The Myers-Briggs Type Indicator classifies people according to personality types identified by:

Related Mcqs:

1. 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

2. 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

3. 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

4. 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

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

6. 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

7. Viewing people from different groups as individuals and viewing people from different subgroups (such as Scots and English) as members of a single superordinate group represent which two types of prejudice reduction strategies?

   A. Intergroup contact
   B. Decategorization
   C. Recategorization
   D. a and b
   E. b and c

8. Viewing people from different groups as individuals and viewing people from different subgroups(such as Scots and English) as members of a single superordinate group represent which two types of prejudice reduction strategies?

   A. Intergroup contact
   B. Decategorization
   C. Recategorization
   D. a and b
   E. b and c

9. Psychologists who are interested in the perception of the motion, part-whole relationships and in how people judge size were identified with what school of psychology?

   A. psychoanalytic
   B. gestalt
   C. biological
   D. structural

10. In people whose corpus callosum has not been severed verbal stimuli are identified more quickly and accurately:

    A. when sent to the right hemisphere first
    B. when sent to the left hemisphere first
    C. when presented to the left visual field
    D. when presented auditorily rather than visually