4/20/2021 PSY255-BA: Quiz Week 1
Quiz Week 1
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Test Score
93.34% (A)
Start Time
Apr 13, 2021 6:34am
End Time
Apr 13, 2021 6:54am Past due time
1) How do psychologists define personality?
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enduring characteristics shown by the majority of human beings
the unfolding of genetic tendencies toward action
a person’s patterns of responsiveness that vary across similar situations
a person’s usual pattern of behavior, feelings, and thoughts
2) What does the phrase “usual pattern of behavior” mean?
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A person reports that she or he experiences the same emotions most of the time.
A person acts consistently across time or across situations.
Behavior characterizes how most people respond to a given situation.
Behavior is regulated by brain activity and genetic tendencies.
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?
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“Would you like me to prepare notes ahead of time or speak extemporaneously?”
“Sure, I’ll give it a try.”
“I’d really rather not; thanks all the same.”
“Sounds great; I’m really looking forward to it!”
4) Personality reflects shared human tendencies, but how are these tendencies typically conceptualized?
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as a part of our evolutionary heritage, honed to a common point over time
as internal workings of human nature that cannot be measured
as individual differences that vary from person to person
as core traits that are exhibited to the same degree across people
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5) What limitation applies to most theoretical systems of personality?
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No personality system can capture all the unique differences among people.
Personality is, by definition, an unconscious process.
It has been difficult to identify a core set of personality dimensions.
Personality has proven to be impossible to measure.
6) How is personality shaped?
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through a combination of genetic tendencies and environmental influences
through a person’s conscious decision-making during the first two years of life
by a process of reward and punishment introduced early in life
haphazardly, through a sequence of random events a person might experience
7) Where do the historical roots of personality psychology begin?
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the mental testing movement of the late 1800s
the investigations of Sir Francis Galton
sociological theories of the 1930s
ancient Greek and Roman philosophy and medicine
8) What metaphor did Plato use to describe the struggle between passion and reason?
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a still lake disrupted by ripples from a stone
an architect designing a complex structure
a chariot driver guiding two horses
a bull and an ox pulling in opposite directions
9) Where do the roots of the modern trait approach to personality begin?
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Hippocrates’s and Galen’s idea of “humors”
Carl Jung’s psychodynamic view of the self
James Cattell’s early work on mental testing
Henry Murray’s approach to understanding motivation
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10) Which example represents the assessment and measurement root of personality psychology?
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proposing a set number of traits that define the entirety of personality
administering a test of extraversion to a large group of people
developing a personality theory based on people’s unconscious impulses
drawing conclusions about personality dimensions based on works of fiction by great authors
11) What question would a trait theorist be most likely to ask?
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“What are the unconscious drives that motivate human behavior?”
“Which core personality dimensions determine individual differences?”
“Why are thoughts and behaviors a product of momentary experiences?”
“How do situational constraints influence behavior?”
12) How is the psychodynamics root of personality psychology represented?
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by acknowledging unconscious drives and impulses that influence thought and behavior
in the development of objective measures of personality traits
through an exhaustive catalog of needs that are expressed in human behavior
through objectively quantifying terms such as trait or goal
13) Why is the study of the self important to personality psychology?
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The study of the self allowed personality psychology to become a quantitative science.
The “self” is an unconscious ideal and therefore contributes to the psychodynamic approach.
This area of investigation examines questions of identity.
Selves and traits can be used as interchangeable terms.
14) At its core, what does personality psychology deal with?
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ways to apply basic scientific insights to the concerns of everyday life
whether human nature is better characterized as a process of stability or a process of change
fundamental questions about who we are and how we got that way
how social settings determine the actions a person takes
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15) What is meant when psychology is called a “hub” field?
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“Hub” fields represent areas of study that have reached a theoretical dead end.
It is an area of study that links and unifies other areas of study.
“Hub” fields attract a small number of researchers investigating a single, highly focused topic.
It is a field of inquiry that is tangential to other major, more substantial fields.
Test
100 points
Due Apr 11, 2021 11:59pm
Grade
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