This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Class 11 > Class 11 Psychology Chapter 10 Personality – Quiz 4 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Class 11 Psychology Chapter 10 Personality Quiz 4 (25 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Kobasa (1979) states that psychological hardiness acts as a ..... (or protection) against the negative effects of stress. A) Baffle. B) Buffon. C) Buffer. D) Button. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Buffer. 2. 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. 3. Who used psychoanalysis, dream analysis and hypnosis to help patients explore their unconscious? A) Carl Jung. B) Erik Erikson. C) Sigmund Freud. D) Karen Horney. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Sigmund Freud. 4. 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. 5. Which perspective focuses on reinforcement and punishment in shaping personality? A) Cognitive. B) Behavioral. C) Biological. D) Humanistic. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Behavioral. 6. The following traits belong to which researchers?openness, conscientiousness, extroversion, agreeableness, and neuroticism A) McCrae & Costa. B) Myers Briggs. C) Cantell. D) Seligman. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) McCrae & Costa. 7. Helping others without benefit to oneself A) Culture. B) Superordinate. C) Altruism. D) Halo effect. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Altruism. 8. "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. 9. 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) Denial. B) Compensation. C) Reaction Formation. D) Regression. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Regression. 10. Believing that others are experiencing the same feelings that you are experiencing is an example of which defense mechanism? A) Displacement. B) Projection. C) Reaction formation. D) Compensation. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Projection. 11. 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. 12. The use of reinforcers to influence people to perform socially desirable behaviors A) Behaviorism. B) Observation Learning. C) Social Learning/Socialization. D) Humanistic. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Behaviorism. 13. The most important criterion for generating a testable theory is A) The generalisability of its predictions. B) Its compatibility with other theories. C) Its precision of prediction. D) Its comprehensiveness. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Its precision of prediction. 14. 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. 15. Who is known for their theory involving collective unconscious and archetypes? A) Carl Jung. B) Erik Erikson. C) Sigmund Freud. D) Karen Horney. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Carl Jung. 16. 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. 17. 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. 18. Carl Rogers emphasized the importance of ..... in regards to healthy personality development. A) The collective unconscious. B) Unconditional positive regard. C) Reciprocal determinism. D) The primary care giver. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Unconditional positive regard. 19. 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) Personality inventories used in trait assessments. C) Projective tests. D) Psychoanalytic dream analysis. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Personality inventories used in trait assessments. 20. 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. 21. 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. 22. 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. 23. A projective test consisting of a set of ambiguous pictures A) Factor analysis. B) TAT test. C) MMPI. D) Rorschach. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) TAT test. 24. Trait theorists believe: A) Traits are unmeasurable. B) Traits are quantifiable. C) Only intelligence matters. D) Environment only matters. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Traits are quantifiable. 25. A ..... is a relatively stable personality tendency that guides one's thoughts and actions across various conditions. A) Trait. B) Cluster. C) Dimension. D) Behavioral constant. 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