Personality Theory MCQs

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We can define personality as:

psychological qualities that contribute to an individual's enduring and distinctive

patterns of feeling, thinking and behaving
psychological qualities that contribute to an individual's enduring and distinctive
patters of behaving
psychological qualities that contribute to an individual's enduring and distinctive
patters of thinking
psychological qualities that contribute to an individual's enduring and distinctive
patters of feeling

Comprehensive accounts of personality and personality structure can

be found:
in the works of Cicero and Demosthenes

in the works of Hippocrates (460–370 BC) and Galen (AD 129–199)

in the works of Russell and Wittgenstein

in the works of Popper and Kuhn

The founding father of modern personality theory is:

Raymond Cattell (1905–98)

Sigmund Freud (1856-1939)

Gordon Allport (1897-1967)

Hans Eysenck (1916–97)

Which two conceptual approaches dominated personality research
during the 20th century?
those of Karen Horney (1885–1952) and Sigmund Freud (1856–1939)

those of Erich Fromm (1900–80) and Erik Erikson (1902–94)

those of Karen Horney (1885–1952) and Carl Jung (1875–1961)

those of Hans Eysenck (1916–97) and Raymond Cattell (1905–98)

The framework known as the PEN model of personality comprises:

psychoticism, emotion, neuroticism

psychoticism, extraversion, neuroticism

psychodynamic, extraversion, neurology

psychiatry, extraversion, neuroticism

The big five model of personality contains the following dimensions:

openness, conscientiousness, extraversion, agreeableness, narcissism

conscientiousness, agreeableness, neuroticism, openness, extraversion

openness, narcissism, psychoticism, conscientiousness, extraversion

psychoticism, neuroticism, extraversion, openness, agreeableness

The relationship between personality and sport performance has been

under investigation for over:
50 years

70 years

30 years

10 years
Compared with non-regular starters, there is evidence that athletes
who are regular starters have:
higher levels of extraversion and higher levels of neuroticism

lower levels of extraversion and lower levels of neuroticism

higher levels of extraversion and lower levels of neuroticism

lower levels of extraversion and higher levels of neuroticism

Compared with individual sport athletes, team sport athletes have:

lower levels of extraversion and lower levels of conscientiousness

lower levels of extraversion and higher levels of conscientiousness

higher levels of extraversion and higher levels of conscientiousness

higher levels of extraversion and lower levels of conscientiousness

Research in athletic dyads has shown that athletes who are more
committed to their athletic partnership have:
high levels of agreeableness, conscientiousness or openness

high levels of extraversion, neuroticism and agreeableness

low levels of agreeableness, conscientiousness or openness

moderate levels of extraversion, agreeableness and openness