Advanced Personality Psychology
Final Exam
Course Introduction
Advanced Personality Psychology provides an in-depth exploration of major theories, research, and methodologies related to the study of personality. This course examines contemporary perspectives, including trait, biological, psychoanalytic, humanistic, social-cognitive, and cultural approaches, while critically evaluating their contributions to understanding personality development and assessment. Students analyze empirical findings on personality stability and change, heritability, personality disorders, and the interplay between personality and mental and physical health. Emphasis is placed on current debates, ethical considerations in personality research, and the application of personality models in real-world settings.
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The Person An Introduction to the Science of Personality Psychology 5th Edition by Dan P. McAdams
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Chapter 1: Studying the Person
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Q1) The first step in scientific inquiry is
A) Testing hypotheses
B) Quantifying data
C) Proposing a theory
D) Observing a phenomenon
Answer: D
Q2) In an experiment, the experimental and control groups differ from each other on what basic dimension?
A) The level of the independent variable
B) The level of the dependent variable
C) The level of the extraneous variable
D) The level of the controlled variables
Answer: A
Q3) Compared to social psychology, personality psychology places more emphasis on
A) How people behave when they are alone
B) The problems that people face in modern life
C) The universal features of human nature
D) How different people behave differently in the same situation
Answer: D
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Chapter 2: Evolution and Human Nature
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Q1) Kin selection increases inclusive fitness because it
A) Promotes one's own survival
B) Benefits biological relatives who have similar genes
C) Builds groups solidarity and defense of the group against attack
D) Makes it more likely that one will be helped in return
Answer: B
Q2) In arguing that a particular behavior pattern in humans is coded in the genes and is therefore part of human nature, a person studying evolutionary psychology might use all of the following evidence except the fact that the behavior pattern
A) Appears in all human societies
B) Is displayed by chimpanzees
C) Appears to be adaptive within the environment of evolutionary adaptedness
D) Is stable in persons from childhood onward
Answer: D
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Chapter 3: Social Learning and Culture
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Q1) Societies that exhibit cultural modernity tend to
A) Be authoritarian
B) De-emphasize self-complexity
C) Emphasize self-progress and self improvement
D) View the self as remaining unchanged over time
Answer: C
Q2) All of the following are true of Mischel' s cognitive/social-learning/person variables except that they
A) Pertain to particular situations
B) Involve individual differences in processing information about the world
C) Refer to broad tendencies that are consistent over time
D) Refer to how a person consciously interprets events
Answer: C
Q3) Which of the following component processes in observational learning is involved in the encoding and remembering of a model's behavior?
A) Reproduction
B) Motivation
C) Retention
D) Attention
Answer: C
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Chapter 4: Personality Traits: Fundamental Concepts and Issues
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Q1) In the act-frequency approach to personality, traits are
A) Summary categories of behaviors
B) Internal dispositions
C) Causal factors in action
D) Situationally specific
Q2) In Gough's taxonomy of folk concepts and vectors on the CPI, which of the following life styles would be characterized as highly interpersonally oriented and highly norm-accepting?
A) Alphas
B) Betas
C) Gammas
D) Deltas
Q3) Mischel's critique of personality psychology was initially viewed as support for which of the following positions in the person-situation debate?
A) Trait
B) Situationist
C) Interactionist
D) Psychodynamic
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Chapter 5: Five Basic Traits in the Brain and in Behavior
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Q1) Empirical research suggests that openness to experience is positively associated with which of the following strategies for coping with stress?
A) Escapist fantasy
B) Positive thinking
C) Religious faith
D) Humor
Q2) Which of the following types of person is most likely to show high levels of arousal in response to increasing levels of stimulation?
A) Extraverts
B) Introverts
C) Ambiverts
D) Neurotics
Q3) Authoritarianism is not associated with
A) Low intelligence
B) Low socioeconomic status
C) Higher levels of criminal behavior
D) Rigidity in thinking
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Chapter 6: Continuity and Change in Traits: the Roles of Genes,
Environments, and Time
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Q1) The 5-HT transporter gene is responsible for
A) Producing molecules that removes serotonin from the synaptic cleft
B) Producing proteins that stimulate the production of serotonin
C) Turning on systems that increase nurturant behavior
D) Turning on systems that stimulate nerve transmission along serotonegenic lines
Q2) If the correlation coefficient of a given trait among MZ twins is +.50, and the correlation coefficient among DZ twins on the same trait is +.30, then the heritability quotient is approximately
A) 10%
B) 20%
C) 40%
D) 60%
Q3) In the AT&T longitudinal study of male managers followed from their 20s into their 40s, which of the following trends was discovered with respect to personality traits?
A) Decreases in ambition over time, and increases in autonomy
B) Decreases in autonomy over time, and increases in friendliness
C) Decreases in friendliness over time, and increases in detachment
D) Decreases in responsibility over time, and increases in rigidity
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Chapter 7: Motives and Goals: What Do We Want in Life
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Q1) The PSE scoring system for the achievement motive was originally derived
A) From a theoretical analysis of Murray's concept of the need for achievement
B) By administering the PSE to people who were extremely successful in life
C) From examining folktales that came from societies whose economies were strong
D) By comparing stories written under achievement arousal conditions to those written under neutral conditions
Q2) A person high in achievement motivation desires
A) To perform better
B) To become independent
C) To exert influence
D) All of the above
Q3) Which of the following statements best characterizes the Thematic Apperception Test TAT)?
A) The psychologist seeks to determine what the person sees in each picture cue
B) Picture cues are designed to elicit conflict and stress in the subject
C) The purpose of the picture cue is to elicit an imaginative story, whose content is analyzed
D) The purpose of the picture cue is to provide different characters with whom the subject can identify in telling a story
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Chapter 8: Self and Other: Social-Cognitive Aspects of Personality
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Q1) Which of the following measures is used to assess personal constructs?
A) The Personal Orientation Inventory
B) The Alienation Test
C) The Rep test
D) The MMPI
Q2) Field dependence is associated with all of the following except
A) Greater interpersonal sensitivity
B) Preference for solitary play in childhood
C) Tendency to rely on other people for guidance
D) Careers in humanitarian and social-welfare areas
Q3) Research suggests that having a grateful attitude about life tends to predict
A) Greater levels of prosocial behavior
B) Higher levels of guilt and shame
C) A stronger conscience
D) Higher expectations for reciprocity in interpersonal relationships
Q4) In the United States, involvement in a religious tradition is associated with
A) Higher levels of mental health
B) Lower levels of mental health
C) Higher levels of intelligence
D) Lower levels of prejudice against outgroups
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Chapter 9: Developmental Stages and Tasks
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Q1) What is "triple bookkeeping" in Erikson's theory?
A) Comprehending the person's life on the levels of body, ego, and society
B) Conceptualizing human conflict in terms of the forces of id, ego, and superego
C) Taking into consideration the person, environment, and their interaction in the prediction of behavior
D) Constructing a life story that embodies traits, motives, and values
Q2) Which of the following personality types among women is associated with the lowest levels of ego development?
A) Individuated
B) Conflicted
C) Traditional
D) Moratorium
Q3) Concerning Loevinger's stages of ego development, all of the following are true except
A) Higher stages are more differentiated and integrated
B) The ego is one's overall framework of meaning
C) With development, the person becomes more and more committed to society's goals
D) Loevinger proposes a developmental typology for adults
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Chapter 10: Life Scripts, Life Stories
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Q1) In Tomkins's script theory, a scene must contain
A) At least two characters
B) A script
C) At least one affect
D) A decision rule
Q2) All of the following are characteristic of a nuclear script except
A) Negative affect is greater than positive affect
B) Magnification occurs through analogs
C) An initial scene is likely to be clear and monistic
D) Affect socialization is intense and ambivalent
Q3) According to Tomkins's script theory, the person "magnifies" negative affect scenes by
A) Emphasizing similarities among scenes
B) Emphasizing differences among scenes
C) Combining them with positive scenes
D) Exaggerating their importance in his or her own development
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Chapter 11: Interpreting Peoples Stories: From Freud to Today
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Q1) When Hermans describes multiple voices and "I" positions in the dialogical self, he almost seems to be suggesting that people have multiple personalities. What do the students think? Do people feel that Hermans's conception makes sense in terms of their own inner lives?
Q2) All of the following are true of Jungian archetypes except that they
A) Are universal patterns or forms
B) Remain repressed because they are too threatening
C) Are linked to natural events and transitions in the human life cycle
D) Set instinctual limits on human behavior and experience
Q3) Adler's concept for the person's sense of kinship for all of humanity is called
A) Intimacy motivation
B) Communion
C) Eros
D) Social interest
Q4) Which of the following ideas best describes the "postmodern" attitude about self and identity?
A) The self is multiple and ambiguous
B) Achieving identity requires hard psychological work
C) Eternal truths exist within the person rather than in society
D) Selves are discovered rather than made
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Chapter 12: Writing Stories of Lives: Biography and the Life Course
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Q1) Before the twentieth century, biographies tended to be
A) Overly subjective
B) Overly critical of their subjects
C) Not especially psychological in perspective
D) Confined to studies of the rich and famous
Q2) The main purpose of medieval hagiographies was
A) Veneration of Christian saints
B) Exposure of sinful ways of men and women
C) Moral instruction for everyday life
D) Entertainment
Q3) In Frenkel's landmark study of the life histories of European men and women in the 1920s and 30s, the investigator focused on all of the following dimensions of human lives except
A) Significant external events such as wars)
B) Internal reactions to social changes
C) Specific accomplishments
D) Conflicts with parents
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