A. Kundu C.L.
B. Catell R.B.
C. Skinner
D. None of these
Related Mcqs:
- Which theory of gender-typing suggests that people understand and classify their own behavior and personality traits in terms of masculine and feminine categories?
A. social learning theory
B. psychoanalytical theory
C. evolutionary theory
D. gender schema theory - Which of the following traits is not part of the five-factor model of personality?
A. Openness
B. Anxiety
C. Extraversion
D. Agreeableness - 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 - 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 - When the host doesn’t recall something others say he/she done because another personality did it, what is that usually referred to by the MPD?
A. spells
B. black outs
C. lost time
D. all of these - Which of the following is true of traits?
A. Traits are descriptors used to label personality
B. Sheldon (1974) categorized people according to four body types
C. Modern theorists view traits as discrete rather than continuous entities
D. According to trait theorists, categorizing people into separate groups of ‘sociable’ versus ‘unsociable’ is extremely useful
