Personality Psychology: How Much You Know? Quiz

What does the term continuity refer to?

• How a person behaves over time

• How a person behaves in different situations

Behavioural Theorists believe that personality...

• .... is a set of processes in the mind

• ... is learned through experiences

• ... is static

According to Rogers, Self Esteem depends on the difference between what?

• Self-actualisation and self-efficacy

• The actual self and the ideal self

• The hierarchy of needs

What is an example for a random error?

• Weather, decoding error

• Depression, anxiety

Which one is a perfect positive correlation?

• +1

• -1

• 0

Skinner believed that we develop our adult personality through

• A hierarchy of needs

• Reward and punishment

• Biological and genetic influences

Which IQ score indicates mental retardation

• Below100

• Below90

• Below80

• Below70

Grays BAS shows activity on the _____ frontal side of the brain, whereas BIS shows on the _____ frontal side of the brain.

• Left, Right

• Right, Left

• None of the above

A theory is good (according to Campbell) if 

• It is comprehensive,parsimonious, falsifiable, productive

• It has good construct validity and convergent validity

Which obstacle in problem-solving do "faulty heuristics" refer to?

• Faulty shortcuts to solve complex tasks

• Self imposed limitations

• Using old strategies on new problems

The MBTI is used to measure what?

• Intelligence

• Introversion/Extroversion

• Mental age

• Depression/Anxiety

Who is famous for his Little Albert experiment?

• Watson

• Skinner

• Pavlov

• Allport

What is psychological hedonism?

• Individuals seek pleasure

• Individuals cannot see their own faults

• The level to which genes influence our personality

Eysencks two supertraits were

• Extroversion/ introversion, Emotional stability/neuroticism

• Extroversion/ introversion, Emotional stability/psychoticism

• Extroversion/ introversion, Regression/neuroticism

Who developed the THEORY OF MULTIPLE INTELLIGENCES?

• Cattell

• Eysenck

• Allport

• Gardener

• Spearman

Which measure is applied in clinical councelling to assess clients strenghts, weaknesses etc

• MBTI

• PF16

• MMPI

The reliability of a measure lies between

• .1-.5

• .01-.05

• 0-1

What is discriminant validity

• If the test scores correllate with another measure it is supposed to correlate with

• If a measure does not correllate with a measure it is not supposed to correlate with

• If the measure correlates with another relevant variable

There are as many traits as there are people. one trait may be posessed by only one person. This statement is

• Evolutionary

• Egocentric

• Nomothetic

• Idiographic

What does Grays BAS signal?

• STOP

• GO

What does the term constancy refer to?

• How a person behaves over time

• How a person behaves in different situations

Who was Francis Galton?

• The father of psychoanalysis

• Father of individual differences and the pioneer of correllation

• The pioneer of evolutionary psychology

What is the actual score of a construct?

• (Mental age / Chronological age) x 100

• The true score + error

• .05

Skinners view of personality is

• Idiographic

• Nomothetic

• Behavioural

• Cognitive

• Both a and c

• Both b and d

A _______ enables one variable to be predicted by another set of variables.

The "fluid G" refers to

• Metal ability not derived from experience

• Mental ability derived from experience

What is criterion validity?

• If the test measures what it is supposed to

• If the test measures what it is not supposed to

• If the test correlates with a similar measure

• If the test results are correlated to a similar relevant variable

All traits are the same in every person. They each have the same meaning to everybody. This statement is

• Evolutionary

• Egocentric

• Nomothetic

• Idiographic

The following are a part of what system? Reference value input comparator output

• Self-actualisation

• Feedback control

• Greys BAS/BIS

If a research starts without a theory, it is called __________ and it is ___________

What obstacle in problem-solving does "mental set" refer to?

• Creating shortcuts for complex tasks

• Using an old strategy for a new problem

• Self-imposed limitations

In Occupational Pscyhology, which measure is applied?

• MBTI

• MMPI

• SP16

What is mediation?

• The conflict between Id, Ego, Superego

• Cognition acting as a mediator between stimulus and response

• The unconscious acting as a mediator between different defense mechanisms

• A correlation between two variables is dependent on a third variable

During which phase did Freud release The interpretation of dreams?

• The affect Trauma model

• The Topographical model of the mind

• The structural model of the mind

Who identified the "fluid G" and the "crystallised G"?

• Spearman

• Watson

• Allport

• Cattell

IN emotion regulation, Situation modification refers to

• Approach/avoid people or situations based on their likely emotional impact

• Re evaluate situation one is is or one's capacity to manage the situation to alter ones emotion

• Modify environment to alter its emotional impact

• Turn attention away/towards something in order to influence one's emotion

When is a test reliable?

• When it measures what it is supposed to

• When it has good face validity

• When it is dependable

Who identified the two main personality traits, extroversion and introversion

• Allport

• Gordon

• Eysenck

• Jung

According to Eysenck, the human brain consists of two neural mechanisms

• Extroversion, introversion

• Excitatory, inhibitory

• Psychoticism, neuroticism

Which of the following intelligence tests measured mental age?

• Stanford-Binet

• Binet-Simon

• Wechsler

What does the term dynamic organization refer to?

• The relationship between Unconscious and Conscious

• The relationship between Id, Ego and Superego

• Personality is not static.

The Cronback alpha is very good if

• >0.9

• .8-.9

What is concurrent validity?

• If scores correlate with other measure they are supposed to correlate with

• If we want to correlate test scores and criterion scores at the same time

The Expactancy theory is

• Behavioural

• Socio-cognitive

• Evolutionary

• Humanistic

The trait theory is

• Dicontinuous, qualitative, catergorical

• Continuous, quantitative, ordinal

• Discontinuous, quantitative,nominal

• Continuous, qualitative, catergorical

PLease Check the correct EYSENCKS GIANT THREE

• Openness

• Extroversion

• Introversion

• Agreeableness

• Psychoticism

• Neuroticism

• Conscientiousness

In emotion regulation, if you turn your attention towards or away from something in order to influence your emotion, it is called

• Situation selection

• Situation modification

• Attention deployment

• Cognitive change

A test that is _____ may be _______, but a test that is ______ may not be _____ options: valid, invalid, reliable, unreliable