Developmental Psychology Exam Questions
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Developmental Psychology is the scientific study of how individuals grow, change, and adapt across the lifespan, from infancy through old age. This course examines the patterns and processes of physical, cognitive, social, and emotional development, incorporating major theories and research findings. Students will explore key topics such as attachment, language acquisition, identity formation, and the impact of culture and environment on development. By understanding developmental milestones and the factors that influence them, students gain insights into both typical and atypical development, preparing them for advanced study or practical application in fields such as education, healthcare, and counseling.
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Personality Psychology Domains of Knowledge About Human Nature 4th Edition by Randy J. Larsen
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Chapter 1: Introduction to Personality Psychology
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Q1) The fact that there are many differing views on personality suggests that
A)researchers study different domains of knowledge.
B)most views about personality psychology are incorrect.
C)one of the views is probably more accurate than others.
D)personality psychologists ignore one another's theories.
Answer: A
Q2) The individual uniqueness level of personality analysis addresses how every human is
A)like all others.
B)like some others.
C)like no others.
D)somewhat like other mammals
Answer: C
Q3) Which domain is most concerned with identifying the number of fundamental individual differences?
A)Biological
B)Dispositional
C)Intrapsychic
D)Social and cultural
Answer: B
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Chapter 2: Personality Assessment, Measurement, and Research Design
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Q1) Projective techniques are examples of A)S-data.
B)O-data.
C)T-data.
D)L-data.
Answer: C
Q2) Which type of data is most commonly used to measure personality?
A)S-data
B)O-data
C)T-data
D)L-data
Answer: A
Q3) S-data will agree more with O-data when A)T-data is not available.
B)the trait being assessed is unconscious.
C)the trait being assessed requires few inferences.
D)the trait being assessed is not easily observable.
Answer: C
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Chapter 3: Traits and Trait Taxonomies
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Q1) Which taxonomy was developed by identifying traits that were thought to be heritable and thought to have biological substrates?
A)PEN model
B)Cattell's taxonomy of 16 traits
C)The Leary circumplex
D)The five factor model
Answer: A
Q2) More research in the last 20 years has focused on this taxonomy than other taxonomies.
A)PEN model
B)Cattell's taxonomy of 16 traits
C)The Leary circumplex
D)The five factor model
Answer: D
Q3) Who of the following was the first to propose a circumplex model of personality?
A)Cattell
B)Wiggins
C)Eysenck
D)Leary
Answer: D
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Chapter 4: Theoretical and Measurement Issues in Trait Psychology
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Q1) The equation B = f(P x S)
A)shows that the appearance of a trait is related to an interaction between the phenotype and stereotype.
B)is a way to determine heritability estimates for behavior of personalities in situations.
C)specifies that behavior is the result of an interaction between the person and the situation.
D)indicates that behavior is primarily the result of personality and secondarily the situation.
Q2) The history of integrity testing has included all of the following EXCEPT A)questionnaires.
B)interrogation.
C)polygraphs.
D)rice powder.
Q3) If a trait changes over time, test-retest correlations
A)will always be low.
B)will always be high.
C)are high if rank order remains the same.
D)are low if rank order remains the same.
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Chapter 5: Personality Dispositions Over Time: Stability,
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Q1) Women who score high on the femininity scale of the California Psychological Inventory (compared to low scorers) are more likely to
A)remember an acquaintance's birthday.
B)take charge of a committee meeting.
C)take the initiative in sexual encounters.
D)demand equal social and political rights
Q2) Which of the following aspects of temperament is probably most stable?
A)Activity level
B)Fear
C)Duration of orienting
D)Soothability
Q3) A longitudinal study of architects that spanned 25 years found that
A)successful architects scored high on independence and spontaneity scales.
B)successful architects scored high on conventionality and conservatism scales.
C)impulsivity and flexibility scale scores increased with age for successful architects.
D)successful architects had fewer health problems then less creative architects.
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Chapter 6: Genetics and Personality
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Q1) Which of the following is probably most heritable?
A)Drinking behavior in men.
B)Drinking behavior in women.
C)Alcoholism in men and women.
D)Alcoholism is not heritable.
Q2) Which of the following estimates heritability most accurately?
A)The difference between the correlations of MZ twins and DZ twins.
B)Twice the difference between the correlations of MZ twins and DZ twins.
C)One-half the difference between the correlations of MZ twins and DZ twins.
D)Multiplying the correlations between MZ twins and DZ twins.
Q3) Individuals with so-called "long repeat" versions of the D4DR gene tend to be relatively unresponsive to the effects of _____.
A)dopamine
B)epinephrine
C)serotonin
D)acetylcholine
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Chapter 7: Physiological Approaches to Personality
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Q1) Which of the following is NOT part of Hebb's theory about "optimal levels of arousal"?
A)A person can be too aroused to perform well.
B)A person has the same optimal level of arousal for all stimuli.
C)A person can perform poorly because they are not sufficiently aroused.
D)Different activities have different optimal levels of arousal.
Q2) There is a _____ correlation between scores for Zuckerman's sensation seeking scale and Eysenck's trait of extraversion.
A)very low positive
B)marginally negative
C)moderately strong positive
D)very strong negative
Q3) Test-retest correlations of frontal asymmetry have been shown to be
A)weak and positive.
B)strong and positive.
C)weak and negative.
D)strong and negative.
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Chapter 8: Evolutionary Perspectives on Personality
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Q1) The incidental effects produced by adaptations are called
A)evolutionary byproducts.
B)random variations.
C)domain specific adaptations.
D)functional adaptations.
Q2) _____ occur(s) when members of one sex choose mates based on their preferences for particular characteristics in the opposite sex.
A)Intersexual selection
B)Intrasexual selection
C)Reactive heritabilities
D)Adaptive byproducts
Q3) Cross-cultural studies of jealousy have found
A)jealousy is more pronounced in Western cultures than in Asian cultures.
B)the double-shot hypothesis shows cross cultural consistency.
C)women in Asian cultures are more upset by sexual infidelity than men.
D)there is strong evidence for universal sex differences in jealousy across cultures.
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Chapter 9: Psychoanalytic Approaches to Personality
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Q1) According to Freud, anxiety is typically the result of the control of the _____ being threatened.
A)id
B)ego
C)superego
D)archetype
Q2) If a woman consciously redirected anger she felt toward her boss to the family dog, it would be an example of A)projection.
B)displacement.
C)reaction formation.
D)sublimation.
Q3) Which of the following parts of the mind is bound by reality?
A)Id
B)Ego
C)Superego
D)Conscious
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Chapter 10: Psychoanalytic Approaches: Contemporary Issues
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Q1) Adults with a(n) _____ relationship style shun romance, and believe that love never lasts.
A)secure
B)avoidant
C)ambivalent
D)independent
Q2) In the strange situation procedure, when do ambivalently attached infants act ambivalently?
A)When the mother returns.
B)When the mother cuddles the infant.
C)When the stranger enters.
D)When a stranger cuddles the infant.
Q3) According to Horney, most differences between boys and girls can be attributed to A)genes.
B)hormones.
C)differences in resolving the phallic stage.
D)cultural influences.
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Chapter 11: Motives and Personality
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Q1) The Thematic Apperception Test was developed by
A)Freud.
B)Rorchach.
C)Maslow.
D)Murray.
Q2) People who accept their weaknesses and shortcomings probably experience
A)conditions of worth.
B)unconditional positive self-regard.
C)positive regard.
D)conditional positive regard.
Q3) Which term below best describes a state of tension within a person usually caused by a lack of something?
A)Alpha press
B)Motive
C)Beta press
D)Need
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Chapter 12: Cognitive Topics in Personality
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Q1) The person most associated with research on reducing/augmenting is A)Goleman.
B)Petrie.
C)Seligman.
D)Witkin.
Q2) A person who believes that luck plays an important part in her or his life has a(n)
A)internal locus of control.
B)external locus of control.
C)supernatural explanatory style.
D)naturalistic explanatory style.
Q3) Students who are _____ are especially good at seeing connections between different categories.
A)field-dependent
B)field-independent
C)both field dependent and field independent
D)intelligent
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Chapter 13: Emotion and Personality
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Q1) The patterns of emotional reactions that a person consistently experiences over time are called
A)emotions states.
B)emotion traits.
C)explanatory style.
D)the cognitive triad.
Q2) Emotional content and emotional style
A)correlate at high levels.
B)correlate at moderate levels.
C)correlate at low levels.
D)do not correlate at all.
Q3) Questionnaire measures of happiness
A)correlate with measures of social desirability.
B)appear to be valid.
C)are invalid due to response bias.
D)correlate with measures of social desirability and appear to be valid.
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Chapter 14: Approaches to the Self
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Q1) Compared to people with high self-esteem, people with low self-esteem are more A)prevention focused.
B)promotion focused.
C)concerned with not failing than with succeeding.
D)prevention focused and more concerned with not failing than with succeeding.
Q2) Seeing oneself as the object of others' attention is known as
A)social comparison.
B)perspective taking.
C)objective self-awareness.
D)a private self-concept.
Q3) The aspects of your self that you present to others is known as your A)self-esteem.
B)self-concept.
C)social identity.
D)possible selves.
Q4) A person with many distinct aspects of self is best described as having A)high self-esteem variability.
B)high global self esteem.
C)high self-complexity.
D)self guides.
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Chapter 15: Personality and Social Interaction
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Q1) Evocation is NOT demonstrated in which of the following situations?
A)When a person acts in a way that causes an emotional response in another person.
B)When a husband's actions cause a wife to behave in ways that anger her husband.
C)When a wife nags her husband to get something accomplished.
D)When a charismatic person walks into a room and a dull party becomes enjoyable.
Q2) According to the assortative mating hypothesis, individuals who score high on extraversion scales will prefer potential mates who score high on A)neuroticism.
B)agreeableness.
C)extraversion
D)extraversion.
Q3) Individuals scoring high on sensation-seeking scales prefer NOT to select situations that
A)are characterized by higher risk sexual behavior.
B)involve unusual psychological experiments on topics such as drugs or sex.
C)consists of a series of highly repetitive tasks.
D)frequently involve attending parties were alcohol or drugs are available.
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Chapter 16: Sex, Gender, and Personality
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Q1) The cognitive orientations that lead people to process information on the basis of sex-linked associations are known as
A)gender stereotypes.
B)gender schemata.
C)sex differences.
D)masculinity-femininity.
Q2) The idea that boys learn masculine behaviors by observing men is most indicative of the _____ theory.
A)socialization
B)evolutionary
C)hormonal
D)social learning
Q3) The _____ dimension contains items related to assertiveness, dominance, and instrumentality.
A)people-things
B)sociosexuality
C)masculinity
D)femininity
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Chapter 17: Culture and Personality
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Q1) Men from higher social classes in _____ cultures tended to be have low levels of conformity, more self-direction, and have greater intellectual flexibility than did men from lower social classes.
A)collectivist
B)individualist
C)interdependent
D)all
Q2) Studies that have translated English questionnaires into different languages
A)have been successful in replicating the five-factor model of personality.
B)have only replicated four factors in the five-factor model of personality.
C)have not been conducted yet.
D)indicate that personality structure is not universal.
Q3) The idea that it is wrong to eat beef is an example of
A)evoked culture.
B)transmitted culture.
C)Balkanization.
D)reactive culture.
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Chapter 18: Stress, Coping, Adjustment, and Health
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Q1) Psychologists recognize _____ varieties of stress: _____.
A)three; episodic acute, traumatic, and chronic stress
B)three; benign, traumatic, and chronic stress
C)four; acute, episodic acute, traumatic, and chronic stress
D)four; acute, benign, traumatic, and chronic stress
Q2) Positive emotions are thought to help with stress by A)broadening attention.
B)helping people build stores of energy.
C)helping people build social networks.
D)All the these.
Q3) Research suggests that emotional expressiveness is associated with A)better health.
B)better relationships.
C)more physiological reactivity.
D)better health and better relationships.
Q4) Concerns about weight, crime, and taxes are examples of A)daily hassles.
B)major life events.
C)attributional style.
D)emotional inhibition.
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Chapter 19: Disorders of Personality
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Q1) A psychologist should be especially hesitant before diagnosing a personality disorder in all of these groups EXCEPT
A)adolescent populations.
B)criminal populations.
C)adults undergoing a severe loss.
D)immigrant populations.
Q2) Comorbidity is the notion that
A)individuals may have symptoms that meet the criteria for more then one personality disorder.
B)two or more individuals in a relationship may share the traits for the same personality disorder.
C)personality disorders are heritable between parents and their children.
D)one individual may morbidly transmit their personality disorder to another person.
Q3) The most prevalent personality disorder discussed in your text is
A)histrionic.
B)dependant.
C)avoidant.
D)obsessive compulsive.
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Chapter 20: Summary and Future Directions
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Q1) All of the following are questions personality psychologists that study the dispositional domain will continue to ask in the future EXCEPT
A)How many new personality traits exist?
B)How will future advancements in measurement theory affect the study of personality dispositions?
C)How do personality traits interact with situations to produce behaviors?
D)Are the major personality traits of human personality moderately heritable?
Q2) Research in modern personality psychology from the perspective of the intrapsychic domain
A)does not believe there is such a thing as an unconscious.
B)does not study the unconscious.
C)uses many innovative methods to study the unconscious, such as priming and subliminal exposure.
D)believes the unconscious is a cognitive byproduct.
Q3) Much current research in the intrapsychic domain addresses
A)the oedipal complex.
B)libido.
C)thanatos.
D)repression.
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