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Personality Psychology explores the scientific study of individual differences in characteristic patterns of thinking, feeling, and behaving. This course examines major theories and research findings related to personality development, assessment, and change, including trait, psychodynamic, humanistic, social-cognitive, and biological perspectives. Students will investigate how personality shapes behavior, influences relationships, and interacts with environmental and cultural factors. Through discussions, case examples, and practical activities, the course aims to deepen understanding of the complexities of personality and its role in everyday life.
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Personality Theory and Research 12th Edition by Daniel Cervone
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Chapter 1: Personality Theory: From Everyday Observations to Systematic Theories
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Q1) Personality includes both stable and fluid, unchanging and changing aspects.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
Q2) Parents influence their children's behavior by A) selectively rewarding behaviors.
B) serving as role models.
C) eliciting specific behaviors by presenting situations to them.
D) all of the above.
Answer: A
Q3) Genetic factors are more important than environment factors for most personality characteristics.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
Q4) The text definition of personality focuses on patterns of behavior.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
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Chapter 2: The Scientific Study of People
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Q1) Experimenter expectancy effects are illustrated by
A) the case of Clever Hans.
B) the case of Little Hans.
C) naturalistic observation.
D) correlational research.
Answer: A
Q2) Which of the following concepts suggests that the psychological experiment is a form of social interaction?
A) experimenter expectancy effects.
B) demand characteristics.
C) both (a) and (b).
D) neither (a) nor (b).
Answer: C
Q3) A(n) _____ detects variations in blood flow, whereas a(n) _____ records electrical activity of neurons.
A) fMRI; SCR
B) fMRI; EEG
C) EEG; SCR
D) EEG; fMRI
Answer: D
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Chapter 3: A Psychodynamic Theory: Freuds
Psychoanalytic Theory of Personality
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Q1) Marcia suggests that how identity formation is handled establishes a fixed pattern for life.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
Q2) John says that if he really puts his mind to it he could ace the course. This illustrates which mechanism of defense?
A) projection.
B) isolation.
C) undoing.
D) rationalization.
Answer: D
Q3) For Freud, the goal of all behavior is
A) survival.
B) consciousness.
C) pleasure.
D) all of the above.
Answer: C
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Chapter 4: Freuds Psychodynamic Theory: Applications,
Related Theoretical Conceptions, and Contemporary Research
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Q1) Discuss the strengths and limitations of psychoanalytic theory, both in terms of points emphasized in the text as well as your own point of view.
Q2) The central difference between traditional psychoanalysts and object relations theorists focuses on the importance of A) the ego.
B) the sexual instincts.
C) the superego.
D) the death instinct.
Q3) Analytic treatment encourages transference.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Projective methods often are seen as valuable in A) identifying single parts of the personality.
B) offering insight into the private world of meaning.
C) characterizing the conscious processes of the individual.
D) all of the above.
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Q5) The TAT was developed by Henry Murray and Christina Morgan.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 5: A Phenomenological Theory: Carl Rogers
Person-Centered Theory of Personality
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Q1) The person's perceptions of the world make up the A) construct system.
B) phenomenal field.
C) ego.
D) self.
Q2) According to Rogers, major parts of the self are unconscious.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Research suggests that variability in self in different situations is expressive of positive mental health.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Congruence involves bringing together
A) feelings and ideal self.
B) behavior and ideal self.
C) feelings and self concept.
D) none of the above.
Q5) Rogers attempted to integrate humanism and empiricism.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 6: A Phenomenological Theory - Applications and Evaluation of Rogers Theory
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Q1) Which of the following is not one of the personality characteristics emphasized by Maslow in describing self-actualizing individuals?
A) spontaneous and creative.
B) responsiveness to the demands of reality.
C) varied interpersonal relationships with many people.
D) resistance to conformity and assertiveness.
Q2) Rogers opened up the field of psychotherapy for systematic investigation.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Which of the following is not a major aspect of the existential view?
A) concern with death.
B) the individual as unique.
C) the individual as not having responsibility.
D) emphasis on personal meaning.
Q4) The Freudian and Rogerian views
A) both emphasize the development of symptoms.
B) both emphasize conflict, anxiety, and defense.
C) both emphasize the struggle with drives.
D) both emphasize structural conflicts.
Q5) Discuss Rogers' view of psychotherapy, comparing it with the Freudian view.
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Chapter 7: Trait Approaches to Personality - Allport,
Eyesneck and Cattell
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Q1) In one way or another, Eysenck's views conflict with those of A) Freud.
B) Allport.
C) Cattell.
D) all of the above.
Q2) A major contribution by Cattell has been in the area of psychotherapy.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Factor analysis assumes that behaviors that function or vary with one another are related.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Which of the following statements is true?
A) Extraverts are less suggestible than introverts.
B) Introverts are less sensitive to pain than extraverts.
C) Criminals are high on extraversion but low on neuroticism and psychotocism.
D) Introverts are more influenced by punishments, extraverts by rewards.
Q5) Surface traits represent the building blocks of personality.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 8: Trait Theory: the Five-Factor Model: Applications and Evaluation of the Trait Approach
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Q1) The existence of universal terms for describing individual differences would be __________ an evolutionary perspective.
A) consistent with B) inconsistent with C) simultaneously consistent AND inconsistent with D) irrelevant to
Q2) McCrae and Costa's view of the Big Five is that they are similar to A) motives.
B) cognitions.
C) temperament.
D) the self.
Q3) Cross-cultural research on age trends suggests A) the same pattern of personality trait change.
B) varying patterns of personality trait change.
C) western vs. nonwestern differences in personality trait change.
D) developing countries vs. developed countries differences in personality trait change.
Q4) McCrae and Costa suggest there is an intrinsic maturation to personality.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 9: Biological Foundations of Personality
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Q1) Research in evolutionary psychology by Cosmides on the question of cheating detection is concerned with the evolutionarily significant problem of A) dating.
B) parenting.
C) social exchange.
D) playing games.
Q2) Outline Kagan's conception of inhibited and uninhibited temperament and the research findings documenting the stability of these temperament styles.
Q3) The part of the brain implicated in emotion and motivation is the A) amygdala.
B) hippocampus.
C) prefrontal cortex.
D) Broca's area.
Q4) The text suggests that
A) evidence of inheritance does not mean environment is unimportant.
B) evidence of inheritance does not mean temperament is fixed.
C) evidence of inheritance does not mean early experience is unimportant.
D) all of the above.
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Chapter 10: Behaviorism and the Learning Approaches to Personality
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Q1) Stability to behavior over many situations might be due to A) extinction.
B) generalization.
C) discrimination.
D) intermittent reinforcement.
Q2) According to Skinner, complex behaviors are built up through A) observational learning.
B) successive approximations.
C) classical conditioning.
D) intermittent reinforcement.
Q3) For Skinner, money is
A) a motivation of behavior.
B) a generalized reinforcer.
C) a conditional stimulus.
D) the root of all evil.
Q4) Which of the following is not a strong criticism of Skinner's theory?
A) there is evidence of learning in the absence of reinforcement.
B) It neglects to provide for measures of important concepts.
C) Human capacity for language and thought is underemphasized.
D) Important species and constitutional differences are underemphasized.
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Chapter 11: A Cognitive Theory of Personality: George a Kellys
Personal Construct Theory of Personality
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Q1) According to Kelly, scientific theories should be designed to be modified and eventually abandoned.
A)True
B)False
Q2) according to Kelly, a construct is a
A) prediction about the future.
B) way of interpreting events.
C) stable trait.
D) hierarchy of drives.
Q3) According to Kelly, individuals seek
A) consistency.
B) certainty.
C) both (a) and (b).
D) neither (a) nor (b).
Q4) According to Kelly, two elements are necessary to form a construct.
A)True
B)False
Q5) Fixed-role therapy gets its power from the client "playing for keeps."
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 12: Social Cognitive Theory: Bandura and Mischel
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Q1) Social-cognitive theorists are critical of behaviorism because behaviorists A) based their theory on experimental rather than correlational research.
B) underestimated people's capacity for personal agency.
C) underestimated people's capacity to adapt their behavior to situations.
D) were too interests in individual differences.
Q2) Social cognitive personality theorists are critical of approaches that emphasize A) unconscious forces.
B) traits.
C) drives.
D) all of the above.
Q3) Bandura's view of motivation involves A) goals.
B) performance feedback.
C) both (a) and (b).
D) neither (a) nor (b).
Q4) Social cognitive theory emphasizes stages of cognitive development. A)True
B)False
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Chapter 13: Social-Cognitive Theory: Extensions,
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Q1) Various attributions may have different motivational consequences. Attributing course performance to fixed intelligence would lead one to
A) feel less motivated after poor performance.
B) feel more motivated after poor performance.
C) be in conflict about future performance expectations.
D) Such an attribution would not affect subsequent motivation.
Q2) Lazarus' concept of secondary appraisal is similar to A) Freud's superego.
B) Bandura's self-efficacy concept.
C) Rogers' self-actualization motive.
D) Beck's cognitive triad.
Q3) In Stress Innoculation Training, relapse is prevented by A) follow-up, booster sessions.
B) difficulties being interpreted as errors rather than failures.
C) imagery rehearsal and behavioral rehearsal.
D) all of the above.
Q4) Bandura finds that the most effective treatment for phobias is systematic desensitization.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 14: Personality in Context: Interpersonal Relations,
Culture, and Development Across the Course of Life
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Q1) Rejection-sensitive persons are just neurotic.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Socioemotional selectivity theory suggest that awareness of ______ is important to development.
A) one's life span
B) one's social group
C) one's nation of origin
D) one's parental influences
Q3) Asian students who moved to North America were found to gradually display higher scores in
A) neuroticism.
B) depression.
C) extraversion.
D) intelligence.
Q4) The self concept is the same in all parts of the world.
A)True
B)False
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Q5) Are all personality variables global, or context-free? What are some examples of contextualized personality variables?
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Chapter 15: An Overview of Personality Theory, Assessment, and Research
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Q1) Jim was most impressed with the data from the A) projectives.
B) questionnaires.
C) interview.
D) none of the above.
Q2) The text warns against the danger of reductionism.
A)True
B)False
Q3) A useful principle for bringing about social change is
A) administering the NEO-PI-R.
B) the free association method.
C) media modeling.
D) conducting twin studies.
Q4) Media modeling has been used successfully to promote literacy.
A)True
B)False
Q5) Compare the strengths and limitations of three theoretical approaches covered in the text.
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Q6) Discuss the relationships among theory, approach to research, and approach to assessment in the light of the theories covered in the text.
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