Which of the following approaches to personality is least deterministic?

Related Mcqs:

1. Who has given the “Deterministic or Single Factor Theory”?

   A. Emile Durkheim
   B. Talcott Parsons
   C. Karl Marx
   D. August Comte

2. Who has given the “Deterministic or single Factor Theory”?

   A. Emile Durkheim
   B. Talcott Parsons
   C. Karl Marx
   D. August Comte

3. 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

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. 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

8. 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

9. Which one of the following approaches tries to analyze human behaviour in terms of stimulus-response units acquired through the process of learning, mainly through instrumental conditioning ?

   A. Cognitive Approach
   B. Dynamic and Psychoanalytic Approach
   C. Stimulus-Response Behaviouristic Approach
   D. Existential Approach

10. What are the two major approaches to treatment of psychological disorders?
    1: Biological.
    2: Medical.
    3: Chemical.
    4: Psychological

    A. 1 & 2
    B. 2 & 3
    C. 2 & 4
    D. 1 & 4