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Lectures 7-10: Personality (ch 15)

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Chris Astill
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Question 1

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Identical twins reared together tend to be about as similar in their personality traits as identical twins reared apart.
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  • True
  • False

Question 2

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Environmental factors shared among members of the same family play an important role in the causes of most personality traits in adulthood.
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  • True
  • False

Question 3

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Birth order is weakly related to most personality traits.
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  • True
  • False

Question 4

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Freud believed that sex was the only important drive in personality.
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  • True
  • False

Question 5

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Freudians would say that most persons with very high opinions of themselves have overdeveloped egos.
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  • True
  • False

Question 6

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According to Freudians, a given dream symbol (such as a snake) does not have the same underlying meaning for every dreamer.
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  • True
  • False

Question 7

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According to Freud, a person who is orally fixated would be likely to drink excessively.
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  • True
  • False

Question 8

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One strength of Freudian theory is that many of its predictions are hard to disprove.
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  • True
  • False

Question 9

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Most neo-Freudian therapists, such as Adler, placed less emphasis on social influences on personality development than did Freud.
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  • True
  • False

Question 10

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For radical behaviourists, our personalities are bundles of habits influenced by learning.
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  • True
  • False

Question 11

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Radical behaviourists argue that we are sometimes 'unconscious' of the true causes of our behaviour.
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  • True
  • False

Question 12

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Social learning theorists believe that observational learning is a key form of learning in addition to classical and operant conditioning.
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  • True
  • False

Question 13

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According to social learning theorists, individuals with an internal locus of control are more prone to depression than individuals with an external locus of control.
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  • True
  • False

Question 14

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According to Rogers, human nature is inherently positive.
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  • True
  • False

Question 15

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Rogers believed that only severely disturbed people aquire conditions of worth.
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  • True
  • False

Question 16

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Maslow claimed that almost all self-actualised individuals are sociable and easy to get along with.
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  • True
  • False

Question 17

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Many claims of humanistic models are difficult to test.
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  • True
  • False

Question 18

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One limitation of the big five model is that researchers have identified these traits only in American culture.
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  • True
  • False

Question 19

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Research demonstrates that after late childhood, the levels of most personality traits virtually never change over the life span.
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  • True
  • False

Question 20

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Personality traits typically predict behaviour in a single situation with high levels of accuracy.
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  • True
  • False

Question 21

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According to Eysenck, extraverts tend to be less aroused than introverts.
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  • True
  • False

Question 22

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Items with low face validity tend to be especially easy for respondents to fake.
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  • True
  • False

Question 23

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Simple formulas that can be programmed into computers yeild MMPI-2 interpretations equal or superior to those of experienced clinicians.
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  • True
  • False

Question 24

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Adding the Rorschach Inkblot Test to other measures in a test battery sometimes produces significant decreases in validity.
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  • True
  • False

Question 25

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The more detailed and specific an astrological horoscope is about someone's personality traits, the more likely that person will perceive it as accurate.
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  • True
  • False

Question 26

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Researchers suggest that although students sometimes fall victim to illusory correlation, experienced clinicians do not.
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  • True
  • False
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