MMPI. C) A personality inventory. D) A projective test. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) A projective test. 34. What did Sigmund Freud think our personalities depended on? A) The battle of urges between the Id, Ego, and Super-Ego. B) The balance of five elements. C) The balance of four humors. D) Our level of self-actualization. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The battle of urges between the Id, Ego, and Super-Ego. 35. Which of the neo-Freudians would be associated with the inferiority complex and the theory of birth order influencing personality characteristics? A) Carl Jung. B) Anna Freud. C) Alfred Adler. D) Erik Erikson. E) Karen Horney. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Alfred Adler. 36. Imagine that you are a patient of Freud, and he believes that you're completely unconscious part of your mind is trying to satisfy its desires. What part of personality is he talking about? A) Super Ego. B) Id. C) Super Id. D) Ego. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Id. 37. Whitney runs into her old boyfriend at a party. Instead of throwing her glass of soda in his face as she would like, she smiles and says, "It's great to see you again." Whitney is displaying which of the following Freudian defense mechanisms? A) Denial. B) Reaction formation. C) Projection. D) Displacement. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Reaction formation. 38. Mike is frequently anxious and tends to worry excessively about small problems. In terms of the Big Five personality traits, he is likely high in: A) Conscientiousness. B) Agreeableness. C) Neuroticism. D) Openness. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Neuroticism. 39. There is no useful purpose to defense mechanisms, only a person refusal to take responsibility. A) True. B) False. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) False. 40. Tifa has a crush on the new foreign exchange student at school, but instead accuses her best friend Terra of having the crush on him instead. What defense mechanism is being exhibited? A) Rationalization. B) Reaction formation. C) Displacement. D) Sublimation. E) Projection. Show Answer Correct Answer: E) Projection. 41. Rex is asked by their therapist to talk about whatever comes to mind A) Free Association. B) Cathexis. C) Transference. D) Manifest Content. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Free Association. 42. ..... is located just below the surface and contains information we can retrieve when needed. A) Preconscious. B) Conscious. C) Unconscious. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Preconscious. 43. Who developed the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI)? A) Isabel Briggs Myers. B) Katharine Cook Briggs. C) Both Isabel Briggs Myers and Katharine Cook Briggs. D) Carl Jung. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Both Isabel Briggs Myers and Katharine Cook Briggs. 44. Which theory suggests that we inherit our personalities from our parents? A) Social learning theory. B) Interactional theory. C) Trait. D) Psychodynamic approach. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Trait. 45. Wyoming wants to be seen as more conscientious by others. In order to do this, she should make a point of A) Blaming others for her problems with punctuality. B) Completing her assignments on time and only submitting her best-quality work. C) Criticizing people for their annoying habits. D) Getting outside and meeting people in order to build more social relationships and higher levels of support for herself. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Completing her assignments on time and only submitting her best-quality work. 46. Which of the following is NOT a characteristic of the Big Five trait 'Agreeableness'? A) Being cooperative and compassionate towards others. B) Being careful and disciplined. C) Valuing getting along with others. D) Being friendly and optimistic. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Being careful and disciplined. ← PreviousRelated QuizzesArts Humanities QuizzesClass 11 QuizzesClass 11 Psychology Chapter 10 Personality Quiz 1Class 11 Psychology Chapter 10 Personality Quiz 2Class 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 8 🏠 Back to Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books