106 Review Questions for Personality
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Multiple Choice Questions
1. Personality is thought to be ________.
- short term and easily changed
- a pattern of short-term characteristics
- unstable and short term
- long term, stable and not easily changed
2. The long-standing traits and patterns that propel individuals to consistently think, feel, and behave in specific ways are known as ________.
- psychodynamic
- temperament
- humors
- personality
3. ________ is credited with the first comprehensive theory of personality.
- Hippocrates
- Gall
- Wundt
- Freud
4. An early science that tried to correlate personality with measurements of parts of a person’s skull is known as ________.
- phrenology
- psychology
- physiology
- personality psychology
5. The id operates on the ________ principle.
- reality
- pleasure
- instant gratification
- guilt
6. The ego defense mechanism in which a person who is confronted with anxiety returns to a more immature behavioural stage is called ________.
- repression
- regression
- reaction formation
- rationalization
7. The Oedipus complex occurs in the ________ stage of psychosexual development.
- oral
- anal
- phallic
- latency
8. The universal bank of ideas, images, and concepts that have been passed down through the generations from our ancestors refers to ________.
- archetypes
- intuition
- collective unconscious
- personality types
9. Self-regulation is also known as ________.
- self-efficacy
- will power
- internal locus of control
- external locus of control
10. Your level of confidence in your own abilities is known as ________.
- self-efficacy
- self-concept
- self-control
- self-esteem
11. Giang believes that they got a bad grade on their psychology paper because their professor doesn’t like them. Giang most likely has an _______ locus of control.
- internal
- external
- intrinsic
- extrinsic
12. Self-concept refers to ________.
- our level of confidence in our own abilities
- all of our thoughts and feelings about ourselves
- the belief that we control our own outcomes
- the belief that our outcomes are outside of our control
13. The idea that people’s ideas about themselves should match their actions is called ________.
- confluence
- conscious
- conscientiousness
- congruence
14. The way a person reacts to the world, starting when they are very young, including the person’s activity level is known as ________.
- traits
- temperament
- heritability
- personality
15. Sandeep is 18 months old. Sandeep cries frequently, is hard to soothe, and wakes frequently during the night. According to Thomas and Chess, Sandeep would be considered ________.
- an easy baby
- a difficult baby
- a slow to warm up baby
- a colicky baby
16. According to the findings of the Minnesota Study of Twins Reared Apart, identical twins, whether raised together or apart have ________ personalities.
- slightly different
- very different
- slightly similar
- very similar
17. Temperament refers to ________.
- inborn, g