Personality Psychology: Domains of Knowledge
About Human Nature 3rd Edition
By Randy J. Larsen, David M. Buss, David B. King
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Chapter 1
Student name:
MULTIPLE CHOICE - Choose the one alternative that best completes the
statement or answers the question.
1) Features of personality that differentiate one person from another usually take
the form of
in language.
A) differential pronouns
B) trait-descriptive adjectives
C) action-descriptive verbs
D) trait-differentiating adverbs
2) If I describe Juan as "possessive" or Anita as "friendly," I am employing the use
of
A) trait-descriptive adjectives.
B) inner psychological states.
C) strategies to attain goals.
D) inner qualities of personality.
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3) How many trait-descriptive adjectives are there in the English language?
A) More than 500
B) More than 1,800
C) More than 5,000
D) Nearly 20,000
4) Psychologists have found it difficult to define personality because
A) psychologists are not smart enough to determine the boundaries of
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human personality.
B) personality has a commonsense definition that psychologists find hard to
falsify.
C) the idea of studying human personality is a rather new concept in
psychology.
D) any definition of personality needs to be sufficiently comprehensive
to include a multitude of concepts.
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5) Research on personality traits asks all of these questions EXCEPT
A) how many fundamental personality traits there are.
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, B) how personality traits are organized.
C) where personality traits come from.
D) which cues cause behaviour in a situation.
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6) Philippe walks the same path home after work every day at the same time.
To state that he will most likely take the same route at the same time next
Wednesday is using the
nature of personality traits.
A) descriptive
B) explanatory
C) predictive
D) individualistic
7) Mike makes several social errors at a party. He calls the host by the wrong
name, spills his red wine on the carpet, and insults the guest of honour. A
researcher labels Mike's behaviour as "socially unskilled." This labelling of
Mike's behaviour utilizes the research
approach to personality traits.
A) explanatory
B) descriptive
C) intuitive
D) presumptive
8) Traits define the tendencies of an individual person.
A) central
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B) average
C) overt
D) outlying
9) A talkative person will
A) always talk more than a quiet person.
B) never shut up.
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C) talk more than a quiet person in theaters.
D) talk more, on average, than a quiet person.
10) To say that someone will tend to display a trait with regularity is to say that
the person has a(n)
A) average tendency.
B) obsessive-compulsive disorder.
C) adaptation.
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D) social-cognitive approach.
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