LATEST IICRS FSRT FINAL EXAM STUDY GUIDE VERSION: AN A+
DISCUSSION.
Which of the following statements is true about psychologists who view traits as
internal dispositions?
They believe that traits can lie dormant in the sense that the capacities remain present
even when particular behaviors are not actually expressed.
Robert conducts research to study the trait of empathy using the act frequency
approach. Each participant is asked to list the specific acts or behaviors that they
are most likely to associate with highly empathetic people. Robert collects a pool
of 251 empathetic acts. This scenario exemplifies the act _____ procedure of the
act frequency approach.
Nomination
Which of the following concepts indicates that if an attribute has not merely one
or two trait adjectives to describe it but rather many words, then it is a more
important dimension of individual difference?
Synonym frequency
Which of the following statements is true about factor analysis?
It essentially identifies clusters of personality items that covary but tend to deviate from
other groups of items
Which of the following taxonomies was developed based on the traits that were
believed to be highly heritable and had a likely psychophysiological foundation?
Eysenck's personality taxonomy
Juanita likes to spend more time alone. She prefers to lead a predictable and well-
organized life. According to Hans Eysenck's personality taxonomy, Juanita would
most likely score high on the trait of:
Introversion
In Hans Eysenck's hierarchical model, each super-trait is at:
the top of the hierarchy
In the context of the circumplex taxonomies of personality, which of the following
refers to what people do to and with each other?
, Interpersonal traits
Which of the following is NOT a clear advantage of the Wiggins circumplex model
of personality?
The relationships between traits can be traced to biologically based traits
Which of the following is a problem with the five-factor model?
There is uncertainty about the content, naming, and replicability of the fifth factor
When people maintain their relative positions in a group over time, the group
displays high:
Rank order stability
A case study of Mahatma Gandhi best illustrates:
How personality can remain stable over time
According to Dan Olweus (1979), children classified as bullies in Grade 6 were
more likely to:
Become criminals in adulthood
In the context of mean level stability and change in adulthood, according to
Robins et al. (2001), students show ____ in neuroticism from freshman to senior
years in college.
A decrease
In the context of changes in self-esteem from adolescence to adulthood, as a
whole, ____ tend to show an increasing gap between their current self-
conceptions and their ideal selves and ____ tend to show a smaller discrepancy
between their rela and ideal selves over the same time period.
Females; males
According to Michael Kernis et al. (1991), self-esteem level is related to:
Depression
Kara is extremely sensitive to the feedback. She most likely has a:
High level of self-esteem variability
In a longitudinal study of women from Mills College in the San Francisco bay area
conducted by Helson and Wink (1992), it was found that high scorers on the
femininity scale tend to:
Send cards to friends on holidays
DISCUSSION.
Which of the following statements is true about psychologists who view traits as
internal dispositions?
They believe that traits can lie dormant in the sense that the capacities remain present
even when particular behaviors are not actually expressed.
Robert conducts research to study the trait of empathy using the act frequency
approach. Each participant is asked to list the specific acts or behaviors that they
are most likely to associate with highly empathetic people. Robert collects a pool
of 251 empathetic acts. This scenario exemplifies the act _____ procedure of the
act frequency approach.
Nomination
Which of the following concepts indicates that if an attribute has not merely one
or two trait adjectives to describe it but rather many words, then it is a more
important dimension of individual difference?
Synonym frequency
Which of the following statements is true about factor analysis?
It essentially identifies clusters of personality items that covary but tend to deviate from
other groups of items
Which of the following taxonomies was developed based on the traits that were
believed to be highly heritable and had a likely psychophysiological foundation?
Eysenck's personality taxonomy
Juanita likes to spend more time alone. She prefers to lead a predictable and well-
organized life. According to Hans Eysenck's personality taxonomy, Juanita would
most likely score high on the trait of:
Introversion
In Hans Eysenck's hierarchical model, each super-trait is at:
the top of the hierarchy
In the context of the circumplex taxonomies of personality, which of the following
refers to what people do to and with each other?
, Interpersonal traits
Which of the following is NOT a clear advantage of the Wiggins circumplex model
of personality?
The relationships between traits can be traced to biologically based traits
Which of the following is a problem with the five-factor model?
There is uncertainty about the content, naming, and replicability of the fifth factor
When people maintain their relative positions in a group over time, the group
displays high:
Rank order stability
A case study of Mahatma Gandhi best illustrates:
How personality can remain stable over time
According to Dan Olweus (1979), children classified as bullies in Grade 6 were
more likely to:
Become criminals in adulthood
In the context of mean level stability and change in adulthood, according to
Robins et al. (2001), students show ____ in neuroticism from freshman to senior
years in college.
A decrease
In the context of changes in self-esteem from adolescence to adulthood, as a
whole, ____ tend to show an increasing gap between their current self-
conceptions and their ideal selves and ____ tend to show a smaller discrepancy
between their rela and ideal selves over the same time period.
Females; males
According to Michael Kernis et al. (1991), self-esteem level is related to:
Depression
Kara is extremely sensitive to the feedback. She most likely has a:
High level of self-esteem variability
In a longitudinal study of women from Mills College in the San Francisco bay area
conducted by Helson and Wink (1992), it was found that high scorers on the
femininity scale tend to:
Send cards to friends on holidays
