A rare condition in which separate personalities exist in the same person is called:

Related Mcqs:

1. Which of the following do MPDs sometimes display when switching personalities?

   A. physical differences
   B. speech differences
   C. both
   D. None of these

2. Freud stressed the role of _______ in shaping our personalities.

   A. the structure of the mind
   B. the function of our behaviors
   C. our history of rewards and punishments
   D. the unconscious

3. Which of the following are NOT necessarily characteristics of an authoritarian personality? people with authoritarian personalities tend to:
   1.Have experienced harsh family rearing strategies.
   2.Hate their parents.
   3.Idolize power figures.
   4.Strive for a changing world order.

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

4. In the Nurture Assumption, Judith Harris argues that the evidence indicates that family environment has_______on children’s personalities.

   A. largely positive effects
   B. largely negative effects
   C. surprisingly little effect
   D. a powerful effect

5. Jamil and Qasim are identical twins, reared in different homes after their birth, due to the death of their parents. They are nineteen years of age and have personalities that differ sharply from each other. The reason of this difference in personality is most likely due to:

   A. the two having identical genotypes
   B. the environment
   C. heredity
   D. brain chemistry differences

6. A person behavior is usually attributed to external causes when all but one of the following conditions exist ____________?

   A. Others act in the same way
   B. The person acts the same way at other times
   C. The person acts differently in other situations
   D. The person seems aware of the environment

7. The perception of a relationship between two variables that does not actually exist is called ___________?

   A. the hindsight bias
   B. the false consensus effect
   C. an illusion of control
   D. illusory correlation

8. A brain tumor in the hippocampus of the brain would impair a person’s ability to learn new things while leaving their old memories intact. This condition is known as _________________?

   A. retroactive inhibition
   B. anterograde amnesia
   C. proactive inhibition
   D. retrograde amnesia

9. The efficiency of memory can be increased if we organize information so that the amount of information in each unit increases while the number of separate units decreases. This process is called _________________?

   A. chunking
   B. rehearsal
   C. encoding
   D. retrieval

10. A visual scene can be separated into two parts, the ______________ which is the object that commands our attention, and the ____________ which seems to exist continuously behind the object?

    A. figure, ground
    B. good form, good continuation
    C. ground, background
    D. good form, circumscription