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This document provides multiple choice questions and answers related to a personality psychology exam. It includes 20 questions covering topics like the trait approach, correlation, reliability, implicit personality theories, and prominent theorists like Cattell, Eysenck, and Sheldon. For each question, the text provides the answer and cites the source as either a textbook chapter or lecture notes.

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Multiple - Docx Personality

This document provides multiple choice questions and answers related to a personality psychology exam. It includes 20 questions covering topics like the trait approach, correlation, reliability, implicit personality theories, and prominent theorists like Cattell, Eysenck, and Sheldon. For each question, the text provides the answer and cites the source as either a textbook chapter or lecture notes.

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Multiple-Choice Study Questions for First ExamSet 3

One trait that dominates a personality so much that it influences nearly everything a
person does is a:
a. Global Trait
b. Cardinal Trait
c. Specific trait
d. Central Trait
e. Secondary trait
Answer: b
From: Textbook, p. 75
The method of science requires that independent observers must:
a. verify data.
b. state a hypothesis in a form that can be tested
c. derive a hypothesis from theory
d. All of the above
e. None of the above
Answer: d
From: Textbook, p. 7-8
The more hot and humid the weather, the less clothing a person wears is an example
of:
a. moderate correlation
b. low correlation
c. negative correlation
d. high positive correlation
e. no relationship
Answer: c
From: Lecture notes, Sept. 10
Lisa Imbrogno

Talkative vs. silent; frank, open vs. secretive; adventurous vs. cautious; sociable vs.
reclusivethese traits describe which dimension of personality?
a. Agreeableness
b. Conscientiousness
c. Extraversion
d. Culture
e. Emotional Stability
Answer: c
Robert Kidwell

Approximately how many trait words for personality are there in the English
language?
a. 18,000
b. 1,000
c. 10,000
d. 500
e. 5,000
Answer: a
From: Lecture notes, 9/8/98
Jamie McCallister

Who is the pioneer that proposed the 16 basic dimensions of normal personality and
devised a questionnaire (16PF) to measure them?
a. Carl Jung
b. Raymond Cattell
c. Julian Rotter

d. Gordon Allport
e. None of the above
Answer: b
From: Textbook, p. 95
Kyle Chen

When analyzing a past president to describe his personality by coding letters or


speeches he has written, you are using a process called
a. Big Five
b. content analysis
c. personality assumptions
d. Implicit Personality Theory
e. cognitive approach
Answer: b
From: Lecture notes, 9/10/98 and Textbook, p. 40
The best known lexical research on terms relevant to personality was conducted by
whom and how many terms were compiled in this study?
a. Sheldon/3
b. Ancient Greeks/4
c. Allport/17,953
d. Gordon/5
e. Cattell/18,835
Answer: c
From: Lecture notes, 9/8/98 and Textbook, p. 38
During psychology you are falling asleep. You know last night you only got three
hours of sleep; therefore you have a valid reason. The person sitting in front of you is
sleeping also. You automatically think that they are lazy and really dont care about
the class. This is an example of

a. Halo effect
b. Implicit Personality Theory
c. Observer bias
d. stereotype
e. None of the above
Answer: c
From: Lecture, 9/9/98 and Textbook, p. 46
Marla Turco

Positive correlations (from 0.01 to 1.00) indicate that, as one factor goes ________,
the other factor goes __________.
a. down, up
b. up, down
c. up, up
d. both a and b
e. All of the above
Answer: c
From: Lecture, 9/10/98 and Textbook, p. 41-43.
Which strategy IMPROVES the reliability of a research design?
a. make the test shorter
b. standardize all circumstances under which the test is administered, including
instructions.
c. delete all items from the test that do not correlate with the other items.
d. b and c only
e. a, b, and c are correct
Answer: d
From: textbook, p. 14-15
Which of the statements below are FALSE?

a. Since Personality psychology has competing viewpoints, it is considered a


paradigm.
b. Science judges the truth of statements based on the empirical method.
c. Personality encompasses diverse qualities of individuals (e.g., biology, social
influences, childhood experiences, etc.)
d. Science demands that hypotheses be discarded if they are not confirmed by
observation.
e. According to the method of science, the study of private experience is problematic.
Answer: a
From: Textbook, p. 3-4
Ron Henderson

What correlation coefficient value would most likely represent a completely inverse
proportionality between a behavior and a trait?
a. 1.0
b. 0.25
c. 0.0
d. 0.5
e. 1.0
Answer: e
From: Lecture, Sept. 10
Which range best targets the number of "Central Traits" that have been identified?
a. 5-8
b. 5-200
c. 17,000-18,000
d. 19,000-20,000
e. None of the above
Answer: a
From: Textbook, p. 75
Jason Spector

Which of the following examples is most likely to have a negative correlation?


a. Number of hours spent studying and test scores
b. Amount of violent television viewed and number of aggressive acts committed
c. How many times the subject smiles per day and their unhappiness level
d. Weight and height
e. Your test scores and the Russian economy in 1994
Answer: c
From: Textbook, p. 41
Jaclyn Pritts

The Ancient Greeks hypothesized that there were 4 different personality


characteristics. The four characteristics are:
a. irritability, optimism, pessimism, calmness
b. calmness, depression, pessimism, irritability
c. depression, irritability, pessimism, optimism
d. irritability, depression, optimism, calmness
e. calmness, optimism, pessimism, depression
Answer: d
From: Lecture note #3
Sheldon proposed three different types of traits. The traits that would best describe a
football player would be:
a. mesomorph
b. endomorph
c. ectomorph
d. activomorph
e. None of the above

Answer: a
From: Lecture notes on Chapter 3
Rebecca Kyriakopoulos

Which of the following would be an example of a correlational strategy of academic


research?
a. testing a hypothesis with an experimental group
b. having a group fill out questionnaires
c. using the scientific method
d. a clinician diagnosing his/her patient
e. using the electric shock method to illustrate classical conditioning
Answer: b
From: Textbook, p. 11
Danielle London

If you had a correlation of positive one, the related items would be:
a. completely unrelated
b. moderately correlated
c. very highly correlated
d. identical
e. lowly correlated
Answer: d
From: Lecture, Sept. 10
In analyzing data, measurements are sometimes categorical, for example "smiles" or
"frowns". This type of measurement is called
a. qualitative measurement
b. quantitative measurement

c. reliability
d. validity
e. psychometrics
Answer: a
From: Textbook, p. 13
Kristy L. Walter

If you say that a movie is really good and you like it you would also assume that your
best friend would like it. What implicit personality theory is this?
a. stereotype
b. perceived similarity
c. Halo effect
d. observer bias
e. All of the above
Answer: b
From: Lecture notes, 9/8/98
Julie Jansen

A more neutral term personality type categories or a typical or exemplary instance of a


category is
a. stereotype
b. observation bias
c. openness
d. open-minded
e. prototype
Answer: e
From: Textbook, p. 51
Alycia Gaskill

If one is measuring the relationship between two things and the research he or she
does shows that there is absolutely no relation existing between the two, the
correlation is said to be
a. 0
b. 0.3
c. 0.8
d. 1
e. -1
Answer: a
From: Lecture, 9/10/98
Heather Daniel

From the Big Five personality dimensions, behaviors such as speaking fluently,
displaying ambition, and exhibiting a high degree of intelligence is
a. Agreeableness
b. Openness
c. Extraversion
d. Conscientiousness
e. Neuroticism
Answer: d
From: textbook, p. 53
Erin Rocco

Psychologists seek to understand Robs personality through his thoughts, beliefs and
their impact on his behavior in certain situations. This is known as the

a. trait approach
b. humanistic approach
c. cognitive approach
d. psychoanalytic approach
e. All of the above
Answer: c
From: Textbook, p. 9
Devins personality is researched through 3 factors: extraversion, neuroticism and
psychoticism. This personality trait model is called:
a. Eysencks Trait Model
b. Myers-Briggs Type Indicator
c. Smith Model
d. Cattells Sixteen factor Model
e. Big Five
Answer: a
From: Lecture notes, 9/15/98
Shaun Griffin

What type of personality focuses on how people adapt to everyday life and intervenes
to improve the lives of individuals through therapy?
a. Academic psychology
b. Clinical Psychology
c. Practical Psychology
d. Applied Psychology
e. None of the above
Answer: b
From: Lecture notes, 9/3/98
Heather Frymyer

Which of the following would be a phenomenological approach to the study of


personality?
a. emphasize subjects feelings
b. emphasize subjects thoughts
c. emphasize the meaning that people ascribe to events, not simply the objective
events themselves
d. attempt to understand an individual in his or her fullness, rather than only selected
aspects of the person relevant to a small number of traits or other dimensions
e. All of the above
Answer: e
From: Textbook, p. 64
Ellen Krysinski

What is the trait approach to personality?


a. Assumes that people are motivated by unconscious emotional conflicts
b. Assumes that each individual has stable personality characteristics
c. Assumes that peoples thoughts and beliefs are central to personality
d. Assumes that people have an innate tendency to become self-actualized
e. Assumes that people are motivated by conflicts originating in childhood
Answer: b
From: Textbook, p. 5
Jennifer Katz

William Sheldon suggested that body build was associated with personality traits.
Which one best describes a person whos sensitive and intellectual?
a. conservative
b. neurotic
c. endomorph

d. mesomorph
e. ectomorph
Answer: e
Textbook, p. 185
Tyuana Fayette

Eysenck originally developed ________________, a highly researched factor theory


of personality.
a. an interpersonal trait model
b. a sixteen factor model
c. a three factor model
d. the Big Five
e. the Implicit personality theory
Answer: c
From: Textbook, p. 98
Natalie Daprile

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