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Personality (PPP2014) questions: 4

Question 1 of 46

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Freud believed that two motives are fundamental to personality: The first is often called ___________, which impels toward life; the other is called ____________ and impels toward death

Select one of the following:

  • Libido; Thanatos

  • Thanatos; Libido

  • Sexual energy; war

  • Hunger; apathy

Explanation

Question 2 of 46

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Tom and Sally have been dating for two years. Sally breaks up with Tom because he cheated on her with Betty. Sally tells her friend Kelly about Tom, but she tells her without showing any emotion. Tom continues to call Sally and treat her as he did when they were going out. Betty, who did not know about Sally, tells Tom that she is glad that he feels guilty for hurting Sally. She also tells him that it will take a long time to get over the guilt.

Tom is using ___________ as a defense mechanism.

Select one of the following:

  • Repression

  • Denial

  • Projection

  • Isolation

Explanation

Question 3 of 46

1

What name did Freud give to his model of the mind which consisted of Id, Ego and Superego?

Select one of the following:

  • Structural model

  • Genetic model

  • Topographical model

  • Unconscious model

Explanation

Question 4 of 46

1

Which aspect of the family did Adler believe may play a significant role in personality development?

Select one of the following:

  • Age of parents when child was first born

  • Gender of siblings

  • Birth order

  • Size of extended family

Explanation

Question 5 of 46

1

According to Adler’s birth order theory, second-born children in the family are likely to be

Select one of the following:

  • Very competitive

  • Very independent

  • Very pampered

  • Very high achievers

Explanation

Question 6 of 46

1

Karen Horney called parental mistreatment ___, as she believed that parental behavior that does not meet the child’s fundamental need for safety was highly damaging

Select one of the following:

  • Abuse

  • Basic evil

  • Thanatos

  • Eros

Explanation

Question 7 of 46

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The purpose of                                   is to help individuals meet the fundamental desire for continued personal growth and self-enhancement

Select one of the following:

  • Inner directiveness

  • Cognitive centering

  • Self actualization

  • Mental discipline

Explanation

Question 8 of 46

1

According to Maslow, some needs grow stronger when unsatisfied. Maslow called these

Select one of the following:

  • Being needs

  • Deficiency needs

  • Growth needs

  • Primary needs

Explanation

Question 9 of 46

1

What is Rorschach’s test designed to measure?

Select one of the following:

  • Unconscious intentions

  • Brain size

  • Dreams

  • Conscious desires

Explanation

Question 10 of 46

1

The MMPI measures which of the following?

Select one of the following:

  • Mood

  • Physical concerns

  • Social attitudes

  • All of the answers

Explanation

Question 11 of 46

1

Katie Price is on her third marriage in her quest to find ideal love. When Katie Price demonstrates patterns of attention seeking and the excessive need for admiration from others, a Psychologist could be forgiven for thinking she may be suffering from

Select one of the following:

  • Paranoid personality disorder

  • Histrionic personality disorder

  • Narcissistic personality disorder

  • Anti-social personality disorder

Explanation

Question 12 of 46

1

In the film ‘Girl Interrupted’, Winona Rider plays Susanna Keysen who is admitted to a Psychiatric hospital after a nervous breakdown. The assumption that she tried to commit suicide via an overdose, together with her significant distress when her friend Lisa Rowe (played by Angelina Jolie) leaves the hospital could be taken as signs of which personality disorder?

Select one of the following:

  • Avoidant personality disorder

  • Anti-social personality disorder

  • Borderline personality disorder

  • Schizoid personality disorder

Explanation

Question 13 of 46

1

Which of the following helps define the term personality?

Select one of the following:

  • Characteristics that are typical for a person

  • Characteristics that make a person unique

  • Acting, thinking and feeling

  • All of the answers

Explanation

Question 14 of 46

1

According to Eysenck

Select one of the following:

  • The ARAS of the introvert provides a lot of arousal

  • The ARAS of the extrovert provides very little arousal

  • Both of the above

  • Neither of the first two answers

Explanation

Question 15 of 46

1

Cattell's method of gathering data in the absence of any pre-existing hypothesis is called the

Select one of the following:

  • Intuitive method

  • Orthogonal technique

  • Hypothetical-deductive method

  • Inductive method

Explanation

Question 16 of 46

1

The theories of Cattell and Eysenck rate

Select one of the following:

  • High on biological determinants of personality

  • High on teleology

  • Low on their ability to generate research

  • High on free will versus determinism

Explanation

Question 17 of 46

1

The earth mother, the hero, the devil, and the supreme being are all examples of

Select one of the following:

  • The Id’s most energizing, compulsive drives

  • Archetypal figures that exist in the collective unconscious

  • Symbols residing with an individual’s anima and animus

  • The Id’s persona drives

Explanation

Question 18 of 46

1

Compared with Freud, Adler

Select one of the following:

  • Had a more positive view towards women

  • Placed more emphasis on aggression

  • Relied more on dream interpretation in psychoanalysis

  • Was more likely to use hypnosis to treat patients

Explanation

Question 19 of 46

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A client, who is a painter and decorator, undergoes Freudian analysis wherein he describes the content of his dreams. He reveals that in his recent dreams he cannot reach the top of the ladder and has to keep climbing. The therapist interprets this as a dream about sexual intercourse. According to Freud, which of the following would be correct?

Select one of the following:

  • The client does not have a pleasure principle

  • The therapist is identifying the latent content of the dream

  • The therapist is identifying the manifest content of the dream

  • The client is repressing the manifest content of the dream

Explanation

Question 20 of 46

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Which psychosexual stage of development did Freud view as different from the others because an individual does not simply experience it but must achieve it?

Select one of the following:

  • Anal

  • Phallic

  • Oral

  • Genital

Explanation

Question 21 of 46

1

One advantage of the projective personality test is that they

Select one of the following:

  • Are easy to administer and grade by a computer

  • Have higher validity than self-report tests

  • Allow respondents more freedom for self-expression

  • Permit broader interpretations by the clinician

Explanation

Question 22 of 46

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Which of the following are not symptoms of borderline personality disorder?

Select one of the following:

  • Difficulty making and maintaining relationships

  • Risk taking, or doing things without thinking of potential consequences

  • A fear of being abandoned or rejected

  • Emotions which are consistent and stable

Explanation

Question 23 of 46

1

Self-respect, autonomy and achievement are all examples of

Select one of the following:

  • Physiological factors

  • Social factors

  • Internal esteem needs

  • External esteem needs

Explanation

Question 24 of 46

1

Rogers believed that all behaviour relates to one’s

Select one of the following:

  • Enhancement needs

  • Ideal self

  • Safety needs

  • Actualizing tendency

Explanation

Question 25 of 46

1

Rogers stated that humans need to be loved / liked. He referred to the emotional experience required for optimum development as

Select one of the following:

  • Positive regard

  • Conditional positive regard

  • Exceptional positive regard

  • Unconditional positive regard

Explanation

Question 26 of 46

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In Eysenck’s hierarchical model of personality which of the following is true?

Select one of the following:

  • Habitual responses make up specific responses, which make up traits

  • Specific responses make up habitual responses, which make up traits

  • Habitual responses make up specific responses, which make up personality types

  • Traits make up habitual responses, which make up specific responses

Explanation

Question 27 of 46

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The apparent lack of empathy and the tendency to exploit others for self-benefit, has lead psychologists to compare narcissistic personality disorder with which one of the following?

Select one of the following:

  • Histrionic Personality Disorder

  • Antisocial Personality Disorder

  • Paranoid Personality Disorder

  • Schizotypal

Explanation

Question 28 of 46

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Which of the following is NOT a weakness of many projective personality tests?

Select one of the following:

  • Poor predictive validity

  • Poor inter-rater reliability

  • Susceptible to faking good bias

  • Susceptible to poor incremental validity relative to personality inventories

Explanation

Question 29 of 46

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Psychic determinism can be defined as

Select one of the following:

  • The philosophy that everything people do in life is predetermined

  • The idea that everything happens in a person's mind - therefore everything a person thinks or does - has a cause that can be identified

  • The idea that everything we do resonates psychically with those around us

  • The psychological concept that the workings of the mind are rooted in specific chemical reactions in the brain

Explanation

Question 30 of 46

1

According to Freudian psychologists, playing rugby is an example of the most advanced and mature defence mechanism. What is it?

Select one of the following:

  • Projection

  • Conversion reaction

  • Sublimation

  • Rationalisation

Explanation

Question 31 of 46

1

Karen Horney disagreed with what fundamental part of Freud’s theory?

Select one of the following:

  • His implicit focus on irrational thinking

  • His emphasis on unconscious mental processes

  • His portrayal of women as damaged or incomplete men

  • His obsession with psychic conflict

Explanation

Question 32 of 46

1

Many neo-Freudians gave which part of the psyche a greater role in personality development than Freud did?

Select one of the following:

  • Conscious

  • Id

  • Ego

  • Super ego

Explanation

Question 33 of 46

1

Psychologists increasingly agree that supertraits may adequately describe the structure of personality

Select one of the following:

  • 9

  • 3

  • 7

  • 5

Explanation

Question 34 of 46

1

Which of the following statements characterises a “trait”? - A trait is a psychological feature that .......... humans have in common, albeit in different ........... .and for which individual differences are stable across .......... but not necessarily across different .................

Select one of the following:

  • All-ways-situations-time

  • Some-ways-time-conditions

  • Some-degrees-conditions-situations

  • All-degrees-time-situations

Explanation

Question 35 of 46

1

According to Adler, ___ is the “sole criterion of human values”

Select one of the following:

  • Productive work

  • Social interest

  • Self-interest

  • Religion

Explanation

Question 36 of 46

1

Which factor did Horney place less emphasis on in her approach?

Select one of the following:

  • Primal instincts

  • Biological instincts

  • Cultural instincts

  • Social instincts

Explanation

Question 37 of 46

1

What is a testing professional doing if they administer the same test to every test taker but score the test differently according to the race of the test taker?

Select one of the following:

  • Scaling

  • Standardising

  • Between-group norming

  • Within group norming

Explanation

Question 38 of 46

1

The most widely used and extensively researched objective personality test is the

Select one of the following:

  • 16PF

  • TAT

  • MMPI-2

  • EPQ

Explanation

Question 39 of 46

1

Which cluster of Axis II of the DSM do 'dramatic, emotional or erratic' disorders belong in?

Select one of the following:

  • A

  • B

  • C

  • D

Explanation

Question 40 of 46

1

In the movie ‘Silence of the Lambs’, Anthony Hopkins’ character demonstrates a superficial charm, a lack of guilt and an indifference to the suffering of others. These are hallmark characteristics of which personality disorder?

Select one of the following:

  • Paranoid personality disorder

  • Dissociative identity disorder

  • Schizoid

  • Anti-social personality disorder

Explanation

Question 41 of 46

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An Individual with Dependent Personality Disorder will NOT exhibit which of the following?

Select one of the following:

  • Aggressive behaviour

  • Submissive and clinging behaviour

  • Have great difficulties making everyday decisions

  • Passive behaviour

Explanation

Question 42 of 46

1

Dr Huws asks Kyle to complete a depression inventory, answering questions about how sad he has felt in recent weeks. She then asks him to look at a few pictures and to tell a story about what the characters may be thinking and doing. (The picture is otherwise ambiguous.) The depression inventory is an example of a _____, and the tell-a-story task is an example of a _____.

Select one of the following:

  • Self- report measure; behavioural assessment

  • Behavioural assessment; self-report measure

  • Projective test; behavioural assessment

  • Self-report measure; projective test

Explanation

Question 43 of 46

1

Talkative vs quiet; frank or open vs secretive; adventurous vs cautious; sociable vs reclusive - these traits describe which dimension personality?

Select one of the following:

  • Agreeableness

  • Conscientiousness

  • Emotional stability

  • Extraversion

Explanation

Question 44 of 46

1

Which of the following is not considered to be a risk factor for personality disorders

Select one of the following:

  • Living in inner cities

  • Low economic class

  • Gender

  • Being a young adult

Explanation

Question 45 of 46

1

Carl Rogers finally developed

Select one of the following:

  • Learner centered therapy

  • Client centered therapy

  • Self-centered therapy

  • Person centered therapy

Explanation

Question 46 of 46

1

In clinical practice, a TAT examiner administers

Select one of the following:

  • a least three cards

  • ten cards

  • twenty cards

  • as many as he or she cares to administer

Explanation

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