A. unconditional positive regard
B. attributional style
C. the spotlight effect
D. self-serving bias
Related Mcqs:
- Saima often has temper tantrums and pouts when she can’t have her own away. She often behaves impulsively and becomes extremely impatient if she can’t have the things that she wants immediately. According to Freud’s view of the personality, Saima’s personality appears to be dominated by:
A. her id
B. her alter ego
C. her ego
D. reaction formation - Farida was informed by a professional palm reader. “You generally communicate openly with others, but you have certain dark secrets that even your closest friends could never guess.” The fact that Farida was impressed by the palm reader’s insight into her personality best illustrates:
A. the Barnum effect
B. the spotlight effect
C. the self-reference phenomenon
D. unconditional positive regard - Personality theorists believe there may be______factors or very board dimensions that make up a person’s personality.
A. 3
B. 10
C. 7
D. 5 - The strongest support for the theory that personality is heavily influenced by genetics is provided by strong personality similarity between:
A. identical twins reared together
B. identical twins reared apart
C. fraternal twins reared together
D. non-twins reared together - If you know the personality of an identical twin, you can expect the personality of the other twin to be:
A. unrelated
B. similar
C. identical
D. conflicting - The nomothetic approach to personality emphasizes that people are_______whereas the idiographic approach to personality emphasizes that people are_______.
A. Introverts: extroverts
B. Extroverts; introverts
C. Similar; unique
D. Unique; similar - According to Mischel and Shoda’s (1995) cognitive-effective units in the personality system, what category refers to how processes such as selective attention, interpretation, and categorization of events affect personality?
A. Competencies
B. Goals and values
C. Affects
D. Encodings - Below are various descriptions of some of the most important components in the human nervous system-but only one is correct. Please highlight it:
A. The central nervous system includes the nerves through which the central nervous system interacts with the rest of the body
B. The peripheral nervous system includes the brain and the spinal cord
C. Afferent or sensory nerves carry information to the central nervous system from sensory neurons and regulate glandular secretion
D. Efferent or motor nerves extend out from the central nervous system to the organs - The McGurk effect best illustrates:
A. Color constancy
B. Sensory interaction
C. The rubber-hand illusion
D. Phantom limb sensations - The potential during which the inner membrane surface becomes more positive than the outside is called:
A. Resting membrane potential
B. Threshold stimulus
C. Active membrane potential
D. None of these
