In class, the psychological definition of personality is one’s reaction to the environment as determined by:

Related Mcqs:

1. Which are true of the diathesis-stress model of mental illness?Please identify all correct answers.
   1: When an enduring vulnerability factor in a person is coupled with a recent stressor, it results in psychological disorder.
   2: Only one of the diathesis or stressor needs to be present for symptoms of the psychological disorder to occur.
   3: Both the diathesis and the stressor must be present to lead the symptoms of the psychological disorder.
   4: Diathesis and stressors have specific definitions.

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

2. Select the TWO correct statements from those below with regard to psychological research:
   1.You can fully understand the result of an IQ test without knowing anything about intelligence testing and standard scores.
   2. if two things are correlated this signifies that one is the cause of the other.
   3. A good knowledge of psychological research methods allows you to avoid making the mistakes that journalists politicians and many others make because they lack the necessary conceptual understanding.
   4. In most countries, in order to become a psychologist, you will be required to conduct a piece of psychological research.

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

3. Leyton suggested that members are symbolic of structural discontent – at different times in history a (social) class comes under treat from another (social) class under treat from another social class and feel dissatisfaction. What did he call this?

   A. Depressive
   B. Over- controlled repressors
   C. Paranoid- aggression
   D. Homicidal protest

4. 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

5. 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

6. 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

7. 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

8. 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

9. 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

10. 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