This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Class 11 > Class 11 Psychology Chapter 10 Personality – Quiz 20 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Class 11 Psychology Chapter 10 Personality Quiz 20 (25 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. The trait approach supports the idea that personality traits are fixed (meaning that they don't change) at a young age and account for consistent behavior in different situations. A) True. B) False. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 2. In Steinberg, Dornbusch, and Brown, which group was found to have the most peer support for academics? A) White. B) African-American. C) Hispanic. D) Asian. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Asian. 3. Which trait reflects the extent to which a person is outgoing, sociable, and energized by social interactions? A) Conscientiousness. B) Extraversion. C) Neuroticism. D) Agreeableness. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Extraversion. 4. Which Defense Mechanism:You fail a test and say "Those test questions were bad, they didn't make any sense" even though you didn't spend any time studying A) Rationalization. B) Repression. C) Projection. D) Reaction Formation. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Rationalization. 5. Which personality perspective is criticized for ignoring biological influences? A) Psychoanalytic. B) Trait. C) Social-cognitive. D) Humanistic. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Social-cognitive. 6. Maslow and Rogers believed that human beings are always striving to fulfill their innate capacities and capabilities and to become everything that their genetic potential will allow them to become. This striving for fulfillment is called the ..... A) Self-Actualizing Tendency. B) Id, Ego, Superego. C) Anxiety. D) Self-serving bias. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Self-Actualizing Tendency. 7. A defense mechanism that involves disguising an impulse by attributing it to another person A) Reaction formation. B) Rationalization. C) Displacement. D) Projection. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Projection. 8. Attributing one's own unacceptable feelings and thoughts to others and not yourself A) Sublimation. B) Projection. C) Rationalization. D) Reaction formation. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Projection. 9. The Myers-Briggs Test is considered to be a(n) ..... A) Objective Test. B) Projective Test. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Objective Test. 10. Inferiority complex A) Alfred Adler. B) Julian Rotter. C) Abraham Maslow. D) John Watson. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Alfred Adler. 11. The Big Five personality traits are studied under which domain? A) Social. B) Biological. C) Adjustment. D) Dispositional. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Dispositional. 12. How many personality "factors" are suggested to encompass several more specific traits? A) A large number. B) A small number. C) Only one. D) None. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) A small number. 13. Psychologists have found it is difficult to define personality because A) Psychologists are not smart enough to determine the boundaries of human personality. B) Personality has a common sense definition that psychologist find almost impossible to falsify. C) The idea of studying human personality is a new concept in psychology. D) Any definition of personality needs to be sufficiently comprehensive to include a multitude of concepts. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Any definition of personality needs to be sufficiently comprehensive to include a multitude of concepts. 14. Selye came up with General Adaptation Syndrome to describe the body's stress response, and its 3 phases are: A) Alarm, resistance, exhaustation. B) Alarm, relapse, emergency. C) Alarm, relapse, emergent. D) Alarm, restraint, effect. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Alarm, resistance, exhaustation. 15. What can the assessment and measurement of personality traits help psychologists with? A) Predicting the weather. B) Assessing physical health. C) None of the above. D) Predicting behavior, assessing mental health, and informing psychological interventions. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Predicting behavior, assessing mental health, and informing psychological interventions. 16. Who developed a psychoanalytic personality theory which involved the id, ego and superego? A) Carl Jung. B) Sigmund Freud. C) Alfred Adler. D) Erik Erikson. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Sigmund Freud. 17. People are less likely to help in groups due to ..... of responsibility. A) Diffusion. B) Concentration. C) Amplification. D) Reduction. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Diffusion. 18. Acting in a childlike way to get attention A) Repression. B) Regression. C) Displacement. D) Projection. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Regression. 19. The P.T. Barnum Effect refers to people accepting vague personality descriptions as uniquely accurate. A) True. B) False. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 20. What is the primary goal of personality assessments in psychology? A) To diagnose mental disorders. B) To predict future behavior and outcomes. C) To measure intelligence. D) To assess physical health. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) To predict future behavior and outcomes. 21. Which of the following combines the greatest number of approaches to combating prejudice? A) Equal-status contact activities. B) Activities that engage students with superordinate goals. C) Activities that require students to engage with mutual interdependence. D) Classrooms that are experiencing the "jigsaw" method of instruction. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Classrooms that are experiencing the "jigsaw" method of instruction. 22. Who was teh person that focused on humanistic psychology? A) Sigmund Freud. B) John B. Watson. C) B.F. Skinner. D) Carl Rogers. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Carl Rogers. 23. What is the primary focus of trait psychology? A) Behavioral changes. B) Stable characteristics. C) Emotional responses. D) Cognitive processes. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Stable characteristics. 24. What does the passage suggest about the role of genetics in personality development? A) Genetics play no role in personality development. B) Genetics are the sole factor in personality development. C) Genetics contribute to personality development but are not the only factor. D) Genetics are less important than environmental factors in personality development. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Genetics contribute to personality development but are not the only factor. 25. What is the 'Big Five' personality traits acronym given in the video? A) CANOE. B) OCEAN. C) TREE. D) FISH. 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