Personality, 9th Ed., (Burger), Chapter 9 Exam || With Questions & Answers (Graded A+)
Personality, 9th Ed., (Burger), Chapter 9 Exam || With Questions & Answers (Graded A+)
Which of the following is true about the trait approach to personality?
A. Trait researchers generally are not interes...
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, Personality, 9th Ed., (Burger), Chapter 9
Exam || With Questions & Answers
(Graded A+)
Which of the following is true about the trait approach to personality?
A. Trait researchers generally are not interested in understanding and predicting the
behavior of a single individual.
B. It is not easy to make comparisons across people with the trait approach.
C. The trait approach has been responsible for generating a number of useful
approaches to psychotherapy.
D. Trait theorists place a greater emphasis on discovering the mechanisms underlying
behavior than do theorists from other approaches to personality. - ANSWER - A. Trait
researchers generally are not interested in understanding and predicting the behavior of
a single individual.
Traits were introduced into the field of personality psychology by
A. Gordon Allport
B. Raymond Cattell
C. Carl Jung
D. Henry Murray - ANSWER - A. Gordon Allport
According to Allport, which of the following is true about central traits?
A. They are basically the same for all people.
B. They are useful when examining personality through the nomothetic approach.
C. They are useful when examining personality through the idiographic approach.
D. They are comprised of a number of secondary traits. - ANSWER - C. They are useful
when examining personality through the idiographic approach.
The idiographic approach to personality has advantages. For example,
A. researchers can compare all people on measures of a certain trait.
B. it reveals common traits.
C. the person rather than the researcher determines what traits to examine.
D. it provides information about the relationship between traits and behavior. -
ANSWER - C. the person rather than the researcher determines what traits to examine.
A man is said to have one personality trait that dominates his personality. Allport would
identify this personality trait as a
A. common trait.
, B. central trait.
C. cardinal trait.
D. secondary trait. - ANSWER - C. cardinal trait.
A psychologist collects data from a large number of people. She places each person on
a continuum ranging from high to low conscientiousness and makes predictions about
how people in the high range will act compared to those in the low range. This
psychologist is using which approach to understanding personality?
A. Type approach
B. Nomothetic approach
C. Idiographic approach
D. Common trait approach - ANSWER - B. Nomothetic approach
People with traits that dominate their personality can be described with a
A. cardinal trait.
B. central trait.
C. idiographic map.
D. secondary trait. - ANSWER - A. cardinal trait.
Allport called the five to 10 traits that best describe an individual's personality
A. central traits.
B. common traits.
C. cardinal traits.
D. the Big Five. - ANSWER - A. central traits.
Which theorist had a strong influence on Henry Murray's theorizing about personality?
A. Gordon Allport
B. Alfred Adler
C. Sigmund Freud
D. Carl Jung - ANSWER - D. Carl Jung
Which theorist identified psychogenic needs as the basic elements of personality?
A. Gordon Allport
B. Raymond Cattell
C. Carl Jung
D. Henry Murray - ANSWER - D. Henry Murray
Which of the following is not a psychogenic need?
A. dominance
B. affiliation
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