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Test Bank Personality Psychology: Understanding Yourself and Others, Canadian Edition, 1st Edition by Jean Twenge, Campbell Matsuba. ISBN: 9780137841868. 9780136775591.
Personality Psychology Canadian Edition Test Bank.
Understanding Yourself and Others ; Assessment and Methods ; The Big Five Per...
TEST BANK Personality Psychology: Understanding Yourself and Others
Canadian Edition 1st Edition Jean Twenge
Chapter 01: Understanding Yourself and Others
Multiple Choice Questions
1. How do psychologists define personality?
A) enduring characteristics shown by the majority of human beings
B) a person's patterns of responsiveness that vary across similar situations
C) a person's usual pattern of behaviour, feelings, and thoughts
D) the unfolding of genetic tendencies toward action
Difficulty: Easy
QuestionID: 01-1-01
Topic: Defining Personality
Skill: Remember the Facts
Notes: APA LO—1.1 Describe key concepts, principles, and overarching themes in psychology.
Objective: 1.1 Define personality and describe its history and scope.
Answer: C) a person's usual pattern of behaviour, feelings, and thoughts
2. What does the phrase "usual pattern of behaviour" mean?
A) Behaviour characterizes how most people respond to a given situation.
B) A person reports that she or he experiences the same emotions most of the time.
C) Behaviour is regulated by brain activity and genetic tendencies.
D) A person acts consistently across time or across situations.
Difficulty: Moderate
QuestionID: 01-1-02
Topic: Defining Personality
Skill: Understand the Concepts
Notes: APA LO—1.2 Develop a working knowledge of psychology's content domains.
Objective: 1.1 Define personality and describe its history and scope.
Answer: D) A person acts consistently across time or across situations.
3. Ingo has felt anxious and nervous when he's been asked to speak in public. Given that these feelings
are part of his personality, what is Ingo most likely to say when he's invited to address members of the
Moose Lodge at their upcoming luncheon?
A) "I'd really rather not; thanks all the same."
B) "Sounds great; I'm really looking forward to it!"
C) "Would you like me to prepare notes ahead of time or shall I just 'wing it'?"
D) "Sure, I'll give it a try."
Difficulty: Easy
QuestionID: 01-1-03
Topic: Defining Personality
Skill: Apply What You Know
1-1
,Notes: APA LO—1.3 Describe applications of psychology.
Objective: 1.1 Define personality and describe its history and scope.
Answer: A) "I'd really rather not; thanks all the same."
4. Personality reflects shared human tendencies, but how are these tendencies typically conceptualized?
A) as evolved tendencies that, over time, have resulted in people being very similar
B) as individual differences that vary from person to person
C) as internal workings of human nature that cannot be measured
D) as core traits that are exhibited to the same degree across people
Difficulty: Difficult
QuestionID: 01-1-04
Topic: Defining Personality
Skill: Analyze It
Notes: APA LO—2.1 Use scientific reasoning to interpret psychological phenomena.
Objective: 1.1 Define personality and describe its history and scope.
Answer: B) as individual differences that vary from person to person
5. What limitation applies to most theoretical systems of personality?
A) Personality has proven to be impossible to measure.
B) No personality system can capture all the unique differences among people.
C) It has been difficult to identify a core set of personality dimensions.
D) Personality is, by definition, an unconscious process.
Difficulty: Difficult
QuestionID: 01-1-05
Topic: Defining Personality
Skill: Understand the Concepts
Notes: APA LO—1.2 Develop a working knowledge of psychology's content domains.
Objective: 1.1 Define personality and describe its history and scope.
Answer: B) No personality system can capture all the unique differences among people.
6. How is personality shaped?
A) through a combination of genetic tendencies and environmental influences
B) through a person's conscious decision-making during the first two years of life
C) haphazardly, through a sequence of random events a person might experience
D) by a process of reward and punishment introduced early in life
Difficulty: Easy
QuestionID: 01-1-06
Topic: Defining Personality
Skill: Remember the Facts
Notes: APA LO—1.1 Describe key concepts, principles, and overarching themes in psychology.
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,Objective: 1.1 Define personality and describe its history and scope.
Answer: A) through a combination of genetic tendencies and environmental influences
7. Where do the historical roots of personality psychology begin?
A) the mental testing movement of the late 1800s
B) the investigations of Sir Francis Galton
C) ancient Greek and Roman philosophy and medicine
D) sociological theories of the 1930s
Difficulty: Moderate
QuestionID: 01-1-07
Topic: The Story of Personality Psychology
Skill: Remember the Facts
Notes: APA LO—1.1 Describe key concepts, principles, and overarching themes in psychology.
Objective: 1.1 Define personality and describe its history and scope.
Answer: C) ancient Greek and Roman philosophy and medicine
8. What metaphor did Plato use to describe the struggle between passion and reason?
A) an architect designing a complex structure
B) a chariot driver guiding two horses
C) a bull and an ox pulling in opposite directions
D) a still lake disrupted by ripples from a stone
Difficulty: Difficult
QuestionID: 01-1-08
Topic: The Story of Personality Psychology
Skill: Remember the Facts
Notes: APA LO—1.1 Describe key concepts, principles, and overarching themes in psychology.
Objective: 1.1 Define personality and describe its history and scope.
Answer: B) a chariot driver guiding two horses
9. Where do the roots of the modern trait approach to personality begin?
A) Henry Murray's approach to understanding motivation
B) Carl Jung's psychodynamic view of the self
C) James Cattell's early work on mental testing
D) Hippocrates's and Galen's idea of "humours"
Difficulty: Moderate
QuestionID: 01-1-09
Topic: The Story of Personality Psychology
Skill: Remember the Facts
Notes: APA LO—1.1 Describe key concepts, principles, and overarching themes in psychology.
Objective: 1.1 Define personality and describe its history and scope.
1-3
, Answer: D) Hippocrates's and Galen's idea of "humours"
10. Which example represents the assessment and measurement root of personality psychology?
A) administering a test of extraversion to a large group of people
B) proposing a set number of traits that define the entirety of personality
C) developing a personality theory based on people's unconscious impulses
D) drawing conclusions about personality dimensions based on works of fiction by great authors
Difficulty: Easy
QuestionID: 01-1-10
Topic: The Story of Personality Psychology
Skill: Apply What You Know
Notes: APA LO—1.3 Describe applications of psychology.
Objective: 1.1 Define personality and describe its history and scope.
Answer: A) administering a test of extraversion to a large group of people
11. What question would a trait theorist be most likely to ask?
A) "Why are thoughts and behaviours a product of momentary experiences?"
B) "What are the unconscious drives that motivate human behaviour?"
C) "How do situational constraints influence behaviour?"
D) "Which core personality dimensions determine individual differences?"
Difficulty: Moderate
QuestionID: 01-1-11
Topic: The Story of Personality Psychology
Skill: Apply What You Know
Notes: APA LO—1.3 Describe applications of psychology.
Objective: 1.1 Define personality and describe its history and scope.
12. How is the psychodynamics root of personality psychology represented?
A) through objectively quantifying terms such as trait or goal
B) in the development of objective measures of personality traits
C) by acknowledging unconscious drives and impulses that influence thought and behaviour
D) through an exhaustive catalog of needs that are expressed in human behaviour
Difficulty: Moderate
QuestionID: 01-1-12
Topic: The Story of Personality Psychology
Skill: Understand the Concepts
Notes: APA LO—1.2 Develop a working knowledge of psychology's content domains.
Objective: 1.1 Define personality and describe its history and scope.
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