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Psyc 305 Personality Psychology David King Final Exam
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PSYC 305 Personality Psychology Final Exam1. According to Eysenick, which of the following traits is the central
nervous system arousal?
a. Emotional stability
b. Dominance
c. Psychoticism
d. Extraversion
e. Neuroticism
2. Which of the following traits is NOT one of the four narrow traits (facets)
comprising the Honesty-Humility factor of the HEXACO model?
a. Sincerity
b. Modesty
c. Greed avoidance
d. Fairness
e. Honesty
3. Lower expression of the ADRA2C gene, which inhibits the ght-or- ight
response, is believed to account for what trait(s) in humans and
chimpanzees?
a. The propensity for aggression and war
b Altruism and Helping
c. The need to belong
d. Cooperation
e. Hostility
4. If we were attempting to determine how much of Leanne’s personality is
due to genetics and how much is due to the environment, we would?
a. Measure Leanne’s genome
b. Map her chromosomes
c. Compare Leanne to both her parents.
d. Be asking an impossible question
e. Compare Leanne to her siblings
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, 5. The observed correlations among mental toughness and the Big Five
personality traits suggests what about their heritability?
a. They are all associated with the same gene.
b. It is di cult for scientist to precisely determine their heritability
c. They share a common genetic substrate
d. Only three of the Big Five traits share a common genetic substrate
with mental toughness.
6. A problem with the ve-factor model is that?
a. The structure is only applicable using English questionnaires
b. The structure does not replicate across the item formats
c. The ve-factors are only found in males
d. Researchers disagree about what to call the fth factor.
7. Based on the molecular genetic research done to date can speculate
that
a. Personality is probably not related to genes
b. Genes are more important that the environment is shaping
personality.
c. Most traits are caused by a single gene plus the environment.
d. The environment is more important than genes in shaping
personalities.
c. The genetic component of a personality trait is likely the result of
many genes.
8. Which of the following is an example of a shared environmental
in uence?
a. Parents’ values and attitudes
b. Special treatment from a parent.
c. The personality traits of friends
d. The grades a child receives.
e. The was a child is raised
9. The tendency towards high impulsivity is most strongly associated with
which Dark tetrad trait?
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, a. Egoism
b. Subclinical psychopathy
c. Machiavellianism
d. Dispositional sadism
c. Narcissism
10. According to research on altruism, younger people are help__________
than older people in life-or-death situations, while older people are
helped__________ than middle-aged people in everyday tasks.
a. More; more
b. Less; more
c. More; no more
d. More; less
e. Less; less
11. If an individual maintains their rank order for a trait relative to a
particular group, but changes the behaviours manifested by that trait over
time, the individual is exhibiting?
a. Validity coe cients.
b. Aggregation
c. Personality coherence
d. Mean level stability
e. Rank order stability
12. A person who feels very good after receiving a compliment, but very
bad after being insulted, would score high on measures of?
a. Self-esteem reactivity
b. Self-esteem variability
c. Activity level
d. Both self-esteem and self-variability
13. The “Goldilocks zone” of personality measurement refers to?
a. A normal bell curve distribution resulting from trait measurement.
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