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How might personality psychology best be denied

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E. Scienfitic study of what it means to be a person

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Which of these questions does personality psychology ask?

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E. ALL OF THESE BITCH

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Which of the following is an accurate way of assessing personality?

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E. NA NONE OF THESE

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Of the following, which is NOT a source of personality theory?

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D. conduction

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Which of the following would be an inductive approach to the study of personality?

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D. After observing people at a party, you decide that extroverts enjoy parties more than introverts do. (um duh?)

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Statistics are useful to personality psychologists

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E. for of all of these reasons

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Of the eight perspectives discussed in your text, which of the following is NOT true?

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D. Very few of the perspectives are still regarded as useful

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Roots of personality psychology can be traced to the theater because

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A. actors ofter portray "characters" or easily recognizable types of people

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An early supporter of psychological testing (and where much testing is still conducted was

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D. The US armed forces

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In the 19th century, an important individual in the origin of personality psychology was

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C. Darwin (I KNEW THIS ONE??)

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Which of the following most emphasized the importance of life-span, longitudinal study of personality?

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D. Murray

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The Gestalt tradition emphasized the idea that

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A. The whole is greater than the sum of its parts"

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If you read a new "finding" in the newspaper one morning but notice that only Caucasian subjects from Seattle were used in the experiment you might not give a lot of credibility to the study. This would be because of possible _____ limitations

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B. Generalizability

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Advances in the field of biological science

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E. have helped researchers to think more clearly about what personality is

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Gestalt psychologists hold a fundamental belief that

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D. people are more than the sum of their parts

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The Barnum effect refers to the tendency to

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E. believe vague generalities about one's own personalitly

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A nonmothetic approach to personality

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C. seeks to formulate general laws

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If you read your horoscope in the morning newspaper and feel strongly that it is a personal message about how to conduct your day, you may be experiencing the

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A. Barnum effect (or your just crazy as f**k)

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Nonmotheitc approach to personality

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C. seeks to formulate general laws I did this twice!! gotcha!!

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If we ask everyone in the class to describe the personalities of everyone else they know in the class, and then use these data to form a theory about the personality of college students, we are using

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induction

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Which of the following does NOT describe a good theory?

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D. tautological

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The roots of modern personality psychology can be traced to developments in the 19th century biological sciences based on the work of

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C. C. Darwin Damn darwin is everywhere

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Personality psychology that is focused on the study of individual cases is termed

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E. idiographic

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When personality psychology uses the term "ego forces", this refers to

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B. the sense of identity or self

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A correlation coefficient is a mathematical index of

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B. the sense of identity or self

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When two personality measures are negatively correlated, this indicates

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E. NONE OF THESE

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A high, negative correlation between sleep deprivation and anxiety would indicate that

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C. The more sleep deprived a person is, the less likely he/she is to be anxious

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The term temperament, as used in personality psychology refers to

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A. an individual's characteristic emotional and motivational nature

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The notion that there are personality "types," clusters of characteristics that tend to occur together

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A. can be traced back to the ancient Greeks, at least.

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Darwin's evolutionary theory influenced the development of the field of personality psychology through

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C. The idea that people are subject to the laws of nature, like other animals.

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Margaret Mead's view on the role of culture in personality was influenced by her findings from several different cultures that

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D. In some cultures, both the males and the females had the characteristics that our culture identifies are "masculine" ^^^so interesting

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With respect to unconscious forces, personality psychology as a field

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D. struggles to understand how and to what extent unconscious forces play a role in human behavior

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An approach to personality would be called nomothetic if

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C. it seeks to formulate laws that hold across individuals

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If a theory is classified as "falsifiable,"this means that the theory

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D. could be shown to be false by some type(s) of data

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Research suggests that pets

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B. have personalities that different people may agree on. ^^^wait wut

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What is the definition of the inductive approach?

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A. Reasoning from data obtained by observation to theory

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An early representation of personality psychology can be traced back to what?

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B. Theater LOL THEATER MINOR RMMBER (YOU)

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Which of the following statements is true of the unconscious?

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D. Personality psychology struggles to understand how and to what extent the unconscious plays a role in behavior

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According to Allport, what is the method by which personality should be studied?

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B. Idiographic

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In personality psychology, why are males and females often studied as separate groups?

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A. To find and understand differences in personality between males and females

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Which term applies to the tendency to believe that vague generalities are a good description of one's personality?

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E. The Barnum effect

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