Introduction to Personality Psychology Test Preparation
Course Introduction
Introduction to Personality Psychology explores the scientific study of personality, examining the unique patterns of thoughts, feelings, and behaviors that characterize individuals. The course covers key theories and perspectives including trait, biological, psychoanalytic, humanistic, and social-cognitive approaches while integrating contemporary research methods and findings. Students will investigate how personality develops and changes across the lifespan, the influence of genetics and environment, the assessment and measurement of personality, and the implications of personality in real-world contexts such as mental health, work, and relationships. By the end of the course, students will have a foundational understanding of how psychologists conceptualize, study, and apply the principles of personality.
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The Personality Puzzle 6th Edition by David C. Funder
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Chapter 1: The Study of the Person
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Q1) Which of the following is NOT one of the basic approaches to personality?
A) psychoanalytic
B) learning
C) assessment
D) phenomenological
Answer: C
Q2) The personality paradigm that focuses on rewards and punishments is known as the ________ paradigm.
A) trait
B) behaviorist
C) phenomenological
D) psychoanalytic
Answer: B
Q3) In observing human behavior, it is impossible to ________.
A) understand everything about a person all at once
B) choose to limit what you look at in a person
C) find patterns across different kinds of observation
D) make any real progress toward solving the personality puzzle
Answer: A
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Chapter 2: Clues to Personality: the Basic Sources of Data
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Q1) Which kind of data would be the easiest way to obtain information about the content of dreams?
A) S
B) B
C) L
D) I
Answer: A
Q2) Which type of data is likely to be the most subjective and judgmental?
A) I
B) B
C) L
D) S
Answer: A
Q3) What is the best way for a researcher to judge the face validity of items on a measure?
A) Conduct an exploratory factor analysis on the items.
B) Conduct a confirmatory factor analysis on the items.
C) Conduct an internal consistency analysis on the items.
D) Read and consider the content of the items.
Answer: D
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Chapter 3: Personality Psychology As Science: Research
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Q1) Psychologists have several concerns with the concept of statistical significance.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
Q2) Dr. Low is interested in studying the relation between mood and willingness to help a stranger. She randomly assigns half of her participants to the pleasant mood condition and shows them funny film clips. The other half of her participants are assigned to the unpleasant mood condition and are forced to watch boring film clips. She then gives every participant an opportunity to donate money to a homeless stranger. Dr. Low is using a(n) ________ design.
A) experimental
B) correlational
C) case study
D) repeated measures
Answer: A
Q3) Researchers usually agree about the interpretation of a result.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
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Chapter 4: Personality Traits, Situations, and Behavior
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Q1) People low in agreeableness tend to have greater risks to their cardiac health.
A)True
B)False
Q2) The consistency of individual differences typically increases with age.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Which of the following is NOT one of the responses to the situationist argument?
A) Personality researchers argued that Mischel's literature review was selective.
B) Personality researchers searched for certain kinds of people who were more consistent than others.
C) Personality researchers started to think more carefully about the importance of a correlation of .40.
D) Personality researchers worked harder to find single traits that could strongly predict single responses at a particular point in time.
Q4) It is possible to directly calculate effect sizes from experimental social psychology using correlational metrics.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 5: Personality Assessment I: Personality Testing
and Its Consequences
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Q1) Personality assessment would be relevant to which of the following constructs?
A) attitudes toward political leaders
B) extraversion
C) aggression
D) all of the above
Q2) As described in the text, according to some motivation researchers, the Thematic Apperception Test (TAT) measures ________, whereas questionnaire-based measures predict ________.
A) what people want; actual performance
B) what people need; what people want
C) what people want; how motives are expressed
D) how motives are expressed; actual performance
Q3) Empirically developed tests have created some serious legal problems for companies that administer such tests to employees or potential hires.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Describe the purpose of factor analysis. How is this technique used in personality psychology and what are its limitations?
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Chapter 6: Personality Assessment Ii: Personality Judgment in
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Q1) Drawing on research described in the text, what would be a reasonable prediction about a group of introverts who are instructed to act extraverted for a week?
A) They will report increased happiness at the end of the week.
B) They will report being tired and depleted from the effort.
C) They will report increased feelings of closeness with others.
D) They will not be noticeably different after the study.
Q2) What is the acquaintanceship effect, and what boundary condition did Colvin and Funder (1991) discover? Provide a clear example to illustrate this boundary condition.
Q3) Which of the following is an aspect of the "good" trait?
A) moderation
B) unpredictability
C) visibility
D) acquaintanceship
Q4) What is a moderator variable? Identify the four moderators of accuracy detailed in the text, and provide clear examples for each moderator.
Q5) A strong handshake is a reliable indicator of honesty.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 7: Using Personality Traits to Understand Behavior
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Q1) When compared to high self-monitors, people who score low in self-monitoring tend to ________.
A) perform better in job interviews
B) use strategies to influence coworkers
C) be willing to lie to get a date
D) masturbate less often
Q2) Personality traits are generally consistent across the life span, but this consistency increases with age. This statement best reflects which principle of personality development?
A) cumulative
B) maturity
C) corresponsive
D) lexical
Q3) How were the Big Five discovered? Define and describe each of the Big Five trait domains. What essential questions about strangers do these dimensions address?
Q4) Integrity tests are often used by employers in personnel selection.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 8: The Anatomy and Physiology of Personality
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Q1) The projections from nerves that receive stimulation are called ________.
A) axons
B) dendrites
C) afferents
D) efferents
Q2) According to Damasio's somatic marker hypothesis, damage to the right frontal lobes impairs a person's ________, which then impairs his or her ________.
A) emotional reactions to events and thoughts; ability to make decisions about what is and is not important
B) primary visual and auditory cortexes; ability to distinguish real sensory stimulation from hallucinations
C) reptilian brain; ability to perform creative activities as opposed to simple responses and fixed patterns of behavior
D) ability to experience pain; fear of consequences
Q3) The ancient Romans believed that someone with an excess of blood tended to be cheerful, ruddy, and robust.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 9: The Inheritance of Personality: Behavioral
Genetics and Evolutionary Theory
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Q1) According to an evolutionary analysis of reactions to depression, crying is a wasteful use of energy and resources.
A)True
B)False
Q2) What is the precise meaning of a heritability coefficient?
A) the proportion of total variance in a trait that is due to genetic influences
B) the proportion of genetic influences in a trait that is due to inheritance
C) the chance that reliable genetic effects are statistically significant
D) the chance that genetic effects will replicate in an additional sample
Q3) The ________ refers to the underlying genetic structure that leads to the observable ________.
A) phenotype; genogram
B) genotype; phenotype
C) phenotype; genotype
D) genetic map; genetic architecture
Q4) Humans share about 98 percent of their genetic material with chimpanzees.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 10: Basics of Psychoanalysis
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Q1) Tracy has an important test tomorrow. She knows she should study for the test but she really wants to go to Greg's party. However, when she considers not studying and going to the party she feels guilty. Tracy therefore decides to stay home and study for the test. According to psychoanalytic theory, Tracy's ________.
A) ego won out over her superego
B) superego won out over her id
C) id won out over her superego
D) ego won out over her id
Q2) Which statement best summarizes psychoanalytic thinking about mental energy?
A) Freud believed that mental energy was limited, whereas modern psychologists believe that the mind's processing ability is limited.
B) Freud believed that the mind's processing ability was limited, whereas modern psychoanalysts believe that mental energy is limited.
C) Freud, like modern psychoanalysts, believed that mental energy is limited.
D) Freud and his followers believed that mental energy could be precisely quantified through the process of psychoanalysis.
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Chapter 11: The Workings of the Unconscious Mind:
Defenses and Slips
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Q1) Ego psychologists believe that the most important function of the ego is compromise formation.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Use psychoanalytic theory to explain sexist and/or racist humor. Make sure to explain why these jokes seem to work for some people but not for others.
Q3) The primary result of psychic conflict is ________.
A) depression
B) aggression
C) anxiety
D) immorality
Q4) A military general who only speaks of strategy and refrains from using terms such as killing and casualties to describe war is demonstrating the defense mechanism called ________.
A) denial
B) intellectualization
C) reaction formation
D) repression
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Chapter 12: Psychoanalysis After Freud: Neo-Freudians,
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Q1) One difference between the neo-Freudians and Freud is that nearly all neo-Freudians ________.
A) place more emphasis on early childhood development
B) put more emphasis on interpersonal relationships
C) adhere to evolutionary theory and emphasize the importance of sex as a motivator
D) emphasize the importance of unconscious processes in the determination of behavior
Q2) In psychoanalytic terms, objects are ________.
A) pieces of unconscious material against which the ego defends itself
B) patients undergoing psychoanalytic therapy
C) created by emotionally important people in one's life
D) created by emotionally unimportant people in one's life
Q3) According to the object relations theorist D. W. Winnicott, the purpose of a False self is to ________.
A) compensate for an inferiority complex
B) defend the superego from unconscious urges
C) protect the true self by keeping it invisible
D) motivate us to perform moral behavior
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Chapter 13: Experience, Existence, and the Meaning of Life:
Humanistic and Positive Psychology
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Q1) According to existentialists, authentic existence will not relieve you of loneliness and unhappiness.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Which of the following is NOT a concern with the typical strategy used to evaluate the effects of Rogerian psychotherapy?
A) It is not clear that the match between perceived self and ideal self is an adequate criterion for psychological adjustment.
B) No measurable variables have been used to evaluate Rogerian therapy.
C) The results may be due to clients' changing their ideal views.
D) The criterion used for determining adjustment could lead us to consider people with obvious disorders as being well-adjusted.
Q3) George Kelly believed that personal constructs are bipolar. A)True B)False
Q4) Humanistic psychologists believe that people are basically good. A)True B)False
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Chapter 14: Cultural Variation in Experience, Behavior, and Personality
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Q1) Buddhist countries might be higher in self-compassion than Confucianist countries.
A)True
B)False
Q2) A child learns about his or her native culture through the process of acculturation.
A)True
B)False
Q3) John argues that a particular culture's distinctive view of reality simply exists and believes that there is no way to meaningfully address the origin of cultural differences. John seems to subscribe to which philosophical tradition?
A) empiricism
B) existentialism
C) deconstructionism
D) naturalism
Q4) Women in the United States are not more collectivist than men.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 15: Learning to Be a Person: Behaviorism and Social Learning Theories
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Q1) Freedom to select situations is an important corollary of behaviorist principles.
A)True
B)False
Q2) One advantage of behaviorism is that it is supported by objective data.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Bandura's ________ has proven to be the most influential of his ideas.
A) specific approach to therapy
B) emphasis on observational learning
C) concept of expectancies
D) discovery of if . . . then contingencies
Q4) Skinner was among the first to insist that classical conditioning and operant conditioning ________.
A) do not apply to all people
B) can be acquired by observing others
C) are different types of learning
D) are not found in nonhuman animals
Q5) Identify and describe the three philosophical ideas that are fundamental to behaviorism.
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Chapter 16: Personality Processes: Perception, Thought,
Motivation, and Emotion
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Q1) Priming "Mommy and I are one" to individuals who have unpleasant relationships with their mothers seems to promote temporary well-being.
A)True
B)False
Q2) People often report two or more personal strivings that are inconsistent with each other.
A)True
B)False
Q3) It is probably easier to tutor someone with a judgment goal than it is to tutor someone with a development goal.
A)True
B)False
Q4) What term describes someone who is low in emotional intelligence?
A) anhedonic
B) eudonic
C) dysthymic
D) alexithymic
Q5) What is rejection sensitivity? How might rejection sensitivity become a self-fulfilling prophecy?
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Chapter 17: What You Know About You: the Self
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Q1) Which of the following is NOT associated with low self-esteem?
A) depression
B) suicide
C) loneliness
D) fearlessness about death
Q2) According to William James, the ________ does the thinking and sensing, whereas the ________ is the object of thoughts about the self.
A) I; me
B) me; I
C) independent self; interdependent self
D) interdependent self; independent self
Q3) Individuals with amnesia are ________, which suggests that accurate self-knowledge ________ memories of specific life events.
A) unable to provide accurate self-reports of personality; depends on B) able to provide accurate self-reports of personality; exists separately from C) unable to provide accurate self-reports of personality; exists separately from D) able to provide accurate self-reports of personality; depends on
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Chapter 18: Disorders of Personality
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Q1) What term describes the urge to seek erotic stimulation by rubbing up against others in crowded buses?
A) frotteurism
B) pica
C) fugue state
D) enuresis
Q2) Individuals who suffer from avoidant personality disorder actually have deep cravings for social contact and acceptance.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Dependent personality disorder is more common in men than in women.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Describe the five maladaptive personality traits recently proposed for DSM-V. How do these traits relate to the Big Five traits and other personality trait constructs described in the textbook?
Q5) Depression and anxiety are ego-syntonic disorders. A)True
B)False
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Chapter 19: Conclusion: Looking Back and Looking Ahead
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Q1) Personality traits are good predictors of single behaviors in particular situations.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Funder believes that the lack of a single unified approach to thoughts, feelings, and behaviors might ultimately prove to be the greatest weakness of psychology.
A)True
B)False
Q3) The ________ approach focuses on moment-to-moment conscious experience, free will, and the ability to choose important aspects of one's reality.
A) trait
B) cognitive
C) humanistic
D) learning
Q4) It would be extremely difficult to integrate trait and cognitive approaches to personality.
A)True
B)False
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