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Personality Psychology explores the enduring patterns of thoughts, feelings, and behaviors that define individuals and differentiate them from one another. This course examines major theoretical approaches to personality, including psychoanalytic, humanistic, trait, behavioral, and social-cognitive perspectives. Students will learn how personality develops over time, the biological and environmental influences on personality, and methods for assessing personality traits. Through the study of empirical research and applied case studies, students will gain insight into how personality affects relationships, mental health, and adjustment across the lifespan.
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Personality Psychology Domains of Knowledge About Human Nature 5th Edition by Randy
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Chapter 1: Introduction to Personality Psychology
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Q1) Which of the following questions does research on personality traits NOT emphasize?
A)How many fundamental traits are there?
B)How are traits organized within individuals?
C)What are the origins of traits?
D)How are all persons similar?
Answer: D
Q2) Which of the following is NOT an example of a theory that provides a guide for researchers?
A)A Freudian psychoanalyst predicting stinginess from the ideas about development through a particular stage of psychological development.
B)A biological psychologist predicting a decrease in social behavior when the frontal lobe of the brain is damaged.
C)A personality psychologist analyzing a large pool of responses to questionnaire items to find the underlying structure of the data.
D)A cognitive psychologist predicting that how an individual's self evaluation will determine his or her reaction to a specific stimuli.
Answer: C
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Chapter 2: Personality Assessment, Measurement, and Research Design
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Q1) If a measure is equally valid in persons of different ages, genders and cultures, it can be described as having high
A)face validity.
B)construct validity.
C)statistical significance.
D)generalizability.
Answer: D
Q2) Howard wants to study the relationship between income and dominance.Which personality research method would he be most likely to use?
A)Case study
B)Correlational design
C)Experimental design
D)Naturalistic observation
Answer: B
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Chapter 3: Traits and Trait Taxonomies
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Q1) Juanita is observed as being somewhat aloof and distant.She tends to lead a predictable and well-organized life.Juanita is demonstrating behaviors related to Eysenck's dimension of A)introversion.
B)conscientiousness.
C)agency.
D)psychoticism.
Answer: A
Q2) If a trait-descriptive word is found in only one or two languages the word
A)will probably be imported by other languages.
B)will probably be important to a universal personality taxonomy.
C)will probably not be included in a universal personality taxonomy.
D)is probably known only to personality psychologists.
Answer: C
Q3) Eysenck put the most important traits at A)the top of his hierarchy.
B)the bottom of his hierarchy.
C)an intermediate level in his hierarchy.
D)the third level of his hierarchy.
Answer: A
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Chapter 4: Theoretical and Measurement Issues in Trait Psychology
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Q1) Vicki has been your friend for several years.Generally she is a very friendly, outgoing, and sociable person.Based on what you know about Vicki's personality you predict that she
A)will have greater amounts of these traits in the future.
B)was probably a unfriendly, nonsocial, and withdrawn child.
C)will be as friendly, outgoing, and sociable as she is now in the future.
D)will have far lower amounts of these traits in the future.
Q2) The history of integrity testing has included all of the following EXCEPT A)questionnaires.
B)interrogation.
C)polygraphs.
D)rice powder.
Q3) Some individuals have raised concerns about the use of personality tests in hiring decisions.All of these are legitimate concerns EXCEPT that they feel the A)tests' questions are unrelated to job requirements.
B)tests are evaluated poorly.
C)tests do not accurately predict job performance.
D)tests lack statistical reliability.
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Chapter 5: Personality Dispositions Over Time: Stability,
Coherence, and Change
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Q1) Which of the following has been suggested as the key factor with the later development of alcoholism in men?
A)High levels of neuroticism
B)Low levels of neuroticism
C)Low levels of impulse control
D)High levels of impulse control
Q2) If we measured height from the age of 12 to 18, we would likely see high degrees of
A)mean level stability.
B)rank order stability.
C)rank order instability.
D)both A and B.
Q3) A longitudinal study conducted of women who attended Mills College suggests that femininity (defined as being dependent, emotional, gentle, high-strung, etc.) decreases to become more masculine (defined as being assertive, confident, determined, independent, etc.) from ages
A)13 to 20.
B)20 to 30.
C)30 to 40.
D)40 to 50.
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Chapter 6: Genetics and Personality
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Q1) The equal environments assumption states that
A)all people in a population share similar environments.
B)dizygotic twins are not treated differently from monozygotic twins.
C)twins are not treated differently from ordinary siblings.
D)parents treat all their children the same.
Q2) ______ traits show moderate to high heritability.
A)Psychopathic
B)Religious
C)Idiographic
D)Political
Q3) Barbara is a renowned naturalist.Her parents were both park rangers and she grew up in various national parks.Barbara's predilection to become a naturalist was most likely due to a ______ genotype-environment correlation.
A)active
B)positive
C)negative
D)passive
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Chapter 7: Physiological Approaches to Personality
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Q1) Initially increased levels of serotonin may result in _____, but over time may lead to
A)high levels of anxiety; decreased vulnerability to overreacting to stress
B)strong euphoric states; generally increased happiness
C)high levels of depression; modal levels of euphoria
D)low sensation seeking; high vulnerability to stress
Q2) According to Cloninger, the trait of novelty seeking is related to low levels of A)norepinepherine.
B)serotonin.
C)dopamine.
D)monoamine oxidase.
Q3) Measuring the amount of electricity that passes between two electrodes placed on a person's skin measures
A)cardiovascular reactivity.
B)electrocardiogram activity.
C)electrodermal activity.
D)electroencephalogram activity.
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Chapter 8: Evolutionary Perspectives on Personality
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Q1) Men and women value _____ equally in potential mates, but men place more value on _____.
A)physical attractiveness; earning potential
B)physical attractiveness; a good personality
C)a good personality; physical attractiveness
D)earning potential; physical attractiveness
Q2) _____ emerge from and interact with recurrent structures of the world in a manner that solves adaptive problems and aids in reproductive success.
A)Strategies
B)Adaptations
C)By-products
D)Dimorphisms
Q3) _____ 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
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Chapter 9: Psychoanalytic Approaches to Personality
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Q1) According to Freud, children first begin to direct sexual desire outward during the _____ stage?
A)Oral
B)Anal
C)Phallic
D)Genital
Q2) Freud believed that when his female patients reported being sexually seduced as children, the patients were probably
A)telling the truth.
B)repressing the truth.
C)fulfilling unconscious wishes with fantasies.
D)engaged in sublimation.
Q3) During the _____ stage, a child receives pleasure from expelling or retaining feces.
A)oral
B)anal
C)phallic
D)latency
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Chapter 10: Psychoanalytic Approaches: Contemporary Issues
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Q1) Which of the following best represents Freud's ideas?
A)The cognitive unconscious
B)Ego psychology
C)Id psychology
D)Object relations psychology
Q2) Karen Horney made her feminist critiques of psychoanalysis from
A)1910 to 1930.
B)1930 to 1950.
C)1950 to 1970.
D)1970 to 1990.
Q3) Grandpa Charlie sits with his grandchildren recounting his life.He tells them that if he had it do all over again he would not change a thing.Grandpa Charlie is successfully negotiated the _____ stage of development.
A)intimacy versus isolation
B)integrity versus despair
C)autonomy versus shame and self-doubt
D)generativity versus stagnation
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Chapter 11: Motives and Personality
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Q1) The "Big 3" motives are
A)sex, aggression, and play.
B)competence, sex, and aggression.
C)self-esteem, self-expression, and reality.
D)achievement, power, and intimacy.
Q2) Motivational psychologists ask which of the following questions?
A)What are people like?
B)What do people want?
C)What do people do?
D)Why do people like what they like?
Q3) The idea that people have different levels of different needs is know as
A)the hierarchy of needs.
B)press.
C)motive constellations.
D)the need tree.
Q4) Men tend to have _____ levels of achievement motivation compared to women.
A)much higher
B)slightly higher
C)lower
D)equal
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Chapter 12: Cognitive Topics in Personality
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Q1) According to the Court, Amadou Diallo was shot by police officers
A)because he perceived them as a threat.
B)because he shot at them.
C)because of cognitive errors in the officers' perception.
D)All of these.
Q2) According to Rotter, people differ in
A)their expectations that a course of action will lead to a reinforcement.
B)the value they place on a given reinforcement.
C)whether or not their actions influence events.
D)All of these.
Q3) Individual differences can be observed in all of these EXCEPT
A)perception.
B)interpretation.
C)beliefs and desires.
D)None of these.
Q4) _____ an important aspect of the self.
A)The ways people evaluate their self-worth is
B)Social roles are
C)Identity is
D)All of these
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Chapter 13: Emotion and Personality
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Q1) Which of the following is a potential "third variable" that might explain the correlation between wealth and happiness across countries?
A)Civil rights
B)Health care
C)Education
D)All of these
Q2) Which of the following has NOT been used as a criterion for identifying fundamental or primary emotions?
A)Subjective experience
B)Unique motivational properties
C)Distinct facial expressions
D)Relationship to biological processes
Q3) Wealth has been found to correlate with happiness
A)in studies of lottery winners.
B)across different nations.
C)when comparing people within most countries.
D)All of these.
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Chapter 14: Approaches to the Self
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Q1) Important and difficult life decisions are often accompanied by identity
A)rigidity.
B)contrast.
C)deficit.
D)conflict.
Q2) Children can follow rules set up by parents around the age of
A)6 months.
B)9 months.
C)1 year.
D)2 years.
Q3) A person with high (as opposed to low) self-esteem would be more likely to respond to failure by
A)giving up.
B)accepting it.
C)thinking of other things that are going well.
D)becoming aggressive.
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Chapter 15: Personality and Social Interaction
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Q1) Which of the following is most important to most people in choosing a mate?
A)Political ideology
B)Personality characteristics
C)Health
D)Good looks
Q2) People consider personality traits most when they _____ friends.
A)manipulate
B)evoke
C)select
D)argue with
Q3) People who score high on Machiavellianism are more likely to pursue a
A)tit-for-tat strategy.
B)short-term social strategy.
C)long-term social strategy.
D)a reciprocal strategy
Q4) The manipulation tactic most often used by people low in emotional stability is A)hardball.
B)self-abasement.
C)regression.
D)pleasure induction.
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Chapter 16: Sex, Gender, and Personality
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Q1) Men tend to score higher than women on personality measures of A)aggressiveness.
B)warmth.
C)neuroticism.
D)conscientiousness.
Q2) The finding that men interrupt conversations more frequently then women do is consistent with research on sex differences for which of the following facets of extraversion?
A)Activity
B)Trust
C)Assertiveness
D)Impulsiveness
Q3) Some researchers speculate that _____ explains gender differences between men and women for depression.
A)hormones
B)genetic susceptibility
C)rumination
D)differences on the trait of trust
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Chapter 17: Culture and Personality
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Q1) Evoked cooperation is usually the result of _____ conditions in the environment.
A)no variance
B)low variance
C)medium variance
D)high variance
Q2) A study of Asian Americans living in New York who did not identify themselves as Asian found that they used more
A)self-descriptive adjectives than Euro-Americans.
B)social role adjectives than Euro-Americans.
C)self-descriptive adjectives than Euro-Americans if they identified themselves as Asian.
D)abstract and autonomous self-statements.
Q3) Williams and Best found that most trait adjectives were rated as A)positive.
B)negative.
C)neutral.
D)masculine or feminine.
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Chapter 18: Stress, Coping, Adjustment, and Health
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Q1) Concerns about weight, crime, and taxes are examples of A)daily hassles.
B)major life events.
C)attributional style.
D)emotional inhibition.
Q2) Hostile Type A behavior is thought to lead to heart disease through A)primary appraisals.
B)secondary appraisals.
C)the general adaptation syndrome.
D)arteriosclerosis.
Q3) Which model focuses on how personality influences life style choices (e.g., smoking) that in turn influence health?
A)Health behavior model
B)Interactional model
C)Transactional model
D)Illness behavior model
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Chapter 19: Disorders of Personality
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Q1) People who feel anxious because they feel they do not fit into social groups most likely have _____ personality disorder.
A)schizoid
B)schizotypal
C)antisocial
D)borderline
Q2) The least prevalent personality disorder discussed in your text is
A)antisocial.
B)borderline.
C)narcissistic.
D)schizoid.
Q3) According to _____, a person either has a disorder or does not.
A)abnormal psychologists
B)the neurotic paradox
C)the dimensional view
D)the categorical view
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Chapter 20: Summary and Future Directions
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Q1) Proponents of the evolutionary perspective on personality will continue to ask which of the following basic questions?
A)"What are the basic traits of personality?"
B)"What is the adaptive function of each psychological mechanism?"
C)"Are there sex differences in every domain of personality?"
D)"How close have evolutionary adaptations come to perfection?"
Q2) The fact that our world is becoming "smaller" demonstrates the importance of the _____ domain.
A)intrapsychic
B)social and cultural
C)biological
D)cognitive/experiential
Q3) The domain of personality most concerned with unconscious motivation is the _____ domain
A)intrapsychic
B)dispositional
C)biological
D)cognitive/experiential
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