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Personality-Development (Set 1)
Personality-Development (Set 1)
1 of 2 sets
2. At what time of life does Erikson stage Industry vs. Inferiority occur?
A. old age
B. adolescence
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C. infancy
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D. school age
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Answer:D a
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3. If a young adult sees stealing as wrong because of the harm it brings to someone,
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which of Kolberg?s stages are they displaying?
A. punishment and obedience orientation
B. good boy?good girl orientation
C. legalistic orientation
D. social order orientation
Answer:C
4. Bob hasn?t missed a day of work since he started his job three years ago. Every
morning he comes in with a smile on his face that remains there until he leaves. He
works for a charity and it gives him great satisfaction to know that he?s helping
others. He loves his job. Bob is most likely
A. a workaholic
B. driven by protestant work ethic
C. burned out
D. work enthusiast
Answer:D
5. A relationship based on a previous friendship that developed into lovers is
characteristic of what love style?
A. agape
B. storge
C. ludus
D. pragma
Answer:B
6. A mother and her infant son are being tested by Aisworth?s Strange Situation
procedure. After the mother has left and comes back onto the room the child acts
like he is mad at the mother. This child is said to be?
A. secure
B. anxious
C. highly neurotic
D. avoidant
Answer:D
7. Some people crave high levels of arousal through high levels of stimulation. They
are said to be
A. sensation seekers
B. excitation transfers
C. securely attached
D. inhibited
Answer:A
12. Which love style does this example fir? "I try to keep lover a little uncertain
about my commitment to him/her".
A. pragma
B. agape
C. storge
D. ludus
Answer:D
18. Ever since Roxanne could remember, she had always wanted to be an Olympic
gymnast?never once had she suggested anything else! In grade school, she asked
parents to send her to gymnast team. When her friend asked her to go to "career
day", Roxanne said that she didn?t need to. According to Marcia, she is
demonstrating
A. identity achievement
B. identity diffusion
C. identity foreclosure
19. John and Jane have two children?Billy, 21 and Jerome who?s only 10. Which
of the following statement is probably true?
A. billy has low n affil and high n ach
B. birth order has no impact on personality
C. jerome has high n ach and high n power
D. jerome?s personality will drastically change as he becomes older
Answer:A
20. According to James Marcia, a person who has never doubted what they wanted
to become and so never explored other options is considered to be
A. in moratorium
B. identity achieved
C. identity foreclosed
D. in identity diffusion status
Answer:C
21. Which one of the following descriptions is best associated with Protestant Work
Ethic?
A. always attributes success to ability
B. tends to spend money a lot
C. belief in the value of hard work
D. take credit for the work of others
Answer:C
22. The identity status that Marcia came up with that involved the early acceptance
of choice is what?
A. identity diffusion
B. identity foreclosure
C. moratorium
D. identity achievement
Answer:B
24. Which style of love matches this statement "I try to keep my lover a little
uncertain about my commitment to him/her"?
A. eros
B. ludus
C. storge
D. pragma
Answer:B
27. People high in the trait of ________ are more easily conditioned with emotional
stimuli.
A. neuroticism
B. extraversion
C. psychoticism
D. agreeableness
Answer:A
29. _________ vs. _________ achieved a high .75 on the heritability of Cattell?s 16
PF.
A. relaxed vs. tense
B. conservative vs. liberal
C. concrete vs. abstract
D. sober vs. enthusiastic
Answer:C
30. Which of the following is NOT one of the Erikson?s stages of psychosocial
development?
A. industry vs. inferiority
B. intimacy vs. isolation
C. trust vs. mistrust
D. life vs. death
Answer:D
34. The part of personality development where one seems to have no evidence of
exploration and also does not have a clear identity is
A. identity diffusion
B. identity foreclosure
C. moratorium
D. identity achievement
Answer:A
35. According to James Marcia?s identity statuses, which of the following is NOT
an identity status?
A. identity foreclosure
B. identity association
C. moratorium
D. identity diffusion
Answer:B
39. The idea that you can assess someone’s personality by studying their face is
called:
A. phrenology
B. physiology
C. somatology
D. physiognomy
Answer:B
43. Which of the following is NOT one of the Big Five traits?
A. sense of humour
B. openness to experience
C. conscientiousness
D. extraversion
Answer:B
51. People with different body types have different personalities has been:
A. supported by research
B. discredited
54. ________ are the basic biological units that transmit characteristics from one
generation to the next:
A. genes
B. neurons
C. glia
D. instincts
Answer:B
57. Lana is friendly, always willing to help others and compassionate. We would
expect Lana to score highly on:
A. extraversion
B. agreeableness
C. neuroticism
D. openness to experience
Answer:A
59. Most people categorize most rapidly at the _____ level of hierarchy
A. hyperordinate
B. superordinate
C. subordinate
D. basic
Answer:B
61. Which of the following is the smallest unit within a language system?
62. What is the nature of the relationship between language and thought according
to the strong version of linguistic relativity hypothesis?
A. there is two directional interaction between language and thought
B. language interacts with thought
C. thought is required for language
D. language determines thought
Answer:D
63. What is the nature of the relationship between language and thought according
to the weak version of linguistic relativity hypothesis?
A. there is two directional interaction between language and thought
B. language only interacts with thought
C. there is two directional interaction between language and thought
D. language determines thought
Answer:B
64. Damage to which area of brain can impair general planning ability according
to Owen?
A. hippocampus
B. cerebellum
C. prefrontal cortex
D. hypothalamus
Answer:C
65. Reasoning involving moving from specific facts to a conclusion is also known as
A. conditional reasoning
B. ill-defined problem
C. deductive reasoning
D. inductive reasoning
Answer:D
67. When related sentences are put together to make a sensible message, this is
referred to as
A. context
B. semantics
C. pragmatics
D. discourse
Answer:D
68. The common term used to describe all types of language loss is
A. dyslexia
B. aphasia
C. dysphasia
D. lexphasia
Answer:B
71. The temporary inability to retrieve a word that is well known to us is referred
to as
A. recency effect
B. tip-of-the-tongue phenomenon
C. wernicke\s aphasia
D. broca\s aphasia
Answer:B
75. A student taking multiple choice test by reading the stem of each item,
generating the correct response closest to the answer is using
A. vicarious problem solving
B. semantics
C. heuristics
78. A perceptual set that causes one to become hung up on wrong solutions or
remain blind to alternatives is called
A. fixation
B. incubation
C. creative thinking
D. conditional thinking
Answer:A
79. General 'mental short cuts' or quick decision making rules could be considered
what type of problem solving strategy?
A. heuristics
B. ideal strategy
C. brainstorming
D. graphical representations
Answer:A
88. The entry point of memory- the initial stage of the memory system in which all
of
the stimuli that bombard our senses are retained in their original sensory form for
a
very brief time
A. sensory memory
B. long term memory
C. short term memory
D. implicit memory
Answer:A
90. The process of linking new information in a meaningful way with information
already stored in memory or with other new information; to aid in its storage and
retrieval from long term memory
A. maintenance rehearsal
B. elaborative rehearsal
C. non-specific rehearsal
D. sustenance rehearsal
Answer:B
91. The relatively permanent memory system that holds vast amount of
information for a long period of time
A. sensory memory
B. long term memory
C. short term memory
D. iconic memory
Answer:B
92. Psychologists have distinguished between two types of long term memory
storage. They are called
A. assertive and procedural memory
B. declarative and assertive memory
C. assertive and interrogatory memory
D. declarative and non-declarative memory
Answer:D
93. The declarative memory system that holds information about specific events or
personal experiences; the declarative memory system that stores the information
we
have about the world
A. episodic; semantic
B. semantic; episodic
C. procedural; explicit
D. explicit; procedural
Answer:A
95. The persistence of learning over time through the encoding , storage and
retrieval of information
A. memory
B. learning
C. serial position effect
D. semantic learning
Answer:A
97. The most common effortful processing technique where information is repeated
A. mnemonics
B. recall
C. recognition
D. rehearsal
Answer:D