This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Class 11 > Class 11 Psychology Chapter 10 Personality – Quiz 17 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Class 11 Psychology Chapter 10 Personality Quiz 17 (25 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Learned helplessness is term coined by A) Maslow. B) Seligman. C) Lazarus. D) Skinner. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Seligman. 2. What does personality refer to in psychology? A) A person's intelligence level. B) A person's social status. C) A person's unique patterns of thought, emotion, and behavior. D) A person's physical appearance. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) A person's unique patterns of thought, emotion, and behavior. 3. Implicit bias is often measured by which test? A) IAT. B) SAT. C) GRE. D) ACT. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) IAT. 4. This individual believes that they have control over their own environment. A) Personal control. B) Internal locus of control. C) Spotlight effect. D) Learned helplessness. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Personal control. 5. Neo-Freudian. Believed navigating social interactions as a child are important in personality development. Identified concept of INFERIORITY COMPLEX. A) Albert Bandura. B) Alfred Adler. C) Karen Horneye. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Alfred Adler. 6. What is the focus of trait perspectives as mentioned in the text? A) How personality develops. B) What personality looks like. C) How personality influences behavior. D) How personality is measured. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) What personality looks like. 7. Which of the following workplace stress variables best applies to someone who works at a fast food restaurant while in college, who worries about people knowing where she works. A) Workload. B) Mental Challenge. C) Physical Challenge. D) Clarity of Job Description. E) Job Status. Show Answer Correct Answer: E) Job Status. 8. Collective unconsciousness and archetypes are terms related to ..... A) Adler. B) Freud. C) Horney. D) Jung. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Jung. 9. Which personality type is associated with a higher risk of heart disease? A) Type C. B) Type B. C) Type A. D) Type D. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Type A. 10. The tendency to comply with a large request if one has previously complied with a small request is known as ..... A) Bystander Effect. B) Attribution Theory. C) Foot-in-the-Door Phenonomon. D) Groupthink. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Foot-in-the-Door Phenonomon. 11. Internal Locus of Control means A) Blaming others for what you did. B) Owning your own actions. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Owning your own actions. 12. Which is not true of the sample in Kroll and Crenshaw's study? A) 387 athletes from different sports. B) Elite senior level athletes. C) Karateka, gymnasts, wrestlers, American Footballers. D) Male and female athletes included. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Male and female athletes included. 13. Personality psychology is the only part of psychology that ..... A) Focuses on individual differences. B) Focuses on the whole person. C) Focuses on dispositional inference. D) Focuses on specific mechanisms of the mind. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Focuses on individual differences. 14. Our shared behaviors, ideas, attitudes, values and traditions are our ..... A) Culture. B) Ethnicity. C) Nurture. D) Civilization. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Culture. 15. Which theory involves the belief that personality is shaped by interactions with the environment? A) Social-Cognitive Theory. B) Psychodynamic Theory. C) Humanistic Psychology. D) Trait Theory. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Social-Cognitive Theory. 16. Characteristic patterns of behavior and motivation are called: A) Aptitudes. B) Fixations. C) Projections. D) Traits. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Traits. 17. Hans Eysenck's theory of personality primarily focused on: A) Archetypes and the collective unconscious. B) Hierarchy of needs. C) Biological basis of personality traits. D) Inferiority complex and compensation. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Biological basis of personality traits. 18. What psychological approach has its roots in Humanistic Psychology? A) Trait. B) Psychdynamic. C) Social-Cognitive. D) Positive psychology. E) Behaviorist. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Positive psychology. 19. A student who blames their poor grade on the difficulty of the test, but attributes a classmate's poor grade to laziness, is demonstrating which bias? A) Actor-Observer Bias. B) Self-Fulfilling Prophecy. C) Conformity. D) Central Route Persuasion. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Actor-Observer Bias. 20. Which words are most closely associated with Conscientiousness? A) Assertiveness, leadership, communication. B) Dependability, organization, planning. C) Curiosity, creativity, imagination. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Dependability, organization, planning. 21. When Devin failed to make the cast of the high school musical, he vandalized the sets of the play. His behavior is an example of ..... A) Group polarization. B) Mere exposure theory. C) Deindividuation. D) Frustration-agression principle. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Frustration-agression principle. 22. Which of the following is NOT one of the three main components in the definition of personality? A) Traits. B) Behaviors. C) Assumptions. D) Emotions. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Assumptions. 23. Big Five openness refers to: A) Emotional stability. B) Imagination, creativity, willingness to try new experiences. C) Social dominance. D) Aggression. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Imagination, creativity, willingness to try new experiences. 24. Unstable vs stableintrovert vs extrovert A) Allport. B) Myers Briggs. C) Eyesneck. D) Rotter. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Eyesneck. 25. What has been one of the criticisms of the trait theory of personality? A) There's too many traits considered to be measurable. B) There's too few traits considered to be measurable. C) The theory doesn't take into account situational factors that may affect behavior. D) The theory isn't observable or empirical and therefore can't be considered a "science" . E) None of the above are valid criticisms of the theory. 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