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Chapter 01: Personality: What It Is and Why You Should Care
1. We research theories of personality to:
a. establish one of them as superior among all.
b. describe their use for real-world problems.
c. show how personality theories are superior to any other theories.
d. generalize that all people are the same across cultures.
ANSWER: b
2. Which of the following is true about personality?
a. Personality is a characteristic exhibited by only a few people.
b. Personality can limit or expand the choices one has in life.
c. Personality is characterized by most psychologists as either terrific or terrible.
d. Personality remains constant in all circumstances.
ANSWER: b
3. Which of the following statements can be used to sum up personality?
a. Personality is how we perceive ourselves and also how others perceive us.
b. Personality shows that we are deterministic, mechanical, and do not change throughout our lives.
c. Personality is entirely the reflection of fantasies and past recollections of repressed memories.
d. Personality is entirely based on how we were treated during our childhood years.
ANSWER: a
4. Around 1500, the Latin word persona was used to refer to:
a. a person’s mechanistic behavior.
b. predictable and automatic responses.
c. a mask used by actors in a play.
d. a robe worn by noblemen.
ANSWER: c
5. Identify a false statement about an individual’s personality.
a. It can be stable and predictable.
b. It is generally resistant to sudden changes.
c. It is based on personal traits and behavior.
d. It is not unique to each person.
ANSWER: d
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6. The personality of an individual is:
a. completely based on self-perception.
b. unstable and unpredictable.
c. a unique cluster of characteristics.
d. determined at birth and stays unchanged.
ANSWER: c
7. Which of the following is false regarding people using social networking sites, such as Facebook?
a. They tend to portray an idealized self-image of themselves.
b. They feel they are able to express their true selves.
c. They have a tendency to present themselves as much more emotionally stable.
d. They tend to tell only the truth about themselves online.
ANSWER: d
8. Research that was conducted in diverse countries, such as the Netherlands, Serbia, Hong Kong, and Korea, suggests
that those who have a high level of social network use are:
a. more introverted than those who use it less.
b. less irritable than those who use it less.
c. less anxious than those who use it less.
d. more emotionally stable than those who use it less.
ANSWER: a
9. People high in openness, agreeableness, and experience seeking display intention to:
a. comment kindly and civilly on Facebook.
b. comment unkindly but civilly on Facebook.
c. comment kindly but uncivilly on Facebook.
d. comment unkindly and uncivilly on Facebook.
ANSWER: a
10. In the past, which type of people were more likely to be used in research on personality theory?
a. Asian women
b. Latinx men
c. White people
d. Black men
ANSWER: c
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11. Which of the following is true of the assumptions made by early personality theorists?
a. Personality theories were valid for all people, regardless of gender and race.
b. Siblings growing up together had highly identical personality types.
c. Social and environmental forces do not have any effect on shaping personality.
d. A person’s ethnic background largely influences their personality.
ANSWER: a
12. Girls and boys are usually reared according to:
a. the norms of the neighborhood where they were raised.
b. the explicit wishes of the grandparents.
c. books on parenting.
d. traditional gender stereotypes.
ANSWER: d
13. The research conducted by Barrett et al. (2000) suggests that:
a. men are more concerned with what people think of them than women do.
b. women exhibit greater emotional complexity than men.
c. women are more resistant to emotional disorders than men.
d. men are more likely to suffer from anxiety than women.
ANSWER: b
14. Which of the following statements is true of research on the effect of culture in shaping personality?
a. European Americans displayed a far greater number of negative emotions than did the Asian Americans.
b. Recent Chinese immigrants to Canada scored significantly higher in extraversion than those who have been
living for past ten or more years.
c. Brain wave activity in response to a particular visual stimulus has been found to be the same among people
from all cultures.
d. In general, people from Western cultures are more optimistic than people from Eastern cultures.
ANSWER: d
15. The concept of karma:
a. may be seen as a deterministic view of human nature by Buddhists.
b. emphasizes free choice and action.
c. encourages an active, rebellious personality type.
d. has shaped the beliefs of many Islamic communities.
ANSWER: a
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16. A person from a collectivist society is more likely to focus on:
a. group norms and values.
b. assertiveness.
c. competitiveness.
d. self-enhancement.
ANSWER: a
17. Identify a cultural difference between individualism and collectivism.
a. The levels of anxiety and depression have been found to be higher in collectivistic cultures than in the
individualistic ones.
b. Individualism has traditionally been encouraged in Asian cultures.
c. Collectivism has traditionally been encouraged in Western cultures.
d. The levels of anxiety and depression have been found to be lower in collectivistic cultures than in individualistic
ones.
ANSWER: d
18. A study on child-rearing practices in different cultures and their effects on personality concluded that:
a. in collectivist cultures, parental practices tend to be less authoritarian, restrictive, and controlling..
b. the effect child-rearing practices have on the development of personality is neutralized by the time an individual
reaches adolescence.
c. parents in individualistic cultures tended to be noncoercive, democratic, and permissive.
d. Chinese mothers living in Canada were found to be less authoritarian in raising their children than non-Chinese
mothers in Canada.
ANSWER: c
19. Which of the following is true of self-enhancement?
a. It is prevalent among Nordic cultures.
b. It is defined as the process of administering rewards or punishments to oneself.
c. It is defined as the tendency to promote oneself.
d. It is genetically induced and determined at birth.
ANSWER: c
20. Which of the following is a problem limiting the applicability of cross-cultural personality research?
a. Much less research has been conducted on personality in English-speaking countries than in Spanish-speaking
countries.
b. Much less research has been conducted on personality in African and South American nations.
c. The majority of the research on personality has been done on children and the aged in Latin America.
d. The majority of the research on personality conducted in the English-speaking countries has not been well-
documented until very recently.
ANSWER: b
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21. A limiting factor in the applicability of cross-cultural research of personality is that subjects:
a. demand exorbitantly high amounts of monetary compensation to participate in research studies.
b. easily conform to how a researcher wants them to respond.
c. are mostly American college students.
d. are mostly children and adolescents in treatment.
ANSWER: c
22. Which of the following is true of the principle of reliability that is used in personality assessment?
a. It involves the consistency of response to an assessment device.
b. It is an indicator of the validity of an assessment technique.
c. It is an assessment device measuring what it is expected to measure.
d. It involves selecting the most accurate score from a group of results.
ANSWER: a
23. Which question best clarifies the meaning of validity?
a. Has the test been taken by many people?
b. Does the student know what is on the test?
c. Does the test capture what it is intended to capture?
d. Are the results of the test consistent?
ANSWER: c
24. Which of the following approaches to personality assessment involves asking people to give an account of and answer
questions about their behavior and feelings in various situations?
a. Behavioral assessment procedures
b. Projective techniques
c. Experience sampling procedures
d. Self-report personality measures
ANSWER: d
25. The most widely used self-report personality test is the:
a. Rorschach Inkblot Technique.
b. Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory.
c. Myers-Briggs Type Indicator.
d. Thematic Apperception Test.
ANSWER: b
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26. In 1992, the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory-A (MMPI-A) was developed for use with:
a. adults.
b. adolescents.
c. children.
d. illiterates.
ANSWER: b
27. For which of the following is the MMPI appropriate?
a. For people who are pre-readers
b. For people with limited reading skills
c. For children
d. For adults with adequate reading skills
ANSWER: d
28. Self-report measures of personality are advantageous because:
a. they are designed to be taken by both children and adults.
b. they are designed for people of all ranges of reading skills.
c. they are designed in ways that can be administered online.
d. they are designed such that they are resistant to social desirability biases.
ANSWER: c
29. A main reason for administering an online self-report inventory is that:
a. it is less expensive and time intensive.
b. the scoring is highly subjective.
c. it allows test-takers to change answers already given.
d. the method is easily understood by children.
ANSWER: a
30. Projective techniques are used to assess personality by:
a. having individuals associate innermost needs, fears, and values onto an ambiguous stimulus.
b. observing the behavior of individuals in a given situation.
c. talking to individuals being evaluated and asking relevant questions about problems that led them to seek
psychological help.
d. recording individuals’ thoughts and providing samples over a period of time.
ANSWER: a
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31. A projective test of personality:
a. clearly describes an objective assessment of personality.
b. has low inter-scorer reliability and validity.
c. was initially based on the behavioral theory of personality.
d. is consistent across circumstances and individuals taking the test.
ANSWER: b
32. In research for the Rorschach, conclusions on validity and reliability are:
a. mixed.
b. highly consistent.
c. absolute.
d. largely positive.
ANSWER: a
33. The Thematic Apperception Test (TAT) is a projective technique that:
a. is a highly valid and reliable test.
b. is highly objective and easy to interpret.
c. consists of 19 ambiguous pictures and 1 blank card.
d. consists of multiple-choice and true–false questions.
ANSWER: c
34. The Rorschach Inkblot Technique:
a. was an instant success at the time of its publication.
b. is used to objectively interpret the values, needs, and fears of a person.
c. can be used with greater confidence than the MMPI for diverse cultural groups.
d. is rated lower than the MMPI in validity research.
ANSWER: d
35. The Thematic Apperception Test was developed by:
a. Sigmund Freud.
b. Morgan and Murray.
c. Carl Jung.
d. John Watson.
ANSWER: b
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36. In experience-sampling assessments:
a. response words are analyzed for their commonplace or unusual nature.
b. subjects are asked relevant questions about the problems that led them to seek psychological help.
c. subjects are presumed to project personal needs, fears, and values onto their interpretation or
TOFP.SCMA.25.1.1 Define personality in two sentences. of an ambiguous stimulus.
d. people record their experiences—thoughts, feelings, behaviors, and the social environment and context—at
certain time intervals to provide a sample over a period of time.
ANSWER: d
37. In the context of assessment of personality, identify a false statement about research on gender and ethnic issues.
a. Hispanic and Latina/o Americans tend to be more satisfied with mental health personnel who understand their
culture.
b. Women tend to score lower than men on tests measuring assertiveness.
c. Women are more often diagnosed with depression than are men.
d. Black and White college students have similar measures of paranoia.
ANSWER: d
38. In the context of the effect of ethnicity on personality assessment, Asian Americans:
a. tend to score low on collectivism.
b. tend to underutilize mental health treatment services.
c. tend to avoid self-effacement and view it negatively.
d. tend to score low on self-criticism.
ANSWER: b
39. In the context of the ethnic issues that affect personality assessment, Dingfelder (2005) found that Latina/o people
tend to:
a. constantly seek therapy compared to White people and other ethnic groups.
b. follow up on their first visit by returning for additional sessions about 50 percent of the time.
c. avoid doctors who are from the same ethnic and racial background as themselves.
d. keep their distress hidden and only reveal this distress to close family members.
ANSWER: b
40. Which of the following statements characterizes the Hispanic population with respect to personality assessment?
a. Hispanic people tend to seek help for their mental condition from personnel of other ethnicities in order to avoid
potential embarrassment in their own community.
b. Hispanic people are highly individualistic and tend to score high on self-enhancement.
c. Compared to Black people, Hispanic people score considerably higher on suspicion and lack of trust in other
people.
d. Hispanic adolescents are typically treated by clinicians for shorter periods of time than non-Hispanic White
adolescents.
ANSWER: d
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A sample of selected pages has been provided for preview.
All available appendices and Excel files (if included in the original resources) are
provided.
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,Name: Class: Date:
Chapter 01: Personality: What It Is and Why You Should Care
1. We research theories of personality to:
a. establish one of them as superior among all.
b. describe their use for real-world problems.
c. show how personality theories are superior to any other theories.
d. generalize that all people are the same across cultures.
ANSWER: b
2. Which of the following is true about personality?
a. Personality is a characteristic exhibited by only a few people.
b. Personality can limit or expand the choices one has in life.
c. Personality is characterized by most psychologists as either terrific or terrible.
d. Personality remains constant in all circumstances.
ANSWER: b
3. Which of the following statements can be used to sum up personality?
a. Personality is how we perceive ourselves and also how others perceive us.
b. Personality shows that we are deterministic, mechanical, and do not change throughout our lives.
c. Personality is entirely the reflection of fantasies and past recollections of repressed memories.
d. Personality is entirely based on how we were treated during our childhood years.
ANSWER: a
4. Around 1500, the Latin word persona was used to refer to:
a. a person’s mechanistic behavior.
b. predictable and automatic responses.
c. a mask used by actors in a play.
d. a robe worn by noblemen.
ANSWER: c
5. Identify a false statement about an individual’s personality.
a. It can be stable and predictable.
b. It is generally resistant to sudden changes.
c. It is based on personal traits and behavior.
d. It is not unique to each person.
ANSWER: d
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6. The personality of an individual is:
a. completely based on self-perception.
b. unstable and unpredictable.
c. a unique cluster of characteristics.
d. determined at birth and stays unchanged.
ANSWER: c
7. Which of the following is false regarding people using social networking sites, such as Facebook?
a. They tend to portray an idealized self-image of themselves.
b. They feel they are able to express their true selves.
c. They have a tendency to present themselves as much more emotionally stable.
d. They tend to tell only the truth about themselves online.
ANSWER: d
8. Research that was conducted in diverse countries, such as the Netherlands, Serbia, Hong Kong, and Korea, suggests
that those who have a high level of social network use are:
a. more introverted than those who use it less.
b. less irritable than those who use it less.
c. less anxious than those who use it less.
d. more emotionally stable than those who use it less.
ANSWER: a
9. People high in openness, agreeableness, and experience seeking display intention to:
a. comment kindly and civilly on Facebook.
b. comment unkindly but civilly on Facebook.
c. comment kindly but uncivilly on Facebook.
d. comment unkindly and uncivilly on Facebook.
ANSWER: a
10. In the past, which type of people were more likely to be used in research on personality theory?
a. Asian women
b. Latinx men
c. White people
d. Black men
ANSWER: c
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11. Which of the following is true of the assumptions made by early personality theorists?
a. Personality theories were valid for all people, regardless of gender and race.
b. Siblings growing up together had highly identical personality types.
c. Social and environmental forces do not have any effect on shaping personality.
d. A person’s ethnic background largely influences their personality.
ANSWER: a
12. Girls and boys are usually reared according to:
a. the norms of the neighborhood where they were raised.
b. the explicit wishes of the grandparents.
c. books on parenting.
d. traditional gender stereotypes.
ANSWER: d
13. The research conducted by Barrett et al. (2000) suggests that:
a. men are more concerned with what people think of them than women do.
b. women exhibit greater emotional complexity than men.
c. women are more resistant to emotional disorders than men.
d. men are more likely to suffer from anxiety than women.
ANSWER: b
14. Which of the following statements is true of research on the effect of culture in shaping personality?
a. European Americans displayed a far greater number of negative emotions than did the Asian Americans.
b. Recent Chinese immigrants to Canada scored significantly higher in extraversion than those who have been
living for past ten or more years.
c. Brain wave activity in response to a particular visual stimulus has been found to be the same among people
from all cultures.
d. In general, people from Western cultures are more optimistic than people from Eastern cultures.
ANSWER: d
15. The concept of karma:
a. may be seen as a deterministic view of human nature by Buddhists.
b. emphasizes free choice and action.
c. encourages an active, rebellious personality type.
d. has shaped the beliefs of many Islamic communities.
ANSWER: a
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16. A person from a collectivist society is more likely to focus on:
a. group norms and values.
b. assertiveness.
c. competitiveness.
d. self-enhancement.
ANSWER: a
17. Identify a cultural difference between individualism and collectivism.
a. The levels of anxiety and depression have been found to be higher in collectivistic cultures than in the
individualistic ones.
b. Individualism has traditionally been encouraged in Asian cultures.
c. Collectivism has traditionally been encouraged in Western cultures.
d. The levels of anxiety and depression have been found to be lower in collectivistic cultures than in individualistic
ones.
ANSWER: d
18. A study on child-rearing practices in different cultures and their effects on personality concluded that:
a. in collectivist cultures, parental practices tend to be less authoritarian, restrictive, and controlling..
b. the effect child-rearing practices have on the development of personality is neutralized by the time an individual
reaches adolescence.
c. parents in individualistic cultures tended to be noncoercive, democratic, and permissive.
d. Chinese mothers living in Canada were found to be less authoritarian in raising their children than non-Chinese
mothers in Canada.
ANSWER: c
19. Which of the following is true of self-enhancement?
a. It is prevalent among Nordic cultures.
b. It is defined as the process of administering rewards or punishments to oneself.
c. It is defined as the tendency to promote oneself.
d. It is genetically induced and determined at birth.
ANSWER: c
20. Which of the following is a problem limiting the applicability of cross-cultural personality research?
a. Much less research has been conducted on personality in English-speaking countries than in Spanish-speaking
countries.
b. Much less research has been conducted on personality in African and South American nations.
c. The majority of the research on personality has been done on children and the aged in Latin America.
d. The majority of the research on personality conducted in the English-speaking countries has not been well-
documented until very recently.
ANSWER: b
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21. A limiting factor in the applicability of cross-cultural research of personality is that subjects:
a. demand exorbitantly high amounts of monetary compensation to participate in research studies.
b. easily conform to how a researcher wants them to respond.
c. are mostly American college students.
d. are mostly children and adolescents in treatment.
ANSWER: c
22. Which of the following is true of the principle of reliability that is used in personality assessment?
a. It involves the consistency of response to an assessment device.
b. It is an indicator of the validity of an assessment technique.
c. It is an assessment device measuring what it is expected to measure.
d. It involves selecting the most accurate score from a group of results.
ANSWER: a
23. Which question best clarifies the meaning of validity?
a. Has the test been taken by many people?
b. Does the student know what is on the test?
c. Does the test capture what it is intended to capture?
d. Are the results of the test consistent?
ANSWER: c
24. Which of the following approaches to personality assessment involves asking people to give an account of and answer
questions about their behavior and feelings in various situations?
a. Behavioral assessment procedures
b. Projective techniques
c. Experience sampling procedures
d. Self-report personality measures
ANSWER: d
25. The most widely used self-report personality test is the:
a. Rorschach Inkblot Technique.
b. Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory.
c. Myers-Briggs Type Indicator.
d. Thematic Apperception Test.
ANSWER: b
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26. In 1992, the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory-A (MMPI-A) was developed for use with:
a. adults.
b. adolescents.
c. children.
d. illiterates.
ANSWER: b
27. For which of the following is the MMPI appropriate?
a. For people who are pre-readers
b. For people with limited reading skills
c. For children
d. For adults with adequate reading skills
ANSWER: d
28. Self-report measures of personality are advantageous because:
a. they are designed to be taken by both children and adults.
b. they are designed for people of all ranges of reading skills.
c. they are designed in ways that can be administered online.
d. they are designed such that they are resistant to social desirability biases.
ANSWER: c
29. A main reason for administering an online self-report inventory is that:
a. it is less expensive and time intensive.
b. the scoring is highly subjective.
c. it allows test-takers to change answers already given.
d. the method is easily understood by children.
ANSWER: a
30. Projective techniques are used to assess personality by:
a. having individuals associate innermost needs, fears, and values onto an ambiguous stimulus.
b. observing the behavior of individuals in a given situation.
c. talking to individuals being evaluated and asking relevant questions about problems that led them to seek
psychological help.
d. recording individuals’ thoughts and providing samples over a period of time.
ANSWER: a
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31. A projective test of personality:
a. clearly describes an objective assessment of personality.
b. has low inter-scorer reliability and validity.
c. was initially based on the behavioral theory of personality.
d. is consistent across circumstances and individuals taking the test.
ANSWER: b
32. In research for the Rorschach, conclusions on validity and reliability are:
a. mixed.
b. highly consistent.
c. absolute.
d. largely positive.
ANSWER: a
33. The Thematic Apperception Test (TAT) is a projective technique that:
a. is a highly valid and reliable test.
b. is highly objective and easy to interpret.
c. consists of 19 ambiguous pictures and 1 blank card.
d. consists of multiple-choice and true–false questions.
ANSWER: c
34. The Rorschach Inkblot Technique:
a. was an instant success at the time of its publication.
b. is used to objectively interpret the values, needs, and fears of a person.
c. can be used with greater confidence than the MMPI for diverse cultural groups.
d. is rated lower than the MMPI in validity research.
ANSWER: d
35. The Thematic Apperception Test was developed by:
a. Sigmund Freud.
b. Morgan and Murray.
c. Carl Jung.
d. John Watson.
ANSWER: b
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Chapter 01: Personality: What It Is and Why You Should Care
36. In experience-sampling assessments:
a. response words are analyzed for their commonplace or unusual nature.
b. subjects are asked relevant questions about the problems that led them to seek psychological help.
c. subjects are presumed to project personal needs, fears, and values onto their interpretation or
TOFP.SCMA.25.1.1 Define personality in two sentences. of an ambiguous stimulus.
d. people record their experiences—thoughts, feelings, behaviors, and the social environment and context—at
certain time intervals to provide a sample over a period of time.
ANSWER: d
37. In the context of assessment of personality, identify a false statement about research on gender and ethnic issues.
a. Hispanic and Latina/o Americans tend to be more satisfied with mental health personnel who understand their
culture.
b. Women tend to score lower than men on tests measuring assertiveness.
c. Women are more often diagnosed with depression than are men.
d. Black and White college students have similar measures of paranoia.
ANSWER: d
38. In the context of the effect of ethnicity on personality assessment, Asian Americans:
a. tend to score low on collectivism.
b. tend to underutilize mental health treatment services.
c. tend to avoid self-effacement and view it negatively.
d. tend to score low on self-criticism.
ANSWER: b
39. In the context of the ethnic issues that affect personality assessment, Dingfelder (2005) found that Latina/o people
tend to:
a. constantly seek therapy compared to White people and other ethnic groups.
b. follow up on their first visit by returning for additional sessions about 50 percent of the time.
c. avoid doctors who are from the same ethnic and racial background as themselves.
d. keep their distress hidden and only reveal this distress to close family members.
ANSWER: b
40. Which of the following statements characterizes the Hispanic population with respect to personality assessment?
a. Hispanic people tend to seek help for their mental condition from personnel of other ethnicities in order to avoid
potential embarrassment in their own community.
b. Hispanic people are highly individualistic and tend to score high on self-enhancement.
c. Compared to Black people, Hispanic people score considerably higher on suspicion and lack of trust in other
people.
d. Hispanic adolescents are typically treated by clinicians for shorter periods of time than non-Hispanic White
adolescents.
ANSWER: d
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