A person who is careless and disorganized most clearly ranks low on the Big Five trait dimension of:

Related Mcqs:

1. Disorganized schizophrenia is characterized by?

   A. attacks of fear or panic
   B. silliness, laughter, and bizarre behavior
   C. delusions of persecution
   D. severe depression

2. The trait of optimism is most closely related to a strong sense of:

   A. Conditional positive regard
   B. personal control
   C. gender identity
   D. reciprocal determinism

3. What do psychologists mean by the term trait-situation interaction?

   A. Situations change traits
   B. Situations create new traits
   C. Traits determine situations
   D. Situations affect how traits are exhibited

4. To understand personality, trait theorists attempt to:

   A. create traits that fit people
   B. increase the number of basic traits that have been identified
   C. classify traits and discover how they are related to behavior
   D. reduce the common traits to measures of temperament

5. Who developed a model of personality based on 16 trait dimensions?

   A. Allport
   B. Rogers
   C. Freud
   D. Cattell

6. Aima believes that she will succeed in business if she works hard and carefully manages her time. Her belief most clearly illustrates:

   A. reciprocal determinism
   B. an internal locus of control
   C. reaction formation
   D. the self-reference phenomenon

7. Maslow most clearly interjected his own personal values into his study of self-actualized individuals by:

   A. using projective tests to assess their motives
   B. using free association and dream analysis
   C. interpreting their flattering self-description as a self-serving bias
   D. selectively studying people with qualities he admired

8. After experiencing inescapable brutalities as a prisoner in a Nazi concentration camp, Mr. Sternberg became apathetic, stopped eating, and gave up all efforts to physically survive the ordeal. Mr. Sternberg’s reaction most clearly illustrates:

   A. learned helplessness
   B. an internal locus of control
   C. an inferiority complex
   D. the self-reference phenomenon

9. Who defined ‘culture trait’ as a repeatedly irreducible unit of learned behaviour pattern or material product there of?

   A. Clark Wissler
   B. K. Popper
   C. Frazer
   D. Hoebel

10. When a gene is______the trait it controls will be present every time the gene is present.

    A. recessive
    B. dominant
    C. polygenic
    D. sex-linked