Personality Psychology: How Much You Know? Quiz

1. Who believed that in order to be a functioning person, you need to "Self-Actualise"?

Pavlov

Rogers

Skinner

Watson

2. What does the term continuity refer to?

How a person behaves over time

How a person behaves in different situations

3. Behavioural Theorists believe that personality...

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

... is learned through experiences

... is static

4. 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

5. What is an example for a random error?

Weather, decoding error

Depression, anxiety

6. Which one is a perfect positive correlation?

+1

-1

0

7. Skinner believed that we develop our adult personality through

A hierarchy of needs

Reward and punishment

Biological and genetic influences

8. Which IQ score indicates mental retardation

Below100

Below90

Below80

Below70

9. 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

10. A theory is good (according to Campbell) if

It is comprehensive,parsimonious, falsifiable, productive

It has good construct validity and convergent validity

11. 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

12. The MBTI is used to measure what?

Intelligence

Introversion/Extroversion

Mental age

Depression/Anxiety

13. Who is famous for his Little Albert experiment?

Watson

Skinner

Pavlov

Allport

14. What is psychological hedonism?

Individuals seek pleasure

Individuals cannot see their own faults

The level to which genes influence our personality

15. Eysencks two supertraits were

Extroversion/ introversion, Emotional stability/neuroticism

Extroversion/ introversion, Emotional stability/psychoticism

Extroversion/ introversion, Regression/neuroticism

16. Who developed the THEORY OF MULTIPLE INTELLIGENCES?

Cattell

Eysenck

Allport

Gardener

Spearman

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

MBTI

PF16

MMPI

18. The reliability of a measure lies between

.1-.5

.01-.05

0-1

19. 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

20. 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

21. What does Grays BAS signal?

STOP

GO

22. What does the term constancy refer to?

How a person behaves over time

How a person behaves in different situations

23. Who was Francis Galton?

The father of psychoanalysis

Father of individual differences and the pioneer of correllation

The pioneer of evolutionary psychology

24. What is the actual score of a construct?

(Mental age / Chronological age) x 100

The true score + error

.05

25. Skinners view of personality is

Idiographic

Nomothetic

Behavioural

Cognitive

Both a and c

Both b and d

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27. The "fluid G" refers to

Metal ability not derived from experience

Mental ability derived from experience

28. 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

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

Evolutionary

Egocentric

Nomothetic

Idiographic

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

Self-actualisation

Feedback control

Greys BAS/BIS

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32. 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

33. In Occupational Pscyhology, which measure is applied?

MBTI

MMPI

SP16

34. 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

35. 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

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

Spearman

Watson

Allport

Cattell

37. 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

38. When is a test reliable?

When it measures what it is supposed to

When it has good face validity

When it is dependable

39. Who identified the two main personality traits, extroversion and introversion

Allport

Gordon

Eysenck

Jung

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

Extroversion, introversion

Excitatory, inhibitory

Psychoticism, neuroticism

41. Which of the following intelligence tests measured mental age?

Stanford-Binet

Binet-Simon

Wechsler

42. 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.

43. The Cronback alpha is very good if

>0.9

.8-.9

44. 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

45. The Expactancy theory is

Behavioural

Socio-cognitive

Evolutionary

Humanistic

46. The trait theory is

Dicontinuous, qualitative, catergorical

Continuous, quantitative, ordinal

Discontinuous, quantitative,nominal

Continuous, qualitative, catergorical

47. PLease Check the correct EYSENCKS GIANT THREE

Openness

Extroversion

Introversion

Agreeableness

Psychoticism

Neuroticism

Conscientiousness

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48. 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

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50. In Emotional Regulation, situation selection refers to

Modify environment to alter its emotional impact

Re evaluate situation one is in or one's capacity to manage the situation

Turn ones attention towards or away from something in order to influence ones emotion

Approach or avoid people or situations on basis of their likely emotional impact

51. A test has convergent validity.

If it measures what it is supposed to

If it measures what it is not supposed to

If it correlates with a similar measure

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

52. Which of the following are aspects of the Expectancy evalutation theory?

Internal locus of control

Behaviour Potential

Situation

Reinforcement value

Expectancy

External locus of control

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53. What do you need, according to Duci's Self-Determination Theory, in order to live a healthy, fulfilled life?

Self-Determination

Competence

Self-efficacy

Relatedness to others

Self-actualisation

A,b,c,

A,b,d

A,c,d

54. Which ones are components of self-regulation?

Reference value

Self actualisation

Standards

Strength

Input

Comparator

Monitoring

Mediator

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