Introduction to Personality Psychology Practice Exam
Course Introduction
Introduction to Personality Psychology offers students a comprehensive overview of the scientific study of personality, exploring major theories, foundational concepts, and current research in the field. The course examines how individual differences in personality develop, persist, and influence behavior across the lifespan, considering biological, psychological, and social factors. Students will engage with classic and contemporary perspectives, including psychoanalytic, trait, humanistic, and social-cognitive approaches. Through the analysis of case studies and empirical research, students will learn to evaluate different models of personality, understand methods for assessing personality, and consider applications in clinical, organizational, and everyday contexts.
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The Person An Introduction to the Science of Personality Psychology 5th Edition by
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Dan P. McAdams
Chapter 1: Studying the Person
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Q1) As opposed to nomothetic research, idiographic studies in personality
A) Seek to test hypotheses generated by theories
B) Attempt to examine variables as they naturally co-occur
C) Focus attention on the details of a single case
D) Use grand theories to interpret results
Answer: C
Q2) Allport's concept of proprium involved
A) Personality traits that explain behavior
B) All aspects of personality that create psychological unity
C) Motivation constructs that conflict with each other
D) All social and internal factors that explain personality
Answer: B
Q3) If a particular finding in a study is statistically significant "at the .05 level," then the chances are about 5% that the finding is
A) False
B) True
C) Meaningful
D) Due to chance
Answer: D
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Chapter 2: Evolution and Human Nature
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Q1) Most scientists assume that for most of our evolutionary history human beings lived as
A) Farmers
B) Hunters and gatherers
C) Fishermen
D) Traders
Answer: B
Q2) What is the evolutionary function of attachment according to Bowlby?
A) Cognitive development in the infant
B) Protection of the infant from predators
C) Proper nutritional balance
D) Group solidarity through intimate bonds
Answer: B
Q3) Preschool children who were securely attached at age 1 show all of the following characteristics except
A) Higher levels of intelligence
B) Higher levels of popularity
C) Higher levels of dominance
D) Better social competence
Answer: A
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Chapter 3: Social Learning and Culture
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Q1) People who score high on Bicultural Identity Integration tend to see themselves as
A) Conflicted about the two cultural identities in their lives
B) Able to alternate between two different identities
C) Able to combine their two cultural identities into one coherent identity
D) Committed to one of their two cultural identities and dismissive of the other
Answer: C
Q2) Which of the following general parenting styles involves high demands for responsible behavior in children as well as high responsiveness to children's points of view?
A) Authoritative
B) Aurthoritarian
C) Indulgent-permissive
D) Neglecting
Answer: A
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Chapter 4: Personality Traits: Fundamental Concepts and Issues
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Q1) Compared to those scoring lower, people scoring high on the trait of narcissism tend to
A) Use more first-person, singular pronouns "I," "me") in speech
B) Show lower levels of self-esteem
C) To score lower on traits of intelligence
D) Have more successful romantic relationships
Q2) A pupil of Aristotle in ancient Greece, Theophrastus, provided an early trait taxonomy that
A) Relied on mathematical models to delineate the basic traits in human life
B) Provided humorous character sketches of people with particular traits
C) Connected basic traits to fluids in the body
D) Derived many variations in personality from one basic ideal type
Q3) Which of the following is not a criterion of a good trait measure?
A) High utility
B) High economy
C) High social desirability
D) High communicability
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Chapter 5: Five Basic Traits in the Brain and in Behavior
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Q1) Which of the following behaviors has not been positively associated with extraversion in research?
A) Higher levels of sexual activity
B) Interest in sales, marketing, and other people-oriented professions
C) Talking more and talking sooner in conversations
D) Higher levels of helping behaviors and providing assistance to others
Q2) Which of the following characteristics is not associated with the Big Five trait of conscientiousness C)?
A) Responsibility
B) Achievement orientation
C) Empathy
D) Persistence
Q3) Which of the following stress areas has been shown to be most strongly associated with high neuroticism?
A) Work overload
B) Time urgency
C) Arguments
D) Failures in competition
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Environments, and Time
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Q1) Which of the following tends to occur regarding differential continuity of traits over the human lifespan?
A) Differential continuity of traits tends to decrease as the length of time between measurement intervals increases
B) Differential continuity of traits tends to increase as measurement intervals increase
C) Differential continuity of traits tends to decrease later in the lifespan
D) Differential continuity of traits tends to be equally high regardless of testing intervals
Q2) Research on stress reactivity analogizes different children to dandelions and orchids. Which of the following statements captures what this line of research suggests?
A) Orchids show a higher sensitivity to context
B) Dandelions show stronger and more consistent behavior patterns
C) Orchids show a lower sensitivity to context
D) Dandelions show weaker and less consistent behavior patterns
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Chapter 7: Motives and Goals: What Do We Want in Life
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Q1) According to self-determination theory, behaviors that enhance organismic integration are those that
A) Fulfill basic needs of autonomy, competence, and relatedness
B) Are consistent with the values that society espouses
C) Are congruent with a person's self-chosen goals and aspirations
D) produce experiences of flow
Q2) Why might we classify motives and goals as "characteristic adaptations" instead of "dispositional traits?"
A) Because motives and goals predict both emotions and behavior, whereas traits predict only behavior
B) Because motives and goals are contextualized in time
C) Because motives and goals are unconscious
D) Because motives and goals are self-chosen whereas traits are outside of our control
Q3) Repression means to
A) Make something unconscious
B) Consciously hold back threatening information
C) Hurt another person or damage the environment
D) Defend against anxiety
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Chapter 8: Self and Other: Social-Cognitive Aspects of Personality
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Q1) Relational schemas are
A) Internalized models of important interpersonal relationships
B) Bipolar constructs regarding good vs. bad people in one's life
C) Rules about how to interact with others in social groups
D) Sex-role stereotypes that are primed in situations in which gender norms are ambiguous
Q2) Which of the following generalizations about cognitive style is not true?
A) Women are more field-dependent than men
B) Children are more field-dependent than adults
C) Migratory tribes are more field-dependent than agricultural societies
D) Field dependence-independence is unrelated to academic achievement
Q3) Adherents to strict, fundamentalist forms of religion tend to show all of the following except
A) Emotion-focused coping strategies
B) Distrust of people with dissimilar religious views
C) Optimism
D) Marital satisfaction
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Chapter 9: Developmental Stages and Tasks
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Q1) In Loevinger's theory of development, the ego of late childhood and early adolescence may best be described as
A) Conformist
B) Impulsive
C) Conscientious
D) Interindividual
Q2) Psychological disorders for people high in ego development tend to take the form of
A) Internalizing disorders like depression
B) Externalzing disorders like sociopathy
C) Neurotic disorders like hysteria
D) Psychotic disorders like schizophrenia
Q3) According to Erikson, 4- and 5-year-old children show marked gender differences in many areas of play, such that boys tend to adopt a more mode whereas girls are more
A) Powerful, intimate
B) Phallic, anal
C) Independent, social
D) Intrusive, inclusive
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Chapter 10: Life Scripts, Life Stories
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Q1) Research on disclosing traumatic events in one's life shows that
A) The disclosure is emotionally painful but leads to long-term health benefits
B) People feel good immediately after the disclosure but no long-term benefits can be discerned
C) People who disclose trauma to a good friend tend to be unable to disclose to a stranger
D) Disclosure has benefits only when a person believes that benefits will occur
Q2) At what age does an autobiographical self emerge?
A) 6 months
B) 2 years
C) 7 years
D) Early adolescence
Q3) Research on self-defining memories suggests that adolescents and young adults
A) Tend to share accounts of especially personal memories with others shortly after the events occur
B) Rarely share accounts of personal memories with parents
C) Tend to share accounts of especially personal memories only after they have established close relationships with the people to whom the accounts are told
D) Repress many traumatic events
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Chapter 11: Interpreting Peoples Stories: From Freud to Today
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Q1) Which of the following archetypes in Jung's theory of life stories and myths embodies the wild and bestial aspects of human nature?
A) Anima
B) Shadow
C) Persona
D) Trickster
Q2) Adler's individual psychology emphasizes all of the following themes except
A) Unconscious determinants of behavior
B) Creating the self
C) Life as narrative
D) Social determinants of behavior
Q3) In Jungian psychology, individuation involves all of the following except
A) The maturation of the self
B) Exploration of the unconscious
C) Integration of opposites
D) The triumph of the ego
Q4) What does it mean to suggest, as Freud does, that all behavior and experience may be seen as similar to a "text" and a "treaty?" What are the implications of this view for understanding persons?
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Chapter 12: Writing Stories of Lives: Biography and the Life Course
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Q1) In Murray's personology, a pattern of related needs and press plural), derived from infantile experience, which organizes or gives meaning to a large portion of an individual's life, is called a
A) Thema
B) Unity-thema
C) Durance
D) Serial
Q2) According to a life course perspective, people move through developmental time with a particular cohort of friends, family members, associates, and so forth. This phenomenon is called
A) Social timing
B) Serendipity
C) Social convoy
D) Generative integration
Q3) For the most part, midlife is defined by
A) Biological changes
B) Changes in self-esteem
C) Societal expectations
D) Political and religious institutions
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