Chapter 3 Practice Questions Introduction to Personality: Toward An Integration 7e 2
Chapter 3 – Practice Questions
1. A central aim of ______is to develop a comprehensive taxonomy of human attributes.
A. Psychoanalytic theorists
B. Social cognitive theorists
C. Phenomenological theorists
D. Object relations theorists
E. Trait theorists
2. Using scores on an extraversion measure, a psychologist ranks 5 people from most extraverted to least extraverted. This psychologists is treating extraversion as a(n):
A. Personality trait
B. Personality type
C. Secondary Attribute
D. Implicit theory
E. If…then… profile
3. Allport believed that ______traits are the most generalized and pervasive.
A. Central
B. Cardinal
C. Secondary
D. Common
E. Dynamic
4. Which of the following theorists tried to identify underlying source traits by using the technique of factor analysis?
A. Allport
B. Buss
C. Eysenck
D. Cattell
E. Jung
5. Eysenck postulated that ______and ______are two fundamental dimensions of personality.
A. Dominance …. agreeableness
B. Conscientiousness … extraversion
C. Extraversion … neuroticism
D. Sociability … intellect
E. Narcissism … dependence
6. Which of the following methodologies is a trait psychologist most likely to use?
A. Clinical interviews
B. Psychometric tests
C. Projective tests
D. Case studies
E. Experimental manipulations
7. Which of the following is NOT one of the “Big Five” dimensions of personality?
A. Conscientiousness
B. Openness to experience
C. Agreeableness
D. Neuroticism
E. Aggressiveness
8. Researchers have found that a person’s self-ratings on personality measures of “Big Five” traits can predict:
A. Ratings by friends and acquaintances who have been asked to describe the person
B. Aggregate measures of the person’s behavior over time and across situations
C. How the person will behave in a particular situation
D. A and B only
E. A, B, and C
Answers:
1. E
2. A
3. B
4. D
5. C
6. B
7. E
8. D